M vedanta/aparokshanubhuti/aparokshanubhuti.tex → vedanta/aparokshanubhuti/aparokshanubhuti.tex

@@ -1642,4 +1642,12 @@ Âtman, which resides in your own body and is (evidently) different from it,
 which is known as Purusha and is established (by the Sruti as identical with
 Brahman), to be absolutely non-existent$^1$?}
 
+{\small\textit{$^1$Why do you assert.........absolutely non-existent?} --- In
+the preceding stanzas when all the attributes that the human mind can conceive
+of have been denied of Âtman, one is naturally assailed by the doubt whether
+such an Âtman at all exists. To remove this doubt it is here said that Âtman is
+a fact of everybody's experience and as such, its existence cannot be
+challenged; therefore there is no reason to call it Sunya or absolute
+non-existence.}
+
 \end{document}