ATMAN IS NOT THE PERSON

The Gita teaches that the Illumined soul, one who has become the Atman, knows always, “I am doing nothing.”

No matter what he sees, hears, touches, smells, eats . . . he always knows that “I am not seeing, I am not hearing.  It is the senses that see and hear and touch the things of the senses.”

The Atman is not doing the sensing, in other words.  The person the Atman inhabits is.