1.Perceptions are always relative.With reference to the waves,the Ocean is motionless.So too in life the Atman in its all pervading nature is motionless.It neither acts nor works.But with reference to the matter enveloping around it,life can be defined as thinking,feeling or acting.For instance the boat moves but never the lake.
With reference to a moving factor,the motionless would look as though moving,though itself is motionless or still.When viewed from a moving boat,the trees on the bank are seen as moving.So also viewing the motionless Spirit of life from and through the world of agitations in matter,the Spirit itself looks as though It moves, and yet, in its real nature,it does not.
To a person suffering from vertigo,the room alongwith all the objects in it and all people around seem to be spinning when in actuality it is not…that is merely an illusion of his perception owing to his ailment.!!!
The pure awareness or consciousness, in all its pervading, essential nature,neither moves nor acts.
This is how the self appears to move and not move at the same time.
