The Subtle Body

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ego. It is a means of enjoying pleasure and pain. Disciple: When will this

subtle body get dissolved? Guru: It gets dissolved in Videha Mukti or

disembodied Liberation.

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Thaanks,

Jabalimuni.Selvaratnam Selvakumar <selvauk (AT) (DOT) co.uk>

wrote: Om Namah Sivaya

Roman'"> Disciple: What is the composition of the subtle body? Guru: The

subtle body is composed of nineteen principles (Tattvas), viz., five Jnana

Indriyas or organs of knowledge, five Karma Indriyas or organs of action, five

Pranas or vital airs, Manas or mind, Buddhi or intellect, Chitta or the

subconscious and Ahamkara or the ego. It is a means of enjoying pleasure and

pain.

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It is this astral body that comes out of the physical body after death and moves

to heaven. Death of this astral body through the knowledge of the SIVAM

(Eternal) frees one from the cycle of births and deaths. The five

Jnana-Indriyas or organs of perception: Shrotra (ear), Tvak (skin), Chakshus

(eye), Jihva (tongue), Ghrana (nose). Hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell.

The five Karma-Indriyas or organs of action: Vak (speech), Pani (hand), Pada

(feet), Upastha (genital), Payu (anus). Speech, grasping, movement, excretion

and generation. The five Pranas or

vital forces: Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana, Vyana. The same Prana, the vital

force, is called Prana while inhaling and exhaling; the Apana while excreting;

Vyana while it pervades the entire body; Udana when it helps passing out from

the body and Samana when it assimilates food and drink. Prana is said to be

seated at the tip of the nose, being directly felt there, Apana in the

excretory organ, Vyana in the entire body, Udana in the throat (generally the

subtle body passes out through this exit), and Samana in the middle part of the

body.

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Function Of Udana Vayu

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senses or Indriyas. Prana generates thoughts. Prana moves the body and causes

locomotion. Prana digests the food, circulates the blood, excretes urine and

motion. Prana causes respirations. It is through Prana you see, hear, feel,

taste and think. The sum total of all Pranas is Hiranyagarbha or Lord Brahma.

Prana is manifestation of Prakritis. Gross Prana is breath. Subtle Prana is

vital force. Just as there is the subtle bladder within the football, so

also there is the subtle body or Sukshma Deha within this gross body. Udana

Vayu draws out the subtle body from the gross body at the time

of death. It is this subtle body that goes to heaven and works in the dreaming

state. Udana Vayu is the vehicle of transport for all Pranas. It helps

deglutition or swallowing of food. It takes you to SIVAM during deep sleep. Its

abode is the throat. This immortal Soul or Sivam which is the source and

support for all the Pranas, mind, intellect, senses and the body abides in the

chambers of your heart. This Sivam is in the heart where there are a hundred

and one arteries. Every one of these has seventy-two thousand branches. Vyana

which does the circulation of blood moves in these arteries. Udana, which

goes up through one of these, leads you to the higher worlds by means of your

meritorious actions, to the evil worlds by means of your evil deeds and to the

world of men by a mixture of both deeds. In the case of Jivanmuktas or

liberated sages who have nothing more by way of births nor worlds to live in,

their minds and Pranas get absorbed in Sivam. The individual soul merges itself

in the Supreme Soul. In the Jivanmukta there is no question of any

forerunner like the Udana Vayu. The liberated sages with their

minds purified by renunciation and with knowledge of the imperishable Sivam are

completely absorbed at the time of death. There is no return to this world for

them. The fourfold Antahkarana or the internal organs Manas (mind), Buddhi

(intellect), Chitta (memory or subconscious), Ahamkara (egoism). These owing to

its different functions: the Manas when it

cannot determine an object; the Buddhi when it is assured of the nature of the

object; the Chitta when it remembers, and the Ego when it identifies itself

with the body as its own Self. Sivaya Namah Jabali Muni

<jabalimuni > wrote: Om Namah Sivaya I thank Sri Selvaratnam

Selvakumar for letting us know about the composition of the subtle body by way

of the conversation between Guru and disciple.He is requested to elaborate more

about the mortal body and the nineteen priciples ((Tattavas), the body composed

of ,in detail for a better understanding.

Thaanks,

Jabalimuni.Selvaratnam Selvakumar <selvauk (AT) (DOT) co.uk> wrote: Om Namah

Sivaya Disciple: What is the composition of the subtle body? Guru: The

subtle body is composed of nineteen principles (Tattvas), viz., five Jnana

Indriyas or organs of knowledge, five Karma Indriyas or organs of action, five

Pranas or vital airs, Manas or mind, Buddhi or intellect, Chitta or the

subconscious and Ahamkara or the ego. It is a means of enjoying pleasure and

pain. Disciple: When will this subtle body get dissolved? Guru: It gets

dissolved in Videha Mukti or disembodied Liberation. Sivaya Namah

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Inside the physical body there is the astral body, or the subtle body. It is

more rarefied and ethereal than the physical one. In Sanskrit, it is called

sukshma-sarira. Whatever the sukshma-sarira or the Subtle Body is, that man is.

It is an indication of what man is made of. The physical body, or the physical

feature, or the physiognomy of the body, is also an expression of the internal

composition of the Subtle Body. Electricity is there inside physical matter.

Something like that, one may say, is the way in which the Subtle Body is inside

the physical body. The Subtle Body is a force. It can be compared to electric

energy to some extent. It is not a hard substance. This Subtle Body, or the

sukshma-sarira, is the essence of one's personality.

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the outcome of the nature of this Subtle Body which is within. Just as the

physical body is made up of the subtle essence of the food that the parents

have taken, and also the food that one eats, the Subtle Body is constituted of

many other small components. Subtle Body is made up of the five organs of

action, the five organs of knowledge, the five Pranas, mind, intellect, Chitta

or the subconscious mind, and Ahankar or egoism. It is this astral body that

comes out of the physical body after death and moves to heaven. Death of this

astral body through

the knowledge of the SIVAM (Eternal) frees one from the cycle of births and

deaths. The five Jnana-Indriyas or organs of perception: Shrotra (ear), Tvak

(skin), Chakshus (eye), Jihva (tongue), Ghrana (nose). Hearing, touch, sight,

taste and smell.

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Karma-Indriyas or organs of action: Vak (speech), Pani (hand), Pada (feet),

Upastha (genital), Payu (anus). Speech, grasping, movement, excretion and

generation. The five Pranas or vital forces: Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana,

Vyana. The same Prana, the vital force, is called Prana while inhaling and

exhaling; the Apana while excreting; Vyana while it pervades the entire body;

Udana when it helps passing out from the body and Samana when it assimilates

food and drink. Prana is said to be seated at the tip of the nose, being

directly felt there, Apana in the excretory organ, Vyana in the entire body,

Udana in the throat (generally the subtle body passes out through this exit),

and Samana in the middle part of the body.

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Function Of Udana Vayu Vayu is wind or air. Vayu is Prana or vital

force. Prana moves the senses or

Indriyas. Prana generates thoughts. Prana moves the body and causes locomotion.

Prana digests the food, circulates the blood, excretes urine and motion. Prana

causes respirations. It is through Prana you see, hear, feel, taste and think.

The sum total of all Pranas is Hiranyagarbha or Lord Brahma. Prana is

manifestation of Prakritis. Gross Prana is breath. Subtle Prana is vital force.

Just as there is the subtle bladder within the football, so also there is the

subtle body or Sukshma Deha within this gross body. Udana Vayu draws out the

subtle body from the gross body at the time of death. It is this subtle body

that goes to heaven and works in the dreaming state. Udana Vayu is the vehicle

of transport for all Pranas. It helps deglutition or swallowing of food. It

takes you to SIVAM

during deep sleep. Its abode is the throat. This immortal Soul or Sivam

which is the source and support for all the Pranas, mind, intellect, senses and

the body abides in the chambers of your heart. This Sivam is in the heart where

there are a hundred and one arteries. Every one of these has seventy-two

thousand branches. Vyana which does the circulation of blood moves in these

arteries. Udana, which goes up through one of these, leads you to the higher

worlds by means of your meritorious actions, to the evil worlds by means of your

evil deeds and to the

world of men by a mixture of both deeds. In the case of Jivanmuktas or

liberated sages who have nothing more by way of births nor worlds to live in,

their minds and Pranas get absorbed in Sivam. The individual soul merges itself

in the Supreme Soul. In the Jivanmukta there is no question of any

forerunner like the Udana Vayu. The liberated sages with their minds purified

by renunciation and with knowledge of the imperishable Sivam are completely

absorbed at the time of death. There is no return to this world for them.

The fourfold Antahkarana or the internal organs Manas (mind), Buddhi

(intellect), Chitta (memory or subconscious), Ahamkara (egoism). These owing to

its different functions: the Manas when it cannot determine an object; the

Buddhi when it is assured of the nature of the object; the Chitta when it

remembers, and the Ego when it identifies itself with the body as its own Self.

Sivaya Namah Jabali Muni <jabalimuni > wrote: Om Namah Sivaya

I thank Sri Selvaratnam Selvakumar for letting us know about the composition

of the subtle body by way of the conversation between Guru and disciple.He is

requested to elaborate more about the mortal body and the nineteen priciples

((Tattavas), the body composed of ,in detail for a better understanding.

Thaanks,

Jabalimuni.Selvaratnam Selvakumar

<selvauk (AT) (DOT) co.uk> wrote: Om Namah Sivaya Disciple: What is the

composition of the subtle body? Guru: The subtle body is composed of

nineteen principles (Tattvas), viz., five Jnana Indriyas or organs of

knowledge, five Karma Indriyas or organs of action, five Pranas or vital airs,

Manas or mind, Buddhi or intellect, Chitta or the subconscious and Ahamkara or

the ego. It is a means of enjoying pleasure and pain. Disciple: When will

this subtle body get dissolved? Guru: It gets dissolved in Videha Mukti or

disembodied Liberation. Sivaya Namah Photos – NEW, now offering

a quality print service from just 8p a photo.

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