"Divine Spark: Self( Atma) Within yourself"

1. Often it happens that we keep on desperately searching for a key or an important paper all over the room until somebody points out to us, either the key in our own hands, or the paper that is just in front of us on the table.

 

2. The knowledge, that the key that I was searching for is in my own hand, is a knowledge that gives me back the key that I had lost.

 

 

3. When we say that by 'knowing the thing, we 'reach'  the thing known, we only mean that the thing was already with us, and yet, it was screened off  from us temporarily  by our own ignorance of it.

 

 

4.  The ignorance of it is removed by our knowledge of it; and the thing that was already with us becomes available for our own experience.

 

 

5. Similarly, he who realises  that Divine Spark, the Self( Atma) within himself, comes to know it, in the sense that he rediscovers that which was already within him, but which lay unfortunately, veiled from him by his own ignorance. 

 

 

6. Taittiriya Upanishad: Chapter-2, Section-1, Mantram-1.