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ATMA BODHAM “KNOWLEDGE of the SELF” : Mantram - 56 - Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya.

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================================================================ Friday,  01 Dec 2023 05:30. (68 Slogas in 9 Chapters) Chapter 8 Slogas - 54-67 (14 no.) “Revelling in FREEDOM” The BLISS of Realisation B. ATTRIBUTES OF BRAHMAN: (56-62) Slogam - 56: The Infinite, Eternal and Non-Dual Reality ============================================================== Slogam - 56: The Infinite, Eternal and Non-Dual Reality 1  Tiryak oordhvam adhah poornam; = That which pervades all the quarters, above and below; which is Existence 2  sac-chid-aanandam advayam; = Consciousness-Bliss Absolute, and Non-dual; 3  anantam nityam ekam yat; = which is Infinite, Eternal, the One alone;  4  tat brahma iti avadhaarayet. = realize That to be Brahman. ================================================================ Nothing said in these last 15  slogas is new. It is sheer poetical brilliance. The author  is simply putting on the icing to the cake he has baked so meticulously in the earlier part of  the book. Well,