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and remain, so likewise the man established in the Self; the waves of the world in which he dwells do not destroy him.
"He who sees the Lord Supreme abiding equally in all transitory beings, the Imperishable in the things that perish-he truly sees. And when he beholds the manilold existences all centered in that One, expanding from that One, he then becomes that Brahman." 129
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THE SELF of the Vedic Āryan tradition, the Universal Being, dwells in the individual and is what gives him life. It transcends both the gross organism of his body and the subtle organism of his psyche, las no sense organs of its own through which to act and experience, and yet is the very life-force that enables him to act at all. This paradoxical interrelationship between the phenomenal creature and his anonymous, imperishable nucleus, slırouded by the perishable shcaths, is expressed in riddles and enigmatical stanzas reminiscent of our own nursery rhymes.
The blind one found the jewel; The one without fingers picked it up; The one with no neck put it on; And the one with no voice gave it praise. 180
The owner of the body has no eyes, no hands, no neck, no voice, yet accomplishes everything through the instrument of
129 1b. 13. 27, 30. 180 Taittiriya Aranyaka 1. 11.5.
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