Atman full of life - Part 12 of 20

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There is a double occurrence of ‘sva’ in ‘sva-svarUpa’.

The first ‘sva’ means “one’s own”. The second ‘sva’ means “natural”.

So ‘sva-svarUpa’ means one’s own natural form (rUpaM).

It is the natural, true, Atman, the form which is unmixed with MAyA, of the JIva that has an artificial form mixed with MAyA.

You may ask: Wherefrom did the Atman get a ‘form’?

Here ‘rUpaM’ does not mean ‘form’ or ‘shape’.

Whatever is one’s nature, that is called ‘rUpaM’.

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