Dancing with Śiva

Ātmasvarūpam

आत्मस्वरूपम्

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The Nature of the Soul

A part of Infinite Consciousness becomes our own finite consciousness, with powers of discrimination and definition and with false conceptions. He is, in truth, Prajāpati and Viśva, the Source of Creation and the Universal in us all. This Spirit is consciousness and gives consciousness to the body. He is the driver of the chariot.§

Kṛishṇa Yajur Veda, Maitrī Upanishad 2.5. UPM, 99§