understands nothing else-that is the Infinite. A knower is limited by the object of knowledge and the act of knowing. That is called infinite which is not limited by anything else. INFINITY : The above position is further strengthened by the qualifying word Anantam, Infinity. It is not the knower or the agent of knowing, but Knowledge itself. In order to remove this misapprehension, Brahman is qualified by the 'word Jnanam, which denotes that Brahman is Knowledge, that is to say, absolute awareness or intelligence. Further, being a substance, like clay, It may be material in nature. KNOWLEDGE : If Brahman is the cause, it may be contended, It also is the agent. From this it follows that Brahman, being the cause, in real. Although articles made of clay undergo change in regard to name and form, their cause, the clay, remains the same and is therefore called real. Thus an effect is called unreal, for it does not possess an unchanging nature. The real is the opposite of the unreal, which is changeable. REALITY: A thing is called real if it always remains the same and never deviates from what has been proved to be its true nature. These three adjuncts are independent of one another and directly connected with Brahman that is to say, Brahman is Satyam, Brahman is Jnanam, and Brahman is Anantam. The three words Reality (Satyam), Knowledge (Jnanam), Infinity (Anantam) are the qualifying adjuncts of the substratum Brahman. INFINITY: The words "Brahman, which is Reality, Knowledge, and Infinity" give the complete definition of Brahman. The text indicates the fruit of the Knowledge of Brahman, which is the destruction of ignorance and the complete cessation of the transmigratory existence. When, however, his ignorance is destroyed, he discovers that his true nature is Brahman and he is said to have attained Brahman. Thus, though Brahman is the real self of the embodied creature, It remains, as it were, un-attained by him. Though the individual soul is one with Brahman, on account of ignorance it identifies itself with the limited physical body and thus regards itself as other than Brahman. The reply is that the word attains is here used in a figurative sense. Only a limited entity can attain another limited entity.
9.)ĪTTAINS THE SUPREME.: It may be asked how, if Brahman is the all-pervading Reality and the inmost essence of all, It can be attained or reached. Compare: "He who knows the Supreme Brahman verily becomes Brahman." (Mu. The knower of Brahman attains Brahman because through knowing a certain thing the knower does not attain something else. Etymologically, the word Brahman means greatest. : The word Supreme denotes Brahman Itself. This indeed is his head, this is his right wing, this is his left wing, this is his body (atman), this support is his tail. He, that man, verily consists of the essence of food. he, being one with the omniscient Brahman,įrom that Atman (Brahman) was born akasa from akasa, air from air, fire from fire, water from water, earth from earth, herbs from herbs, food from food, man. On the above, the following mantra (Rik) is recorded:
He who knows Brahman attains the Supreme.
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