Why the Lord has created Five Senses

[Guest guest]

EESAAVAASYAM IDAM SARVAM.

 

What I understand from this mahavakyam is that, everything

is the abode of lord, and what is meant by VIRAATROOPAM is what all

there is the part and parcel of the Lord’s body itself. It further indicates that there is nothing but

the Lord. The first name in the VISHNU

SAHASRA NAMA is “Om vishvaaya

nama:†Vishvam means everything, all that is concerned as negatives and all

positives.

 

In scriptures, the five senses are depicted as negatives as

they take us to worldly objects. Then it

is thoughtful that, why the Lord created the

senses?.

 

I thought about it through an analogy. In a family, the grand father was everything

for the rest of the members. He was deeply

respected and beloved by each member of the family. One day he died. All members were sitting near his dead body

and were exhausted by prolonged crying.

It seemed that, all the five senses had been subjugated by the grief and

thus become powerless. Eyes were open, but was not seeing anything, Ear was not

hearing any sound, they had no appetite for any food at all, and were simply

sitting near the corpse. Without their

will, the senses had become ineffective to make them enthusiastic.

 

It is felt that, as the time passed by, each and every

senses started working slowly. Even

though they were not in a mood, a comedy scene from a movie could make them

smile. They started enjoying the taste

of foods. Their bodies were unknowingly moving

according to the rhythm of a good song.

And they could come back to the normal state of life slowly and

gradually within a few days.

 

I thought that, this was not possible without the help of

the so called five senses. The senses

have helped their mind to forget about the loss. They have become lively. Then I realized that Why the almighty Lord created such a phenomenon? He created it as negative as well as positive

at the same time. The Lord Himself is

living in each and every being and aspect in the form of self consciousness and

thereby making its swadharm possible.

Fire can be used for cooking foods and also for burning a house.

 

This may be why Sri Krishna says in Gita that,

experience everything, but don’t get bound to anything. Renunciation of “RAAGADWESHAMâ€. Bhagavan was a King, a lover, a husband, a

son, a brother, a friend, even an adviser in the battlefield, but at the same

time He was SREE KRISHNA PARAMAATMA (the supreme reality). Thus whatever,

negatives, or positives, EESAAVAASYAM IDAM SARVAM.

 

OM NAMO BHAGAVATHE

VAASUDEVAAYASURESH C KURUP

 

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