5.3. Realisation of the self

As regards the realization of the self, Kaivalya gives the following.

[...] Kaivalya Upaniṣad verse 19

“In me alone is everything born, in me does everything rest, and in me is everything dissolved. I am that Brahman, the secondless. I am minuter than the minute, I am likewise the greatest of all, I am the manifold universe. I am the Ancient One, the Puruṣa and the Ruler, I am the Effulgent One, and the All-good. Without arms and legs am I, of unthinkable power; I see without eyes, and I hear without ears. I know all, and am different from all. None can know me. I am always the Intelligence. I alone am taught in the various Vedas, I am the revealer of the Vedānta or Upaniṣads, and I am also the Knower of the Vedas. For me there is neither merit nor demerit, I suffer no destruction, I have no birth, nor any self-identity with the body and the organs. For me there is neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air, nor ether. Thus realising the Paramātman, who lies in the cavity of the heart, who is without parts, and without a second, the Witness of all, beyond both existence and nonexistence–one attains the Pure Paramātman itself.^[1]