Before it is a stage where bliss alone, not absorption, is taught.[19] But what is the ego, spirit or self (_[=a]tm[=a]_)?
First of all it is conscious; next it is not the Person, for the Person is produced by the _[=a]tm[=a]_.
Since this Person is the type of the personal god, it is evident that the ego is regarded as lying back of personality.

Nevertheless, the teachers sometimes stop with the latter.

The developed view is that the immortality of the personal creator is commensurate only with that of the world which he creates.

It is for this reason that in the Mundaka (1.2.

10) it is said that fools regard fulfillment of desire in heavenly happiness as the best thing; for although they have their 'reward in the top of heaven, yet, when the elevation caused by their good works ends, as it will end, when the buoyant power of good works is exhausted, then they drop down to earth again.