अङ्गुष्ठमात्रः पुरुषोऽन्तरात्मा
सदा जनानां हृदये संनिविष्टः ।
तं स्वाच्छरीरात्प्रवृहे
न्मुञ्जादिवेषीकां धैर्येण ।
तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतं
तं विद्याच्छुक्रममृतमिति ॥ १७ ॥
ANGUSTMATRAHA PURUSHAHA ANTARATMA
SADA JANAANAM RHYUDAYE SANUVISHTAHA
TAM SWATA SGARIRAT PRAVRUHET
MUNJAT IV ISHIKAM DHAIRYEN
TAM VIDYAT SHUKRAM AMRUTAM
TAM VIDYAT SHUKRAM AMRUTAM ITI ||17
PURUSHA IS THE SIZE OF THUMB AND RESIDED IN HEART. OF ALL LIVING BEINGS,
ONE SHOULD SEPERATE HIM FROM THE BODY WITH COURAGE AS ONE DOES WITH
STALK FROM THE GRASS REED , ONE SHOULD KNOW HIM AS PURE AND IMMORTAL ||17
This one may look like the one in past . There is some contradiction in this one and other ones though. In past we are told that the SELF or Brahman is not limited by DESH- KAL VASTU the one that are for everything else in this mortal world. DESH is location as mentioned in past . Everything here has location limitation. If I am HERE , then I am not there. That does not happen to SELF. The KAL is time limitation. I am here today and I will not be there when I die. I age and get older and change . The SELF does not . And lastly VASTU which is identity. I am ME and not YOU or a table or a glass. So, if SELF does not have these limitations ,then how come we are told that SELF IS SIZE OE FORM OF THUMB AND IT IS LOCATED IN GTHE HEART? The answer is that this is for US who cannot think of shapeless -timeless limitless SELF to concentrate upon. We also have great difficulty in understanding that SELF is separate from physical body and mind and intellect and ego. One needs courage to separate the SELF from what we know as US .We are again told that the SELF is PURE and IMMORTAL.
