Great Throughts Treasury

"The Pantheistic Self - [Question:] Who is this one? [Answer:] We worship him as the Self (?tman). [Question:] Which one3 is the Self? [Answer:] [He] whereby one sees, or whereby one hears, or whereby one smells odors, or whereby one articulates speech, or whereby one discriminates the sweet and the unsweet; that which is heart (h?daya) and mind (manas)?that is, consciousness (sa?j¤?na), perception (?j¤?na), discrimination (vij¤?na), intelligence (praj¤?na), wisdom (medhas), insight (d???i), steadfastness (dh?ti), thought (mati), thoughtfulness (man???), impulse (j?ti), memory (sm?ti), conception (sa?kalpa), purpose (kratu), life (asu), desire (k?ma), will (va?a). All these indeed, are appellations of intelligence (praj¤?na)."

"And the course of the outer Soul (bahir-?tman) is measured by the course of the inner Soul (antar-?tman). For thus has it been said: ?Now, that golden Person who is within the sun, who looks down upon this earth from his golden place, is even He who dwells within the lotus of the heart and eats food."

"In the beginning, ?tman (Self, Soul), verily, one only, was here1?no other blinking thing whatever. He bethought himself: ?Let me now create worlds. He created these worlds: water (ambhas), light-rays (mar?ci), death (mara), the waters (ap). Yon is the water, above the heaven; the heaven is its support. The light-rays are the atmosphere; death, the earth; what is underneath, the waters. He bethought himself: ?Here now are worlds. Let me now create world-guardians.? Right (eva) from the waters he drew forth and shaped (ûm?rch) a person."