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BRAHMANISM
volved in worldly sufferings, plcasures, and pursuits, but has be. comc, now and forever, frce.
Alman: the Controller IVithin
The Self-that thread by which this world and the other world and all things are tied together" 30-is the timeless controller within. "He dwells in the breath, he is within the brcath; the breath, however, does not know him: the breath is his body, he controls the breath froin within. Ile dwells in the mind, he is within the mind; the mind, however, ducs not know him: the mind is his body, he controls the mind from within." He is likewise within speech, the eye, the ear, the skin, the understanding, and the semen. Morcover, in like manner, he is within the elcments of the macrocosm. “This Sels dwells in the element earth and controls it from within: thc carth is his body"; yet the carth is unaware of this principle inherent in its atoms. Earth is the most tangible of the five clenients; but in water, fire, and air, and in ether (the most subtle of the five), the Self is equally unknown. “The Self dwells in all beings, he is within all beings; the beings, however, do not know him: all beings are his body, hc controls all beings from within. He is unscen, yet sceing; unhcard, yet hcaring; untliought-of, and yet 'the thinker' (mantar). Ile is unknown, and yet the knower (vijñātar, the inner principle of awarcness). There is no seer but him, no one to hear but him, no one thinking, no one aware but him. He is the Self, the Ruler within, the One Immortal.” 81 The Self, that is to say, is the actual agent of every sense and thinking process, the organs merely serving him as instruments.
"That gigantic divine Being is by nature inconceivable. It appears to be more subtle than the subtlest, much farther off than the farthest, yet here, quite near-deposited right here, within
80 Brhadaranyaka Upanişad 3. 7. 1. 81 Ib. 3. 7. (cf. Hume, op. cit., pp. 114-117).
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