141 - Purushottama – The Supreme Divine Truth| Swami Tattwamayananda

15th Chapter: Verses 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20<br /><br />The 15th chapter discusses the idea of immanence, transcendence and omnipresence of the Absolute Reality. The Absolute Reality is beyond verbalization and description – it can only be experienced.<br /><br />15th verse: “This divine principle is present as the indweller in every living being in this world. It manifests as memory, knowledge, ignorance, and forgetfulness. It is the one that is described and explored in all scriptures. It is the one to be known.”<br /><br />16th verse: “There are two kinds of beings in this world: First, is <i>ksharah</i>, which is the perishable. Second, is <i>aksharah</i>, which is imperishable. <i>Ksharah</i> is this phenomenal world, which comes and goes. <i>Aksharah</i> is the <i>jivatma</i>, present as the indweller in all beings, and is imperishable.”<br /><br />The anvil is installed on the ground and does not move. On top of it, metal pieces are hammered and shaped. Metal pieces undergo change – the anvil doesn’t. The <i>jivatma</i> is like the anvil and does not change – it assumes new bodies from birth to birth.<br /><br />The 8th verse of the 15th chapter discusses transmigration of the soul. It says: “When this body is destroyed, the soul within is not destroyed. It leaves the body behind and acquires a new body taking with it the senses and the mind, just like the wind carries the scent away with it.”<br /><br />We are born with the baggage of past <i>samskaras</i> (tendencies) – we cannot disown them. We collect these tendencies in our <i>Antahkarana</i> through actions involving the senses and the mind. When the body is cremated, the physical senses are gone, but the <i>Antahkarana</i> is retained. It accompanies the <i>jivatma </i>when it takes a new body.<br /><br />We come out of the wheel of <i>samsara</i> – birth, old age, death, rebirth – when we dehypnotize ourselves into knowing that we are not this body, and we realize our true identity as<i> Atman</i>.<br /><br />17th verse: “<i>Purushottama </i>is t