Wednesday, April 22, 2015

SADHANA PAD-SUTRA 5

                                      ANITYA  ASHUCHI  DUKHANAM  ANNATMASU

                                       NITYA   SHUCHI   SUKHA ATMAKHYATIR

                                                                   AVIDYA

WHEN ONE THINKS OF A THING WHICH IS CHANGING OR NON ETERNAL TO BE CHANGELESS OR ETERNAL , IMPURE TO BE PURE ,GIVING PLEASURE WHEN IT IS SORROW CAUSING AND NON SELF TO THE SELF , IT IS IGNORANCE

The ignorance is commonly used term . We could be ignorant of physics or chemistry or sports or politics.But that is not what this sutra is talking about . They are talking about different things .When we 'think' of something as eternal when in actuality is mortal , that is ignorance . Many a times we are told that this world is not 'real' ,but just a dream of the God. But in religion when we say it is not real, we mean that it is "changing". We think that the body is real,but it is changing all the time . Infant becomes child and the child becomes youth and young adult becomes adult . The adult grows old and then dies.The body disintegrates in to 5 great elements, the 'PNACHA MAHABHUTAS' .So even when we we think that body is real (not unchanging , which is real definition of real or unreal ).
     We also think things which are not body is pure , but is it ? The body has flesh , blood , urine and excreta and many other things that are far from being 'pure'. We do every thing for this body .We decorate it put cosmetics , on it dress it well and love it .But what happens when we are sick or when we are dead?Is that body pure?So again we confuse impure for pure.
     If we are asked if ice cream gives us pleasure or not or having a million dollars will make on happy or not . Invariably the answer will be thy all are things that will give us pleasure.But is it true? The pleasure that we get is 'transient' and may be that the source of the pleasure. If I like ice-cream and feel that it gives me pleasure, then when I don't get the ice cream , then I will be unhappy. So indirectly it is causing sorrow. If I have a million dollars , then I would worry that some one may steal it or I may invest it and loose them etc. So the worry that it will bring would be causing sorrow rather than happiness.
     Sometimes the happiness is in mind and not in the external source. If stake was the source of the happiness then all will be happy . But we know that vegetarian people do not find pleasure in eating stake.If happiness is in having sex, then rape will also be pleasurable. So the happiness is in our mind.
     The last part is we thinking that the SELF is our body or mind or intellect But we all the time think that the self is body . That is why we refer to our body as self. In reality SELF is real does not have any qualities or Gunas, The Gunas are related to Nature and not self. So the physical body , the mind the chitta and the intellect are all part of Nature and not self . But we all the time confuse  these things  for Self. This is the last part of the sutra We confuse Self for NON SELF.

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