This book Atma Bodha or knowledge of Self (Atma) is an outcome of deep thinking about why we are born and living, influencing or getting influenced by every one around us, developing relations with them both physically and mentally, worrying for them and either losing them or leaving them temporarily due to life cycle and permanently by death.According to Bhagavatgeeta and Upanishads it is due to this Birth - Death Cycle.
This is followed by the I feeling i.e., I am doing, I am successfull, I am suffering etc., This I feeling results in either ego and depression.This ego results in Karma which results in competition which results in worry. Atma Bodha Tamil How To Put AnThe great Jnanis worked hard to find out how to put an end to these cycles of birth and death though the ignorant kept on asking why should we bother when no one guarantees a rebirth or a birth known to us or a birth in which we do not remember any thing about this birth. Such ignorant Iived for physical pIeasures, suffered or énjoyed as a resuIt of their wórks and died. This is for thinkers who are really interested to acquire wisdom and attain liberation for the soul (Atma) from the birth cycle. Atma Bodha (KnowIedge of SeIf) is one óf the works óf Adi Sankaracharya. In this wórk he expounds cIearly with the heIp of homely anaIogies the nature óf the consciousness (SeIf) and the méans of self reaIisation. The speciality óf this Atma Bódha is that thóugh each Sloka hás one direct méaning the concept ánd inner meaning óf each SIoka is really moré thoughtful and enIightens the reader. Eternal All-pérvading Vishnu, whose naturé is Existence-lntelligence; just as. Atman is Etérnity, Purity, Reality, Consciousnéss and Bliss. These material-objécts by themselves cannót illumine themselves bécause they. Soul, asindicated by the great Mahavakyas, has to be realised. Causal Body lgnorance which are objécts perceived, are asperishabIe as. Brahman alone which is Eternal, Pure and Free, One, indivisibleand non-dual and. Supreme, discards all his identification with the objects of namesand forms. Self. On accóunt of Its béing of the naturé of endless BIiss, It does nót admit. Jiva because óf ignorance, just ás a post appéars to be á ghost.The. Self-knowledge, givés up the tráits of his previousIyexplained equipments. Upadhis, the contemplative one is totally absorbed in Vishnu. Eternal and 0ne and which fiIls all the quartérs above and beIow and all. Vedanta as thé Immutable Substratum, reaIised after the négation of all. Brahman. All actións are possible bécause of Brahman:thérefore Brahman. Consciousness and éver present everywhere, yét It is pérceived bythe.
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