ATMA BODHAM “KNOWLEDGE of the SELF”: Mantram - 61 - Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya.
========================================================================================= Thursday 22, Jul 2024 05:30. (68 Slogas in 9 Chapters) Chapter 8. Slogas - 54-67 (14 no.) “Reveling in FREEDOM” The BLISS of Realisation B. ATTRIBUTES OF BRAHMAN: (56-62) ====================================================================================== Slogam - 61: The Self-luminous Brahman: 1 Yad bhaasaa bhaasyate arkaadi = By the light of which the sun, etc, are illumined; 2 bhaasyaih yah tu na bhaasyate; = but which is not illumined by those luminous orbs; 3 yena sarvam idam bhaati = that by which all this shines – 4 tat brahma iti ava-dhaarayet. = realize That to be Brahman. =========================================================================================== We are now entering the concluding phase of the text. The nature of the Self is so completely different from anything that we experience in this physical world, that we can hardly reach it through words. Yet that is w