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TB-27 Three states of existence..
जाग्रदवस्था का?|

श्रोत्रादि ज्ञानेन्द्रियै: श्ब्दादि विषयश्च ज्ञायते यत् सा जाग्रदवस्था|TB-27|

Here the student asks "What is the waking state?"

To that comes a nice reply from the guru..

श्रोत्रादि.. by organs such as ears .. 

ज्ञानेन्द्रियै: which are known as organs of knowledge (this automatically means that the organs of skin, eyes, mouth, and nose are implied..)

श्ब्दादि ..sounds etc.

विषयश्च and such objects 

ज्ञायते are known

यत् in which state

सा that is

जाग्रदवस्था| the waking state..

It is very important to note that the guru talks only about gnAa indhriyAs.. because when we sleep, they are NOT functional. Also the organs of action are functional always.. even if we sleep. Whereas, when we are awake alone, the sounds falling in our ears is recognized by us.. 

But we often encounter a state while we are deep in thought and walking on the beach, a friend honks his horn at us.. more often than not we may not even notice it..!

Are we awake? are we dreaming? or or we asleep?

We will analyze this in the next two sections... for now we all can AGREE that if I am awake, I hear the sound.. I am able to enjoy the food... or bAdAm cake made by Mani Sir.. !!

Then we hug each other feel the warmth of one another.. or able to recognize good scents as well as bad scents.. enjoy the scenery.. and come to conclusions about them.. Read the postings in Orkut, analyze and arrive at conclusions (more often wrong than right.. but the accuracy is of no use here..!!)

In other words, all our day to day vyavahArAs take place while we are awake..

This state alone is known as jAgrath avasThA..

I will move on to svapna avasthA later..

hari: om.

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