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Articles: Devotion | Is the world a Stage?
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Vedas, the Word of God, perceived by ancient sages, as well as the sacred scriptures God had given through the various Messiahs of the past, reveal the truth as to what earthly life is about. Truth is multidimensional, eternal and universal and cannot change from any perspective. A surgeon cannot be a surgeon if he is not thorough with his knowledge of the human anatomy. Operating on a patient without a sound knowledge of anatomy is tantamount to butchery! Likewise, we have to dissect the truth about ourselves under a ‘spiritual microscope’ to know who we are and what we are made of.
Are We Just the Body?
A human being is not just the body, the manifested physical aspect, but much larger than what meets the senses. The body is merely an instrument to perform action. It is a vehicle for the ‘person within,’ the ‘Persona,’ to manifest and express. Every person deep within is God, but this Divinity is shrouded in the personality, the body consciousness, with a feeling of separateness as an individual human being. Our physical or gross body is only made of earthly material, consisting of the five elements – space, air, fire, water and earth - from the food consumed and therefore referred to as the ‘food-sheath’ (annamaya-kosha). The physical body is like a costume, tailor-made for us, which is ‘ what we think we are.’
At a deeper level we will see the subtle and causal bodies, which are the non-material and invisible aspects of our being, beyond the senses. The subtle body consists of the mind, intellect, memory and ego (manas, buddhi, chitta and ahamkara) correspondingly in association with the next three sheaths (pranamaya, manomaya and vijnayamaya koshas). The mind is the cause of all aberrations, and the subject of ‘what others think we are.’ Beyond the subtle body is the causal body forming the bliss sheath (anandamaya-kosh), ‘what we really are.’ The body is merely a temporary dwelling for the resident within, the Atma, the Immortal and Eternal Self.
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