|| तत्वबोध -- 18||
सूक्ष्म शरीरं किम्?|
Again the student asks.. what is sUkshma SarIram.. or the subtle body..?? Here the explanation by the guru will go for quite some time.. simply because many new terms will be introduced. this is usually referred to as the soul.. this sould is assumed to be differnt than the body.. MANY MANY mistakes are uniformly committed by one and all all because of a TIGHT definition of these terms.. Here the real tightness of teaching as well the alertness on the part of the student IS a must..! This will not however scare any mumukshu away..!! That is for sure.. (I will also make it as precise as possible, expanding only where necessary..!!)
The guru starts with a mouthful of terms.. as usual.. If he can not confuse the casula reader, HE is not FIT to be a guru..!!!
अपञ्चीकृत पञ्चमहाभीतैः कृतम सत्कर्मजातं सुख दुख भोग आदि साधनं प्ञ्च ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि पञ्च कर्मेन्द्रियाणि पञ्च प्राणादयः मनश्च बुद्धिः च एक एवं सप् दशा कलाभिः सह यत् तिष्ठति तत् सूक्ष्म शरीरं|TB-18|
तत् सूक्ष्म शरीरं|TB-18|.. this alone is sUkshma SarIram.. or subtle body.. then he goes on to dissect that term like a surgen dissecting a frog in the first year medical school..! The only difference is that we are alive prior to his explanation and we begin to understand that we NEVER die.!
अपञ्चीकृत पञ्चमहाभीतैः कृतम.. previously guru spoke about the gross elements produced due to the five-fold pancIkaraNam activity. Here he refers to the respective five subtle elements (space, air, fire, water, and earth also known as thanmAthrAs in our SAsthram.. So the subtle elements are responsible for the cration of the subtle body (like the gross elements were responsible for the gross body.)
सत्कर्मजातं.. this goes without saying.. if EVEN the gross body is due to our good karmas, what to talk of the subtle body that permeates the entire physical body? It has to be definitely the result of god's grace that make us enjoy the proper subtlebody (by the way THIS IS THE agnAni jiva:. goes from lokam to lokam as a traveller assming many bodies
सुख दुख भोग आदि साधनं..PLEASE TAKE A VERY GOOD NOE OF THIS MOST SIGNIFICANT ASPECT OF THE SUBTLE BODY..!! this is what makes each one of decide "I LIKE THIS.. I DON'T LIKE THIS.. THIS MAKES ME HAPPY.. THIS MAKES ME SAD.. and it has the most amazing miraculous power of having the ability to make us so unified (IN TOTAL ERROR OF COURSE) WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.. in other words makes us an agnAni..!!!.. WITHOUT this subtle body, we are ready to take the gross body to the cremation ground or burial ground..!
Now guru explains the components or constituents of the subtle body further..
प्ञ्च ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि.. Each human (and many animals as well) is endowed with the five organs of knowledge.. (5)
पञ्च कर्मेन्द्रियाणि.. the five organs of action..(5)
पञ्च प्राणादयः.. the five vital airs insode our body..(5)
मनश्च.. mind (1)
बुद्धिः च. intellect(1)
सप् दशा कलाभिः.. when we add all these together we get 17 kalAs or glories..
सह.. with these 17 glories.. एक एवं.. AS IF IT IS ONE ENTITY.. यत् तिष्ठति.. WHICH EXISTS.. तत्.. (THAT IS REALLY) सूक्ष्म शरीरं.. the subtle body..
At this point the guru does not elaborate on what are the organs of knowledge, action, vital airs, what is mind, what is intellect etc.. All these are defined slowly but surely one oafter the other in the explanatiosn that follow..
That is why I said in the very beginning TB is a vEdhAnthic lexicon.. it is like defining the commands of a computer language.. once these are defined and understood, a sADhaka who is ready for gnAnam will understand at the operational level of each one of these definitions inside himself (or herself).. AGAIN, HERE THE GENDER IS NOT IMPORTANT.. THIS IS WHY I SIMPLY LOVE THATHVA BODHA:.. it the BEST vEdhAnthic formula for mumukshUs.!
Now guru has to explain one term at a time about what he has uttered so far..
He first starts obviously with the five organs of knowledge..
I think we are eager to move on with the rest of these terms..(TBC)..!
Again the student asks.. what is sUkshma SarIram.. or the subtle body..?? Here the explanation by the guru will go for quite some time.. simply because many new terms will be introduced. this is usually referred to as the soul.. this sould is assumed to be differnt than the body.. MANY MANY mistakes are uniformly committed by one and all all because of a TIGHT definition of these terms.. Here the real tightness of teaching as well the alertness on the part of the student IS a must..! This will not however scare any mumukshu away..!! That is for sure.. (I will also make it as precise as possible, expanding only where necessary..!!)
The guru starts with a mouthful of terms.. as usual.. If he can not confuse the casula reader, HE is not FIT to be a guru..!!!
अपञ्चीकृत पञ्चमहाभीतैः कृतम सत्कर्मजातं सुख दुख भोग आदि साधनं प्ञ्च ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि पञ्च कर्मेन्द्रियाणि पञ्च प्राणादयः मनश्च बुद्धिः च एक एवं सप् दशा कलाभिः सह यत् तिष्ठति तत् सूक्ष्म शरीरं|TB-18|
तत् सूक्ष्म शरीरं|TB-18|.. this alone is sUkshma SarIram.. or subtle body.. then he goes on to dissect that term like a surgen dissecting a frog in the first year medical school..! The only difference is that we are alive prior to his explanation and we begin to understand that we NEVER die.!
अपञ्चीकृत पञ्चमहाभीतैः कृतम.. previously guru spoke about the gross elements produced due to the five-fold pancIkaraNam activity. Here he refers to the respective five subtle elements (space, air, fire, water, and earth also known as thanmAthrAs in our SAsthram.. So the subtle elements are responsible for the cration of the subtle body (like the gross elements were responsible for the gross body.)
सत्कर्मजातं.. this goes without saying.. if EVEN the gross body is due to our good karmas, what to talk of the subtle body that permeates the entire physical body? It has to be definitely the result of god's grace that make us enjoy the proper subtlebody (by the way THIS IS THE agnAni jiva:. goes from lokam to lokam as a traveller assming many bodies
सुख दुख भोग आदि साधनं..PLEASE TAKE A VERY GOOD NOE OF THIS MOST SIGNIFICANT ASPECT OF THE SUBTLE BODY..!! this is what makes each one of decide "I LIKE THIS.. I DON'T LIKE THIS.. THIS MAKES ME HAPPY.. THIS MAKES ME SAD.. and it has the most amazing miraculous power of having the ability to make us so unified (IN TOTAL ERROR OF COURSE) WITH THE PHYSICAL BODY OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.. in other words makes us an agnAni..!!!.. WITHOUT this subtle body, we are ready to take the gross body to the cremation ground or burial ground..!
Now guru explains the components or constituents of the subtle body further..
प्ञ्च ज्ञानेन्द्रियाणि.. Each human (and many animals as well) is endowed with the five organs of knowledge.. (5)
पञ्च कर्मेन्द्रियाणि.. the five organs of action..(5)
पञ्च प्राणादयः.. the five vital airs insode our body..(5)
मनश्च.. mind (1)
बुद्धिः च. intellect(1)
सप् दशा कलाभिः.. when we add all these together we get 17 kalAs or glories..
सह.. with these 17 glories.. एक एवं.. AS IF IT IS ONE ENTITY.. यत् तिष्ठति.. WHICH EXISTS.. तत्.. (THAT IS REALLY) सूक्ष्म शरीरं.. the subtle body..
At this point the guru does not elaborate on what are the organs of knowledge, action, vital airs, what is mind, what is intellect etc.. All these are defined slowly but surely one oafter the other in the explanatiosn that follow..
That is why I said in the very beginning TB is a vEdhAnthic lexicon.. it is like defining the commands of a computer language.. once these are defined and understood, a sADhaka who is ready for gnAnam will understand at the operational level of each one of these definitions inside himself (or herself).. AGAIN, HERE THE GENDER IS NOT IMPORTANT.. THIS IS WHY I SIMPLY LOVE THATHVA BODHA:.. it the BEST vEdhAnthic formula for mumukshUs.!
Now guru has to explain one term at a time about what he has uttered so far..
He first starts obviously with the five organs of knowledge..
I think we are eager to move on with the rest of these terms..(TBC)..!
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