M vedanta/aparokshanubhuti/aparokshanubhuti.tex → vedanta/aparokshanubhuti/aparokshanubhuti.tex

@@ -1060,6 +1060,19 @@ 
 \textbf{20. Âtman is the (supreme) Illuminator and purity itself; the body is
 said to be of the nature of darkness; and yet, etc.}
 
+\begin{oframed}
+
+    Just like how the light that shines upon an object and is not affected by
+    it, in the same way consiousness is not affected by what it illumines. It
+    can reveal a bad thing or a good thing and is not affected by it.
+    Consiousness is the lights of lights and because of it everything is
+    revealed. Everything we know about is because of consiousness and therefore
+    consiousness transcends all that we know. Consiousness is just the
+    illuminer and is apart from all that illumines. Now saying that "this"
+    body is "me" is the most ridiculous thing.
+
+\end{oframed}
+
 \begin{large}
 \begin{center}
     \begin{hindi}
@@ -1099,11 +1112,34 @@ {\small \textit{$^1$The body is ... non-existence in essence} --- The
 body is undergoing change at every moment, and as such, cannot be eternal.
 But granting that it is non-eternal, how can it be non-existent? -- for, so
 long as it lasts we surely see it as existing.
+
+At first sight the body appears to be existing, however temporary its existence
+may by. A relative existence (Vyavahârika Sattâ) is, therefore ascribed to it.
+But when one examines it and tries to find out its real nature, this so-called
+tangible body gradually becomes attenuated and at last disappears altogether.
+It is, therefore, said here that the body, as such, is always non-existent,
+even though it may appear as existing for a time to those who do not care to
+see it through.
+
 }
 
 
 \begin{oframed}
 
+    Any change to be experienced, it should be caused to something that can be
+    experienced by the experiencer. So to feel the change, the change must
+    happen to the object of the experiencer and death is such a change. The
+    experiencer hence is not affected by any change.  Swamiji takes an example
+    of a potato being boiled. When it gets hot, we say that it's a hot potato.
+    It borrows heat from the boiling water and the water inturn borrows heat
+    from the fire. But neither the potato nor the water claim heat as their
+    intrinsic property. That heat soley belongs to the fire. The potato and the
+    water just borrow the heat from the fire. in the same way, existence is
+    borrowed and we are born with this body. Just like how the potato and the
+    water will eventually loose their borrowed heat, in the same way this body
+    will stop existising as it had borrowed its existence from Consiousness.
+    Something that has existence as its intrinsic property will forever be
+    immortal. Such a thing is called Sat.
 
 \end{oframed}