ABSTRACT
Yājnavalkya has emphasized the immanence and the transcendence of Atman. Atman is in all things. It is out of everything. Such contrariety occurs in almost all places of the Upaniṣads. The Chhāndogya says: "This Atman of mine within the heart is smaller than the grain of rice, or a barley-corn, or a mustard-seed, or a grain of millet, or the kernel of a grain of millet. The soul of mine within the heart is greater than the earth, greater than the atmosphere, greater than the sky, greater than these worlds." Then again: "His greatness is of such extent; yet Purusa is greater still, all beings are one-fourth of him, three-fourths, the immortal in the sky." And again, attributes are ascribed to the Absolute and also denied of it.
