The body

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Om Namah Sivaya

 

Sri Ramakrishna's saying : 'When bound by ties one is

Jiva, and when free from ties one is Siva.'

 

Tirumantiram : (Verse 2122) Body Bag and Maya Bag

The body is a bag

Many the ingredients it holds;

There is yet another bag within;

It is the Maya bag;

When the Thief (Jiva)

The body bag leaves,

The Maya bag

Like dust becomes.

 

Tirumantiram : (Verse 2123) Subtle Body

 

Of the body thus God Shaped,

In part two, Sukshma(Subtle) is one;

That a body of constituents eight is;

Sound, Touch, See, Taste and Smell, Buddhi

(Intellect), Mana (Mind) and Ahankara (Egoity)

Thus the Puriashta body is (subtle).

 

Tirumantiram:(Verse 2123)

Five Indriyas and Three Karanas

 

Of the organs eight thus stated,

First five are Indriyas (External Sense Organs)

The rest three are Karanas (Internal Sense Organs)

To these attached is primordial Pasa's sentience,

Thus he binds them

And unbinds them,

He, the Lord of Forehead-Eye (Siva).

 

Sri Ramakrishnaya Namah

Vivekananda Centre London

http://www.vivekananda.co.uk