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

@@ -1200,4 +1200,94 @@ nothing, not even to darkness; for it is in and through the light of Âtman,
 which is present in everybody as consciousness, that one comprehends darkness
 as well as light and all other things.}
 
+\begin{oframed}
+
+    We are the light that illumines the objects around us and gives us
+    experiences. All of the experiences we have all are illumined with the
+    light of consciousness. It is the same light that illumines our dreams and
+    our waking state. It is the same light that also illumines our deep sleep.
+    We experience the absense of everything - that experience is itself because
+    of this light. It's not a material light like the light from fire, sun,
+    etc. Any sort of mateial light, removes darkness. Consciousness light
+    reveals the material light and also the darkness. You know it's dark even
+    if there is no material light and that's because of the light of
+    consciousness. By its light, everything is lit up. And who is that light?
+    Its you!
+
+\end{oframed}
+
+
+\begin{large}
+\begin{center}
+    \begin{hindi}
+
+    देहोऽहमित्ययं मूढो धृत्वा तिष्ठत्यहो जनः ।\\
+    ममायमित्यपि ज्ञात्वा घटद्रष्टेव सर्वदा ॥ २३ ॥
+
+    \end{hindi}
+\end{center}
+\end{large}
+\texttt{7-28:10}
+
+\texthindi{अहो}
+Alas
+\texthindi{मूढः}
+ignorant
+\texthindi{जनः}
+person
+\texthindi{घटद्रष्टेव}
+like a person seeing a pot
+\texthindi{ममायमिति}
+that this is mine
+\texthindi{सर्वदा}
+ever
+\texthindi{ज्ञात्वा}
+knowing
+\texthindi{अपि}
+even
+\texthindi{अहं}
+I
+\texthindi{अयं}
+this
+\texthindi{देहः}
+body
+\texthindi{इति}
+that
+\texthindi{धृत्वा}
+holding (the view)
+\texthindi{तिष्ठति}
+rests (contented).
+
+\bigskip
+
+\textbf{23. How strange is it that a person ignorantly rests contented with the
+idea that he is the body,$^1$ while he knows it as something belonging to him
+(and therefore apart from him) even as a person who sees a pot (knows it as
+apart from him)!  }
+
+{\small \textit{$^1$The idea that he is the body} --- This is the view of
+Laukâyatikas (Indian materialists) who maintain that men is no more than a
+fortuitous concourse of material elements. According to them the five elements
+of matter, through permutations and combinations, have given birth to this body
+as well as to life and consciousness, and with death everything will dissolve
+into matter again.
+
+\begin{oframed}
+
+    It's so absured to say, ``the body is mine and I am the body".  If we think
+    about it we don't use such language for any other thing - do we say, ``This
+    is my bottle and I am the bottle" or ``This is my car and I am the car".
+    See how absured it sounds? Then why do we say this about our body? We
+    sometimes say it's ``my body" and sometimes we refer it with ourselves
+    saying things like, ``I weigh 60 Kgs". So how can something that belongs to
+    me, be me? If we say that ``I am this body" and my goal of life is to take
+    care of this body and provide it pleasures then I will be miserable.
+    Swamiji says it's a tyranny! You are not the body! You are something
+    greater than that. We start serving our bodies and forget our true nature
+    like ignorant fools - we start pleasing the body. The fool starts holding
+    on to this body.
+
+\end{oframed}
+
+
 \end{document}