Beasts kill only other beasts. But the blind man who has not acquired the Vision of the Atma that he is, kills himself. And Vidya warns that he who commits this crime goes into fearful realms sunk in the thickest night. Vidya, the Supreme Wisdom, attempts to describe for man the 'characteristics' of Atma. Atma has no movement but It is present everywhere. Even the gods cannot keep pace with it, however quick they are. It reveals Its Presence long before we anticipate It. The Atma is inmutable and omnipresent. Vidya announces that it is an impossible task to determine It.

When one attains the Supreme Wisdom or the highest level of Vidya, the distinction between the 'opposites' - Atma and Anatma, Vidya and A-vidya, Vikasa and Vinasa (Growth and Decay) fade away. Mystics and sages have attained that state of Higher Unity and the history of their struggles and successes is enshrined, through the prompting of Vidya, in literature. For such sages, from that level, knowledge is as dangerous as non-knowledge. They are aware of the mysterious origins and consequences of both. They are capable of overcoming death through non-knowledge and achieving immortality through knowledge.