2/1/2015. ॐ श्रीपरमात्मने नमः । WHAT IS BODY (DEH, SHARIR)? (1) We are using several words during our articles. Many devotees request that these words must be explained to enable them to understand the wholesomeness of the article. One such word is body. Body is very important part of you. It is vehicle for fulfilling your all desires. The outer visible body is called gross body. Shruti calls it temple too. It is visible and made of five basic elements namely: Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth. It has five motor organs Gyanendriyas, namely: Ear, Skin, Eye, Tongue and Nose. These motor organs help you experience the subjects. The body has five outward sense organs, Karmendriyas, namely: Speech, Hand, Leg, Genitalia and Anus. The outer senses helps you travel and inter act with the outer world of the subjects. Body has Mind, Intellect, Ego and Chitta, too. The mind always provides you alternatives and duality. It always suggests this subject or that subject. Mind is always on move. It always desires one or the other subject. Mind will drive to attain the subject,when you don’t have the subject, but once you had it, mind will find it devoid of any interest and drive you for the new. You can say that new is the Motto of the mind. The intellect is your decisive faculty. When any new subject comes to you for decision whether to accept it or not, mind instead of referring it to intellect, refers it to ego, and unilaterally decides its acceptability, taking into consideration its viability in consolidating the ego. If you have nurtured a mandatory system of consulting the authority of intellect for all decisions, then intellect will take decision referring and going through the available data of same or similar incidents at its disposal of past experiences. During this process, sometimes you put your hand on your forehead to access the data from the memory. If there is no available data, then for a moment you feel a stroke, and by that time the gear is changed, the matter is referred to your intuition faculty, and you take decision accordingly with the help of intuition. Your ego is an accumulation of your all past actual as well as falsely believed impressions, remembrances, experiences, actions, reactions, identities, achievements, possessions, honours, respects, accreditations, designations, powers and enjoyments. Ego always murmurs this is me, this is mine. Chitta is storage house or hard disc it is neutral and works as per the Sanskar, the conditioning of mind. The mind is always moving so its nature is Rajas, the intellect is always as it is and expanded like an existence so its nature is Satva, whereas ego is static and past oriented so its nature is Tamas. The body along with mind, intellect and ego is always inert. It is always dead. The liveliness that is visible in it is due to the proximity of Atman, the Soul in it. Shruti says: मत्सान्निध्यात्प्रवतॅन्ते देहIद्या अजडा इव । (सवॅसारोपनिषद) (Matsaannidhyatpravartante dehaddya ajada iva-Sarvasaropanishad). Due to my (Soul’s) proximity; body, mind, ego, intellect, etc behave like sentient. It is our experience too, that when the soul departs from the body, body becomes inert. Had the body been live, as the general belief is, then it would had continued to be live after the departure of the soul too. But it is not our experience, so we can safely conclude that the body is always dead and inert. Krishna also says same thing in Gita. He refers the body, mind, intellect, ego as Matter, Prakruti. भूमिरापोअनलो वायु: खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च।अहंकार इतियं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा।।7/4 This my Prakruti (Nature) is divided eight fold thus: earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and ego. Here body’s reference is omitted to avoid the repetition as body includes the five basic elements. We know that Prakruti, the Matter is inert. So it is beyond any doubt that this body is always dead and inert. If you accept this plain truth, then your fear of death will wither away as body ab initio dead. We shall know more about body tomorrow. हरिः ॐ तत् सत् ।
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