244 VIVEKACHUDAMANI
ranyakalV. v. 13: "As a lump of salt is without interior or exterior, whole, one homogeneous salt mass, so is verily this Alinan, O Maitreyi, the Embodiment of Knowledge which assumes dif- ferentiations through contact with the elements and ceases to have them when these elements are des- troyed (by liluinination ). After this dissolution It has no distinct name." It should be noted that the passage in the original is so worded as to confuse an ordinary enquirer, as it did Maitreyi actually. Then Yajnavalkya had to explain that he meant only the destruction of the snpervetiing adjuncts, and not that of the Atman— the Eternal Reality — which ever is.
Supervening adjuncts — Such as water in which the sun is reflected, or the rose which casts its reflection on the crvsial, or the air which produces a bubble on the smfacc of water. When these Upadhis are removed th<-' special differentiations cease to exist, but the piimip.il thing remains as it was. ]
562. The Sruti passage, * 'Verily is this Atman immortal, nry dear,*' uientioiis tb« immortality of the Atman in the midst of perishable things that are subject to modi- ^cation.
[ ^;j//z—Biihad^ianyaka IV. v. 14; "Verily \%
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