This is another doubt that comes uppermost to some. Let us seek the answers. In spite of this, however, man feels that he is not This body, that his reality is distinct from it, that he is not the baby he was or the old man he is, that he is neither male nor female, and that he persists through babyhood, boyhood, middle age and old age, masculinity and femininity and all the other stages and changes. So too, the Cosmos and all Creation are but the billion bodies of God. He is all this and in all this, but, He is changeless and eternal.
Nature is amenable to change.
The Atma too can contract or expand, blossom or fade, shine or be befogged. Bad deeds will diminish its splendour by clouding its brilliance. Its innate and genuine Truth and Wisdom may be hidden by evil thoughts and deeds. Those acts and practices that can disclose the native splendour and glory of the Atman are termed 'good'.