|| तत्वबोध -- 38||
TB-38 Why the five koSas are NOT AthmA..
एतत् कोश पञ्च्कम् | Ethath koSa pancakam |
मदीयं madhIyam [my] शरीरं SarIram [body] मदीया: madhIyA: [my] प्राणा: prANA: [five vital airs] मदीयं madhIyam [my] मनश्च manaSca [mind] मदिया madhIyA [my] बुद्धि: budhDhi: [intellect] मदीयं madhIyam my ज्ञानं gnAnam [knowledge] इति ithi [in this manner] स्वेनैव svEnaiava [how by oneself] ज्ञायते gnayathE [it is known] तत् thath [that] यथा yathA [just as] मदीयत्वेन madhIyathvEna [by the feeling of ownership] ज्ञातं gnAtham [it is known] कटक kataka [my katakam] कुन्डल kuNdala [my kundalam] गृहादिकं gRhAdhikam [my house] स्वस्मात् svasmAth [from me] भिन्नं Binnam [they are all different] तथा thaThA [in that very same manner] पञ्चकोशादिकं pancakoSAdhikam [these five koSAs] स्वस्मात् svasmAth [from myself] भिन्नं Binnam [different] मदीयत्वेन madhIyathvEna ["this is mine"] ज्ञातं gnAtham [known in that manner. period.] न na [They are NOT] आत्मा AthmA [my AthmA] भवति Bavathi [at ANYTIME..!!] |TB-39|
Okay, this is a mouthful to say.. or a handful to write.. and no matter how I tried to split the words, they were not yielding satisfactory ENGLISH sentences.. WHEREAS as samskRtham words they all made beautiful sense..
So I decided to keep the original order and I will try to justice to the orignal thaThparyam (essence) of what the guru has succinctly said..
Initially we described gorss body.. that which is most evident to us.. that should be understood as anAthmA or not the caithanyam.. Same is true for the subtle body and causal body.. We are able to observe at least two of the three bodies and causal body is TOTALLY NON-OBSERVABLE DIRECTLY, but accepted as declared by SRthi..
Then the guru went into the explanations of the waking state.. dream state and deep sleep state.. We witness the two states and deep sleep is inferred by us upon waking and as SDS puts it, it is directly "heard" by others nearby..
Following that description, our guru told the Sishya about the five koSas "we" all possess.
The bold red word is vital
I concluded the last post by saying that "we" all possess" are very important wrods. Let us analyze this a bit more..
We start by saying that I am short, or tall, or dark, or fair, or blind, or deaf.. etc.. In reality we are truly saying MY body height is not much.. or above average.. or skin color is dark.. or skin color is fair, or eyes do not see.. or ears do not hear.. etc.. etc.. Our language orientation is such that the "MY" is absent from our budhDhi most of the times.. except on occasion.. when a doctor asks "where does it hurt" we reply "MY" stomoch hurts..! Similary when we say "I breath smoothly.. thanks to MY prANAyAmam practice, we really are saying.. "MY lungs inhale and exhale the air smoothly"
Also when we say that " I am quiet, happy, I am sad, etc.." we clearly are operating at the mind level, and are really saying "MY" mind is still, is happy, is sad" etc. Same goes when we declare that "I decided to go to USA" or "I decided to accept the job in Infosys".. we are also really saying "MY" budhDhi decided to go to USA or accept the job in Infosys.. Then we clearly say ithout even batting an eye lid,"I know what needs to be done" we are really exhibiting "MY" knowledge.
Soo here the guru makes us think a little bit.. if I use the word "I" all the time and in every instance it really means "MY" followed by some verbs and nouns, THEN THIS POSSESSIVE PRONOUN CAN BE FORMED ONLY AFTER THE OWNER BEING THE "I"
In that case, everything we think, speak, act, and act upon.. all of them are known to the "karthA" In the same manner, the five annamaya koSa is "seen" by me with MY eyes.. the prANa maya koSa is "seen" by MY sense organ called "skin".MY mind koSa is also seen by ME through what is called MY "SAkshi prathyaksham" or witness peception.
Same witness perception see MY vignAna maya koSAm also. Ahh. finally the Anandha maya koSam.. simply exquisite.. it could be as simple as eating yogurt rice or..my lover says YES! madhIyathvEna gnAtham
Now having proved that this INTIMATELY known five koSas are suddenly compared by the guru to a whole bunch of unexpected objects.. ALL INERT..!
First I know that I have "MY" ear rings and ankle rings.. (yes.. any one of us who has seen old Indian movies where the rAjA and his men wore all kinds of jewelry..)
And certainly I am the proud owner of a house.. sometimes, a one room flat in mumbai.. or a 19 room mansion on the banks of a Swiss lake in Geneva.. I proudly tell my friends.."this is MY house..!" (please notice the upper case my.. bold and red and so proud..!!)
So now the teacher asks one simple Q to the student.. "hey, you see your panca koSa and say this is MY body etc.. then you also say that this is MY possesion.. so if YOU are the owner of these INERT objects, YOU are ALSO the owner of these 5 koSas.. can you not see.. ? the owner of an object is DIFFERENT always from the objects OWNED..!
"In the same manner (as the OWENER is different from the OWNED), AthmA is ALSO different than the five koSAs you mistake yourself to be.."
This is how the guru teaches..
Mistakes are made at teh avasThA thrayam level.. or the SarIrathryam level.. or the panca koSa level..
So teh guru takes all the pains in the world to explain to the SishyA as questions arise in the student's mind.
Once I asked SDS anonymously what is the defintion of a guru.. And I though I had asked him an excellent question for which he will give a one-hour lecture and still admire the alertness of the student who had asked such a brillliant Q.
He read the question out aloud in the mike.. and answered the shortest possible answer that can ever be given in couple of seconds.!
He read the Q aloud:"Who is a guru?"
His answer was: ONE WHO MAKES YOU SEE!
What else needs to be said about a guru? (of course, if TB were to be given in the Q&A format, nobody including me would understand a single word)
Now we will move onto EVEN more interesting aspects!
एतत् कोश पञ्च्कम् | Ethath koSa pancakam |
मदीयं madhIyam [my] शरीरं SarIram [body] मदीया: madhIyA: [my] प्राणा: prANA: [five vital airs] मदीयं madhIyam [my] मनश्च manaSca [mind] मदिया madhIyA [my] बुद्धि: budhDhi: [intellect] मदीयं madhIyam my ज्ञानं gnAnam [knowledge] इति ithi [in this manner] स्वेनैव svEnaiava [how by oneself] ज्ञायते gnayathE [it is known] तत् thath [that] यथा yathA [just as] मदीयत्वेन madhIyathvEna [by the feeling of ownership] ज्ञातं gnAtham [it is known] कटक kataka [my katakam] कुन्डल kuNdala [my kundalam] गृहादिकं gRhAdhikam [my house] स्वस्मात् svasmAth [from me] भिन्नं Binnam [they are all different] तथा thaThA [in that very same manner] पञ्चकोशादिकं pancakoSAdhikam [these five koSAs] स्वस्मात् svasmAth [from myself] भिन्नं Binnam [different] मदीयत्वेन madhIyathvEna ["this is mine"] ज्ञातं gnAtham [known in that manner. period.] न na [They are NOT] आत्मा AthmA [my AthmA] भवति Bavathi [at ANYTIME..!!] |TB-39|
Okay, this is a mouthful to say.. or a handful to write.. and no matter how I tried to split the words, they were not yielding satisfactory ENGLISH sentences.. WHEREAS as samskRtham words they all made beautiful sense..
So I decided to keep the original order and I will try to justice to the orignal thaThparyam (essence) of what the guru has succinctly said..
Initially we described gorss body.. that which is most evident to us.. that should be understood as anAthmA or not the caithanyam.. Same is true for the subtle body and causal body.. We are able to observe at least two of the three bodies and causal body is TOTALLY NON-OBSERVABLE DIRECTLY, but accepted as declared by SRthi..
Then the guru went into the explanations of the waking state.. dream state and deep sleep state.. We witness the two states and deep sleep is inferred by us upon waking and as SDS puts it, it is directly "heard" by others nearby..
Following that description, our guru told the Sishya about the five koSas "we" all possess.
The bold red word is vital
I concluded the last post by saying that "we" all possess" are very important wrods. Let us analyze this a bit more..
We start by saying that I am short, or tall, or dark, or fair, or blind, or deaf.. etc.. In reality we are truly saying MY body height is not much.. or above average.. or skin color is dark.. or skin color is fair, or eyes do not see.. or ears do not hear.. etc.. etc.. Our language orientation is such that the "MY" is absent from our budhDhi most of the times.. except on occasion.. when a doctor asks "where does it hurt" we reply "MY" stomoch hurts..! Similary when we say "I breath smoothly.. thanks to MY prANAyAmam practice, we really are saying.. "MY lungs inhale and exhale the air smoothly"
Also when we say that " I am quiet, happy, I am sad, etc.." we clearly are operating at the mind level, and are really saying "MY" mind is still, is happy, is sad" etc. Same goes when we declare that "I decided to go to USA" or "I decided to accept the job in Infosys".. we are also really saying "MY" budhDhi decided to go to USA or accept the job in Infosys.. Then we clearly say ithout even batting an eye lid,"I know what needs to be done" we are really exhibiting "MY" knowledge.
Soo here the guru makes us think a little bit.. if I use the word "I" all the time and in every instance it really means "MY" followed by some verbs and nouns, THEN THIS POSSESSIVE PRONOUN CAN BE FORMED ONLY AFTER THE OWNER BEING THE "I"
In that case, everything we think, speak, act, and act upon.. all of them are known to the "karthA" In the same manner, the five annamaya koSa is "seen" by me with MY eyes.. the prANa maya koSa is "seen" by MY sense organ called "skin".MY mind koSa is also seen by ME through what is called MY "SAkshi prathyaksham" or witness peception.
Same witness perception see MY vignAna maya koSAm also. Ahh. finally the Anandha maya koSam.. simply exquisite.. it could be as simple as eating yogurt rice or..my lover says YES! madhIyathvEna gnAtham
Now having proved that this INTIMATELY known five koSas are suddenly compared by the guru to a whole bunch of unexpected objects.. ALL INERT..!
First I know that I have "MY" ear rings and ankle rings.. (yes.. any one of us who has seen old Indian movies where the rAjA and his men wore all kinds of jewelry..)
And certainly I am the proud owner of a house.. sometimes, a one room flat in mumbai.. or a 19 room mansion on the banks of a Swiss lake in Geneva.. I proudly tell my friends.."this is MY house..!" (please notice the upper case my.. bold and red and so proud..!!)
So now the teacher asks one simple Q to the student.. "hey, you see your panca koSa and say this is MY body etc.. then you also say that this is MY possesion.. so if YOU are the owner of these INERT objects, YOU are ALSO the owner of these 5 koSas.. can you not see.. ? the owner of an object is DIFFERENT always from the objects OWNED..!
"In the same manner (as the OWENER is different from the OWNED), AthmA is ALSO different than the five koSAs you mistake yourself to be.."
This is how the guru teaches..
Mistakes are made at teh avasThA thrayam level.. or the SarIrathryam level.. or the panca koSa level..
So teh guru takes all the pains in the world to explain to the SishyA as questions arise in the student's mind.
Once I asked SDS anonymously what is the defintion of a guru.. And I though I had asked him an excellent question for which he will give a one-hour lecture and still admire the alertness of the student who had asked such a brillliant Q.
He read the question out aloud in the mike.. and answered the shortest possible answer that can ever be given in couple of seconds.!
He read the Q aloud:"Who is a guru?"
His answer was: ONE WHO MAKES YOU SEE!
What else needs to be said about a guru? (of course, if TB were to be given in the Q&A format, nobody including me would understand a single word)
Now we will move onto EVEN more interesting aspects!
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