4."THE SECOND QUARTER IS TAIJASA"

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Mantram-4.


1. I n the previous mantram (3), Life is identified with the physical body, seeing through ignorance of its own Real Nature, perceives  a world of sense-objects.


2. And deluded by its own false perceptions, experiences the waking state; and in this act as a definite personality called the Vaisvanara.


3.Now the same Life Force withdrawing its playful courting in the external world identifies itself with the subtle body (sushma sareeram)  and thus creates a distinct personality called the dreamer or the Taijasa.


4. The Taijasa has its own world of experiences in its dream. The mantram under discussion is giving us an exhaustive narration of the nature of the dreamer, his fields of activity and objects of enjoyment.


5. Taijasa whose sphere of activity is the dream state, who is conscious of the internal world of objects, who has seven organs (limbs) and nineteen faces(mouths) and who enjoys the subtle objects of the mental world.

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