Crikey ... Samkhya?! [was A painted fisher cannot catch a real fish]

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You see, a human being is not a single entity. It's a conglomerate.

Every second there are about 1.2 million cells coming into your blood

stream and another 1.2 million cells dying. It's a stream of life,

which we simply consider – for convenience – to be a single person, a

single entity. But this person does not die with each blood cell that

dies and is not reborn with every cell. So many lives are flowing

through us. With such a complicated system in place, it really can't

be said that such-and-such a person is always there – because he or

she is becoming a different person with every second, every

millisecond, and every nanosecond.

 

Each day you can put your feet in the river; but it's not the same

river. It's a different river – different water, different fish,

different silt and debris, different microbes with every passing

moment – but you still call it by the same name. Likewise with the

human entity: I call myself Sastry; but I'm not the same Sastry I was

even one second ago.

 

So these names are confusing. The concept of the "individual self" is

actually the concept of an aggregate. And once you accept that an

aggregate can have a life –independent of any particular cell coming

into or passing out of it – then you'll have no difficulty in

understanding that a family has a life, a company has a life, a

village has a life, a city has a life, Earth has a life, every planet

has a life, the solar system has a life, Space has life. All of these

are aggregate concepts; they simply represent different levels of the

organization of intelligence.

 

~ Guruji Sri Amritananda Natha, May 2006

 

 

 

, "mahahradanatha"

<mahahradanatha wrote:

 

*** I never intend to state that there is no particularised self or

me, i don´t understand how you have got this impression. What i wrote

is that there is more than only one self, particularised into the

thinking, emotional and motoric centers of self awareness, located in

the brain, the heart, and muladhara chakras who are disconnected ,

sometimes at war, and sometimes at peace, they do not work together

in harmony but interfere negatively. Yoga and sadhana is about

awareness of these selfs. ***