|| तत्वबोध -- 31,32||
TB-31/32 Causal Body (conclusion)
कारण शरीर अभिमानि आत्मा प्राज्ञ: इति उच्च्यते |TB-32|
kAraNa SarIra aBimAni AthmA prAgna: ithi uccyathe|TB-32|
guru continues..
AthmA : that aspect of the jIva
aBimAni : who is attached to
kAraNa SarIra : the causal body
ithi uccyathe : is called
prAgna: = prAgna: .. prAena agna: "more or less an ignorant person"..
This is a very significant statement by the guru to the student.. Though the guru does not explain it in detail, I am going to provide some extra explanantion here based on whatever I have learnt from SDS in many of his lectures..
First of all, the very first doubt in the reader's mind.."why is he called more or less ignorant..?" The answer is that when we sleep we are awake when we hit the sake.. then close our eyes.. toss around.. then may be we dream.. then we eter the deep sleep.. and perhaps dream again and wake up.. THIS POST DEEP SLEEP DREAMS ALONE ARE RECOLLECTED BY US.. Whereas, our deep sleep after dream will wipe out our memory of the dream..
Then what is defined as a deep sleep? When we get up and then declare that we slept well.. and we also we add "I did not know what happened while i slept so well"
The fact that we declare our ignorance of the events during our deep sleep state is the proof that we are ignorant.. BUT THAT ISGNORANCE IS only MORE OR LESS.. becasue if we were totally ignorant we will not be able even to recall that we slept well.. so something has been very closely awake EVEN when we were in deep sleep and reports to us that "hey, you.. you really slept good" then we report this to the world around us..! So this awareness makes us "more or less" ignorant.
THIS CAUSAL BODY TIES THE SUBTLE BODY OF EVERY JIVA TO SAMSARAM.. AND DOES NOT PERISH EVEN DURING THE PRALAYAM OR TOTAL DISSOLUTION OF THE ENTIRE CREATION..
This is a very important fact in our SASthram because the subtle body + the causal body while enter the mahA nidhra during pralayam, the kARmic bag is kept associated to this jIva
guru continues..
AthmA : that aspect of the jIva
aBimAni : who is attached to
kAraNa SarIra : the causal body
ithi uccyathe : is called
prAgna: = prAgna: .. prAena agna: "more or less an ignorant person"..
This is a very significant statement by the guru to the student.. Though the guru does not explain it in detail, I am going to provide some extra explanantion here based on whatever I have learnt from SDS in many of his lectures..
First of all, the very first doubt in the reader's mind.."why is he called more or less ignorant..?" The answer is that when we sleep we are awake when we hit the sake.. then close our eyes.. toss around.. then may be we dream.. then we eter the deep sleep.. and perhaps dream again and wake up.. THIS POST DEEP SLEEP DREAMS ALONE ARE RECOLLECTED BY US.. Whereas, our deep sleep after dream will wipe out our memory of the dream..
Then what is defined as a deep sleep? When we get up and then declare that we slept well.. and we also we add "I did not know what happened while i slept so well"
The fact that we declare our ignorance of the events during our deep sleep state is the proof that we are ignorant.. BUT THAT ISGNORANCE IS only MORE OR LESS.. becasue if we were totally ignorant we will not be able even to recall that we slept well.. so something has been very closely awake EVEN when we were in deep sleep and reports to us that "hey, you.. you really slept good" then we report this to the world around us..! So this awareness makes us "more or less" ignorant.
THIS CAUSAL BODY TIES THE SUBTLE BODY OF EVERY JIVA TO SAMSARAM.. AND DOES NOT PERISH EVEN DURING THE PRALAYAM OR TOTAL DISSOLUTION OF THE ENTIRE CREATION..
This is a very important fact in our SASthram because the subtle body + the causal body while enter the mahA nidhra during pralayam, the kARmic bag is kept associated to this jIva
Now I mentioned the 8.4 million "yonis" or life forms are there as per SRthi.
Then there are countless jIvas in creation.
Each jiva possesses a causal body as well as a suble body.
then in a human body karmA is performed.. due to avidhyA doership is assumed and enjoyership is attached to the jiva..
The bag gets bigger as the jiva is accumulating more and more karma Palams.
Depending on which karma palams heve to be exhausted, god picks an appropriate life form for each jiva.. causal body keeps us ignorant and subtle body performs the tasks with the help of one of the 8.4 million life forms.
Here SRthi tells that we can falisfy this karmic bag in ONE life form.. that of a human..! All other life forms only exhaust the puNYam or pApam accrued to each jiva's karmic account..
Why so? BECAUSE WE HUMANS ALONE HAVE FREE WILL AND IN HUMAN JANMA ONLY OUR SELF-CONSIOUSNESS IS TOTAL.. !!
This free will ALONE makes us perform karmA and makes us bind to the karmic bag..! SO WHAT WE DO.. CAN ALSO BE UNDONE BY US BY USING THE VERY SAME FREE WILL..!
How beautiful and simple and logical the whole appraoch is for ending samsAram..!
As long I have karthrthvam (doership) , Bokthrthvam (enjoyership) can not be avoided. so the cycle is "beginningless" Ignorance, that makes us feel that we are limited
Once I feel limited kAma (DESIRE) takes root. then ahamkAram (ego) kicks in..
kAma + ego makes me do things, alter my surroundings, choose and discard. as per my likes and dislikes. some Dharmic and some aDharmic.. now karma kicks in..
Once ego-centric karma is performed, karthRthvam is in full swing..! Once karma is perfomed with karthRthvam, it generates puNyam and pApam to be attached to the jIva. This necessitates ENJOYERSHIP (or BokthRthvam) on the part of the ignorant jiva. Now the karmic bag begins to bulge.!
As the karma palam of one single human janma can no be exhausted in one birth, more births are necesitated.! You see, AvidhyA causes havoc!
Then there are countless jIvas in creation.
Each jiva possesses a causal body as well as a suble body.
then in a human body karmA is performed.. due to avidhyA doership is assumed and enjoyership is attached to the jiva..
The bag gets bigger as the jiva is accumulating more and more karma Palams.
Depending on which karma palams heve to be exhausted, god picks an appropriate life form for each jiva.. causal body keeps us ignorant and subtle body performs the tasks with the help of one of the 8.4 million life forms.
Here SRthi tells that we can falisfy this karmic bag in ONE life form.. that of a human..! All other life forms only exhaust the puNYam or pApam accrued to each jiva's karmic account..
Why so? BECAUSE WE HUMANS ALONE HAVE FREE WILL AND IN HUMAN JANMA ONLY OUR SELF-CONSIOUSNESS IS TOTAL.. !!
This free will ALONE makes us perform karmA and makes us bind to the karmic bag..! SO WHAT WE DO.. CAN ALSO BE UNDONE BY US BY USING THE VERY SAME FREE WILL..!
How beautiful and simple and logical the whole appraoch is for ending samsAram..!
As long I have karthrthvam (doership) , Bokthrthvam (enjoyership) can not be avoided. so the cycle is "beginningless" Ignorance, that makes us feel that we are limited
Once I feel limited kAma (DESIRE) takes root. then ahamkAram (ego) kicks in..
kAma + ego makes me do things, alter my surroundings, choose and discard. as per my likes and dislikes. some Dharmic and some aDharmic.. now karma kicks in..
Once ego-centric karma is performed, karthRthvam is in full swing..! Once karma is perfomed with karthRthvam, it generates puNyam and pApam to be attached to the jIva. This necessitates ENJOYERSHIP (or BokthRthvam) on the part of the ignorant jiva. Now the karmic bag begins to bulge.!
As the karma palam of one single human janma can no be exhausted in one birth, more births are necesitated.! You see, AvidhyA causes havoc!
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