Track By Tracks: Maheshvara - Om Tat Sat (2024)

1. Eternal Soul:

“The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence. This atomic soul floats in the five kinds of air [prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, samāna, and udāna], is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities. When the soul is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material air, its spiritual influence is exhibited.” (Muṇḍ. 3.1.9)

For the soul, there is never birth or death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be.

He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

2. Om Tat Sat:

Chapter 17. The Divisions of Faith From the beginning of creation, the three syllables-om tat have been used to indicate the Supreme Absolute Truth [Brahman]. They were uttered by Brahmanas while chanting Vedic hymns and during sacrifices, for the satisfaction of the Supreme. Thus the transcendentalists undertake sacrifices, charities, and penances, beginning always with om, to attain the Supreme.

Chapter 2. Contents of the Gita Summarized

3. Sense Perception:

As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change. O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

4. Seers of The Truth:

Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent there is no endurance, and of the existent, there is no cessation. These Seers have concluded by studying the nature of both. Know that which pervades the entire body is indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul.

Only the material body of the indestructible, immeasurable, and eternal living entity is subject to destruction; therefore, fight, 0 descendant of Bharata.

5. Difference of Understanding:

Some look on the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all.

6. 06 The Self Slays Not nor The Slain:

He who thinks that the living entity is the slayer or that he is slain does not understand. One who is in knowledge knows that the self-slays • not nor is slain.

"Both the Supersoul (Paramatma) and the atomic soul (jivatma) are situated on the same tree of the body within the same heart of the living being, and only one who has become free from all material desires, as well as lamentations, can, by the grace of the Supreme, understand the glories of the soul."

7. Spiritual Spark:

The soul can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can he be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.

This individual soul is unbreakable and. insoluble and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, all-pervading, unchangeable, immovable, and eternally the same.

It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable, immutable, and unchangeable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body.

8. Interim State:

If, however, you think that the soul is perpetually born and always dies, still you have no reason to lament, 0 mighty-armed.

For one who has taken his birth, death is certain; and for one who is dead, birth is certain. Therefore, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament.

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?