Three-fold nature

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We have the Modern Anotomy of understanding the human constitution. We know many

things relating to the same.Most advanced things are taught in Modern Anatomy.

Much more advanced things are taught in Ancient Anatomy.But we do now know

them.The ancient taught many more things which the moderns never taught and they

are yet  to know.We need not spend much time on Modern Anatomy because any

preliminary text book will give it. For example, in Modern Anatomy, we have bony

system, musclar system, cutaneous system, circulatory system, respiratory

system, nervous system,digestive system,excretory system and lymphatic

system.Both are consider the same. Glandular system is other wise called the

endocrine system.These glands are xalled the ductless glands.This is only a

little example  of the divisions of modern teaching of anatomy.Each division has

its own details much to teach. This  is a sepatate branch of science in itself.

For this, you can approach any doctor who can teach you carefully. You can

follow this subject with his help, carefully read and make yourself sufficient

with in two  or three years, otherwise, you may become a qualified practitioner

without knowing. Either way, you can go.

 

Now what is the Anatomy of the ancients? Everybody has two parts, Jiva and

Deha.This is the first division. Jiva  means the indweller and Deha means the

subsistence or the vehicle .The indweller  and his vehical are just like the

chariot and the person who is travelling, the traveler.We can say they are like

the traveler and the van or the indweller  and his horse.This is a two-fold

division. The driver and the traveler are one before the traveler comes out of

the driver, because the whole creation was only one space before it came out.

Before the solar system come out, there was only space, but after solar sytem

comes out, there is space and solar system.Like  that, there is only one

indweller at first.Fron indweller, there will be a bifurcation again, the driver

and the traveler.The traveler is the Jiva and the driver is the Lord

consciousness inside.And the indweller or Jiva is also  called purusha or

person.The word person has come out of the word purusha. Purusha means person,

because person means purusha. Deha is called prakriti, that means his nature.

Purusha and prakriti are person and his nature.His nature is to have a

subsistence.

 

THREE FOLD NATURE

 

His nature is three-fold.Rajas,Tamas and Sattwa. Rajas is dynamism. Tamas is

inertia. Sattwam is poise . Suppose there is a cart drawn by a horse. If the

horse and the cart are well- suited to each other, i.e . , if the cart is that

heavy to be drawn by the horse and the horse is capable of drawing the cart , it

is called Sattwam or poise.But if the horse is very capable and the cart is

rotten, it is called Rajas or dynamism . In this context, the cart will fall

down. On the other hand, if the cart is very heavy and the horse is lame, then

cart cannot move.This is called Tamas or inertia.From Tamas, matter is born.From

Rajas, energy is born. In Sattwam, consciousness is not born, please remember.It

makes its manifestation . It was already there before all these came.Nobody need

say that we are waking up from sleep. We know ourselves. Knowing our selves is

what is called consciousness.It exists in degress. Thousands and thousands of

degress are awakening from mineral kingdom to the highest of human kingdom.

 

[Master, at this movement, has taken a pause and exhorted the students in the

following way. Is this clear so far? Is there any confusion? Meanwhile one among

the students sought clarification regarding some term.Then Master clarified the

distinction between teaching and conference thus, what I am understanding is

teaching. This is not a conference. There is difference between teaching and

lecture.In lecture, we can follow any order; but in teaching we should follow an

order which gives the student a clear cut idea which can never be forget, so we

follow the order].

 

Prakriti is three fold. That is, prakriti has three functions. Now let us take

up the term Jiva. Do you know why we call zoo? What does it mean? Living beings.

So the word Jiva is the root of all such words, Ji means to live va means being.

Jiva means living being. We have another word Zodiac. Zodiac is a guide which

contains the mould of all living beings. It contains the moulds [the designs,

the patterns] of all living beings. In India, some idol - makes have with them a

mould of the shapes of Lord Vinayaka. They put the clay into this mould and

brings out the idols. The moulds of all types of living beings exist around the

belt of space above the equator. That is why it is called Zodiac. It is due to

these moulds in the Zodiac that the matter on the earth takes the shapes of the

physical bodies of living beings. But for this phenomenon, how can the shape of

physical body stand ? These shapes are unable to stand by themselves .This topic

belongs Astrology.

 

We have noted Jiva and Deha. We find prakriti and its three functions. Now

something more about matter is being dealt with.

 

Tobe continued..

 

 

courtesy-Master E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A