The Mandukya Upanishad 3.6 : Swami Krishnananda

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29/04/2020.
Section - 3. The Universal Vaisvanara-6.

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#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 even the subtle things that we may try to think are only impressions of the perception of physical objects. 

We cannot think anything super-physical. 

We are therefore on earth, in a physical world, in a physical universe. Our consciousness is tethered to the physical body, and the counterpart, cosmically, of this physical consciousness, is Vaisvanara. 

This is Jagaritasthana, the waking abode of consciousness, waking in the sense that it is wakeful to the physical world, it is aware of the physical world, and it knows nothing other than the physical world.

To be continued ...

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