| 24.
He cannot be cut, nor burnt, nor wetted, nor dried up. He is everlasting,
allpervading stable, firm and eternal,Because the mutually destructive objectsnamely,
swords and the likecannot destroy the Self, therefore He is overlasting.
Because everlasting, He is allpervading. Because allpervading, He is stable
like a pillar. Because stable, the Self is firm. Wherefore He is eternal,
not produced out of any cause, not new.No charge of tautology can be brought
against the verses (21- 24) on the ground that in the eternality and the
immutability of the Self have been taught and that what has been said regarding
the Self in these verses (21 - 24) adds nothing to what was taught in that
one verse,something being repeated verbatim, and something more being repeated
in idea. Since the Self is a thing very difficult to understand, the Lord
Vasudeva again and again introduces the subject and describes the same thing
in other words, so that in some way or other the truth may be grasped by
the intellect of the mortals (samsarins) and thus the cessation of their
samsara may be brought about. No room for grief. |
