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things. As it was said by an Irish poet "We are men by anguish taught to distinguish false from true".
Therefore, we have to trust the 'Pure light' to understand the Reality. So Atman is mostly not whatever people say something very good. That is why, in our system, Atman is fixed at a point in the right side of the chest. Now, what is it that the word Atman means. It is a particular consciousness of thinking capacity - a capacity, a thinking in terms of particulars.
What is Brahman? Mind - Man - it thinks in terms of Cosmos. Some minds do not think in terms of particulars. They think in terms of all alone, not of parts. And the great prophecy of the Vedic seer was that in fact these two are one. The Atman cannot exist without the mind and the mind cannot exist without the Atman.
The total consciousness is necessary to understand the particular, and the particular knowledge is absolutely necessary for the whole. The two ways of knowing - one proceeding from the cosmic to the particular, the other aspiring from the particular to the Cosmic. Now, here, two words have come. (I know a little bit of philology.)
Let us take another word - the word 'Prana'. What is Prana? Prana is that by which everything lives. And most things are living, some of them non- living, some of them are quarter-living, some of them are half-living. There are degrees of living. We cannot say that we are living fully. If you are living fully, you would not have come here. Because we have found that our living is not good, and in fact we are dead in some parts of our being we want the full life. And, what can that mean? We want life to feed us in every part of our way. And this life can only be given by the Ultimate Reality, because the Ultimate Reality sustains the so called 'non-living' by just becoming and flowing towards it. You think that there is no life at all in the inorganic material. Thought has become gross. But if you can somehow break that particular grossness of matter, you will find that it releases thought. So, this is the experience of matter or the atom. This experience of an atom on the one side and Atman on the other side shows that if you can introduce this force into anything it becomes alive. So master says this offering of the spiritual and highest consciousness sometimes makes it grow into greater sensitiveness and awareness of the life. Atom is not conscious