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The Gross or Physical Body - An understanding

Disciple: What are the components of the physical body? Guru: The physical body is composed of five elements, viz., earth (Prithivi), water (Apah), fire (Tejas), air (Vayu) and space (Akasa). Disciple: What are the seven primary essences (Sapta-Dhatus) of the physical body? Guru: Chyle (Rasa), blood (Asra), flesh (Mamsa), fat (Medas), bone (Asthi), marrow (Majja) and semen (Sukla), are the seven primary essences of the physical body. Disciple: What are the Shad-bhava-vikaras (six modifications of the body) ? Guru: Asti (existence), Jayate (birth), Vardhate (growth), Viparinamate (change), Apaksheeyate (decay), Vinashyate (death), are the six modifications or changes of the body. Disciple: What are the links with which the body is connected? Guru: The body (Deha), action (Karma), love and hate (Raga-dvesha), egoism (Ahamkara), non-discrimination (Aviveka) and ignorance (Ajnana) are the seven links of the chain of Samsara (world-experience). Fro...

Three Bodies, Five Sheaths, Three Gunas, Ten Indriyas, Three Saktis

Body Koshas Gunas Indriyas Sakti Physical (Stula) Annamaya Kosha Tamas Astral (Sukshma) Pranamaya Kosha Rajas Five Karmendriyas Kriya Sakti Astral (Sukshma) Manomaya Kosha Sattva mixed with Tamas Fiva Jnanendriyas Iccha Sakti Astral (Sukshma) Vijnanamaya Kosha Sattva mixed with Rajas Jnana Sakti Causal (Karana) Anandamaya Kosha Malina-Sattva (mixed with Rajas and Tamas) Disciple: What Guna is found in the physical body? Guru: Tamoguna. Disciple: What Guna is found in the Pranamaya Kosha? Guru: Rajoguna. Disciple: What is the Guna found in the Manomaya Kosha? Guru: Sattva mixed with Tamas. Disciple: What is the Guna found in the Vijnanamaya Kosha? Guru: Sattva mixed with Rajas. Disciple: What is the Guna found in the Anandamaya Kosha? Guru: Sattva, technically called the Malina-Sattva (mixe...

Pleasure and Pain - An understanding - 1

Pleasure And Pain Pertain To Mind. Pleasure and pain are the effects of virtue and vice. They are two kinds of emotions that pertain to the mind alone. It is the mind alone which brings pleasures and pains on itself and enjoys them through its excessive inclination towards objects. Mind contracts during pain and expands during pleasure. Ahankara creates the body. Prana does all sorts of Cheshtas (efforts). Mind experiences pleasure and pain. If you perform actions through a stainless mind (with Akartri Bhava and Nishkama Bhava), your body will not share their fruits. There are only facts, vibrations or phenomena outside. Prakriti is blind. Prakriti is quite indifferent. There is neither pleasure nor pain in objects. It is all mental creation, mental perception, mental jugglery. It is only the mental attitude or certain kind of mental behaviour towards objects that brings joy or grief, pleasure and pain. Maya has her powerful seat in the imagination of the mind. All pa...

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