"The atman, in the knowledge of which emancipation consists, is nothing else than the knowing subject in us. For this reason it is not knowable by the grace the senses, "ne'ter canst thou see the seer of seeing. It cannot, like an object, be placed before us and examined; knowledge of it cannot be obtained at will, and even searching in the Scripture is not enough to attain this knowledge, but merely serves to remove obstacles. Whether the atman is known or not depends, as does the perception of every object, on one fact, whether it manifests itself to us; depends consequently on the atman itself. Hence in the lower knowledge, which opposes the atman to our own self as a personal god and worships it."
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