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undergo any change, being eternal. It does not cease to exist even when this body is destroyed, like the sky in a jar (after it is broken) , for It is independent. [ This Sloka refers to the six states enumerated by Yaska, which overtake every being, such as birth, existence etc. The Atman is above all change. ]
135. The Supreme Self, different from the Prakriti and its modifications, of the essence of Pure Knowledge, and Absolute, directly manifests this entire gross and subtle universe, in the waking and other states, as the substratum of the persistent sense of egoism and manifests Itself as the Witness of Buddhi, the determinative
faculty.
\ Prakrifi—ihQ Mother of the entire manifested universe.
Gross and subile universe— \.\iQ world of matter and thought.
The Witness of Buddhi — all actions that we seem to be doing are really done by Buddhi, while the Self ever stands aloof , the only Absolute
Entity. ]
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