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The Mandukya Upanishad 3.6 : Swami Krishnananda

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=================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/04/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #What do the nineteen mouths of the Jiva consume?  *Physical objects.  #What do we see?  *Physical objects.  #What do we hear?  *Physical things.  #What do we taste?  *Physical objects.  #And what do we grasp with our hands?  *Physical objects.  #Where do we walk with our feet?  *On the physical earth.  #What do we think in our minds?  *Physical objects.  All the functions of ours through these nineteen mouths are connected with the physical world. Even the ideas that we may entertain in our minds are connected with physical objects.  We cannot think only subtle things, because eve...

The Mandukya Upanishad 3.5 : Swami Krishnananda

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==================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ 16/04/2020. Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-5. ----------------------------------------------------------- 1.Now, while this Cosmic Person, the Virat, may be regarded as the Consciousness of Universal Waking; we are also, in our work of analysis of consciousness in its first phase, concerned with the microcosmic aspect, the state of Jivatva – individuality. It is here that it is supposed to have nineteen mouths. Its mouth is the organ by which we consume things, take in objects, appropriate material by assimilation into our bodies, digest them into ourselves, as it were.  2.This is the function of the mouth. The medium of the reception of objects into our own self is the mouth. In one sense, the eyes also are the mouth, the ears, are the mouth, because they receive and absorb certain vibrations through different functions. Vibrations impinge on our personality th...