An executive summary of || तत्वबोध || thus far..!
The guru starts the teaching with a maha prathignA (great promise) that he is going to tell the "proper" candidate what is the means of liveration..!
Then he expalins the four-fold qualifications (actually totalling nine..!) and then sets the stage for the student to ask more and more and more questions..
And then he explains each and every question just by defining the term and NOT explaining in any great detail what it all means.. (which I have been doing with the grace of SDS..)
From the four-fold qualifications he moves on to explain the physical body.. with its six-fold modifications..
Then he moves on to explain the subtle body.. and its 17 sub-components..
Then he explains the causal body..
He also explains the three avasThAs namely waking, dream and deep sleep..
Along with that, the three bodies associated with the 3 states are also explained..
JUST REMEMBER.. THIS IS THE MITHYA EXPLANATION FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO HAVE A POSSIBLE ANSWER TO THEIR "mithyA" QUESTIONS..
Thus all of these answers are "REASONABLE" They need not be perfect.. SAsthra does not really worry about the exactness of these answers.. We have questions and we expect the scripturs to answer.. So the scriptures give an answer with the full agreement that we can challenge those and prove the SRThi to be wrong..!
Then if we come up with a better model to expalin vyAvahArikam, SRthi says "Live long, my child.. you have my full blessings..!"
You see, the SRthi reveals that we are not separate from brmhan and everything else is only to help us assimilate that fact.. We have Qs on vyAvahArkam.. it iwll be glad to give us a resonable answer..
The SRthi uses multiple teaching methodologies to help us understand the essence.. so far the three-body explanantion is given to understand mithA and three state explanation to show that all of these are ever-changing, so that when we are exposed to the teaching, we have NO choice but to see with clarity..
Now we will proceed to the five koSAs! That is about it so far.!
Then he expalins the four-fold qualifications (actually totalling nine..!) and then sets the stage for the student to ask more and more and more questions..
And then he explains each and every question just by defining the term and NOT explaining in any great detail what it all means.. (which I have been doing with the grace of SDS..)
From the four-fold qualifications he moves on to explain the physical body.. with its six-fold modifications..
Then he moves on to explain the subtle body.. and its 17 sub-components..
Then he explains the causal body..
He also explains the three avasThAs namely waking, dream and deep sleep..
Along with that, the three bodies associated with the 3 states are also explained..
JUST REMEMBER.. THIS IS THE MITHYA EXPLANATION FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO HAVE A POSSIBLE ANSWER TO THEIR "mithyA" QUESTIONS..
Thus all of these answers are "REASONABLE" They need not be perfect.. SAsthra does not really worry about the exactness of these answers.. We have questions and we expect the scripturs to answer.. So the scriptures give an answer with the full agreement that we can challenge those and prove the SRThi to be wrong..!
Then if we come up with a better model to expalin vyAvahArikam, SRthi says "Live long, my child.. you have my full blessings..!"
You see, the SRthi reveals that we are not separate from brmhan and everything else is only to help us assimilate that fact.. We have Qs on vyAvahArkam.. it iwll be glad to give us a resonable answer..
The SRthi uses multiple teaching methodologies to help us understand the essence.. so far the three-body explanantion is given to understand mithA and three state explanation to show that all of these are ever-changing, so that when we are exposed to the teaching, we have NO choice but to see with clarity..
Now we will proceed to the five koSAs! That is about it so far.!
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