Atman - Unattached

Sankara's Vivek Chudamani:: Atman - Unattached(189-91)

• The  Atman, which  is  knowledge Absolute,  shines   within   the  Pranas,  in  the  heart.Though it  is  immutable, It becomes the doer  and  the  experiencer  because of its   superimposition (the intellectual-sheath) (189)
• The  Atman, although it is the Self in  every   existing thing, assumes  the  limitations of the intellect  and  wrongly  identifying  with   this entirely  false  entity,  It considers Itself  as  something different..  like the  mud- pots  from the  mud of which  they  are made(190)
• Even  though the supreme Self is by  nature perfect and ever unchanging, due to the  relationship  with  superimpositions,It assumes the characteristics of these superimpositions and  seems   to act just as the  equipment tdo...  like the changeless fire assuming the  forms of the iron-pieces which   it turns  red-hot(191)

Ved  Prakash