In English
help to cleanse consciousness
For the invite us to realise that everything - living and non-living-,-every quality and characteristic of everything, is only an aspect of the one , the Source and Substance of all. The or the Ego is an appearance on the as the foam on the edge of the wave, which is but the ocean itself. The can well be devoid of Ego, but the Ego cannot exist without the as the reality underneath. However, man validates the Ego (), giving it a form () full of attributes and so, it gets polluted as Egoism (). When the Ego is free from the status of 'ism,' it is a facet or factor of the . Attributes, modes, drag it into the tangle of dualities and so, it gets malefic and sheds its positive, purifying role. The oblation that is done here in the sacred fire is symbolic of the evil adhering to the Ego, the animal urges that still animate it. The 'ism' or mould in which the Ego has hardened tantalises man and blinds him to the Truth. has described the harm it inflicts and prescribes the recitation of the name of God to defuse the consequence. The pure ego will then merge and lose its identity in the , which has no birth and no death. These serve one purpose more than all else - the cleansing of all levels of consciousness (), for they involve renunciation, invocation of Divinity and ascetic practices. This achievement alone cannot ensure liberation (). That can he won only by the awareness of the reality leading to discarding () the attachment () to the unreal. But, this ultimate objective is seldom kept in view. Vedhic rites were gone through in order to win the boon of sorrow-free wordly life and blissful heavenly sojourn, and only as a stage in realising the freedom from birth and death, and merging in the Truth.