28-August-2014: Message from the book Day after Day with Swami Dayananda Sat is always only cit-ātmā and the word satya can only mean cit. Self-existent awareness alone can be sat. Either word, sat or cit, will bring in the other word because what has to be cit has to be sat and what has to be sat has to be cit. Thus, the sat will bring in cit and cit will bring in sat. Because everything depends upon this sat-cit, sat-cit becomes limitless (ananta, ānanda). If everything depends upon sat-cit, is there any limitation for sat-cit-ātmā? There is no limit because everything is sat-cit-ātmā. Therefore, from the sat-cit-ātmā standpoint, there is no distance between itself and everything else nor is anything separate from it. The subject is sat-cit-ātmā, the object is sat-cit-ātmā, and the means of knowledge, the thought (vṛtti) is also sat-cit-ātmā. All three are sat-cit-ātmā alone. Thus, sat-cit-ānanda is the svarūpa of the ātmā; sat is not going to be non-existent at any time; and asat cannot be kept as it is because it is constantly changing. Source: From the book Bhagavad Gītā Home Study.
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