The Philosophy of the Upanishads c12.s2.t3.35

c12.s2.t3.35

It is in harmony with this explanation that Yâjñavalkhya asserts in Bṛih. 2. 4. 12,⁶ in answer to Maitreyî:—“After death there is no consciousness”; and explains this by saying that the imperishable indestructible âtman (avinâs’in, anuc’chittidharman⁷) has after death no further consciousness of objects, because as knowing subject he has everything in himself, nothing outside of himself, consequently "has no longer any contact with matter" (*mâtrâ-asamsargas tu asya bhavati*).¹