3 GOONAS AND CHANGES IN IT OR AVASTHA -ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE

      We all know 3 Goonas -namely SATVIC , RAJASIK AND TAMASIC. We also know that these are in dormant state after PRALAY or end of universe. and then they start activating at the beginning of the universe .But in doing so they go through some changes and each stage has some meaning ,when we talk about the origin of universe. To me that is fascinating and so I thought of TALKING ABOUT IT IN THIS BLOG. 

   The Vedic religion describes 4 different stages or AVASTHA of the 3 Goonas.These are 1. VISHESH, 2. AVISHESH ,3.LING MATRA , 4 . ALING 

   When UNMANIFESTED UNIVERSE becomes MANIFESTED , something happens. There is a disturbance in the calm state of un manifested. This is called GUNASHOBHINI. Until then the 3 Goonas are in perfect balance and calm. So there is no 'SIGN' of any Goonas. So that is called ALING AVASTHA. ;ALINGA means there is no sign of GOONAS . When the disturbance or imbalance starts , that state is called 'LINGA MATRA  AVASTHA' This means it has SIGN . So that state is called LING MATRA AVASTHA. This leads to origin or beginning of MAHAT TATVA When the universe ENDS with what we call PRALAY , all the livings things go dormant , in a singularity and their all desires are gone with them . We can compared this to FROZEN STATE that now a days some living things are 'kept alive. But since the 3 GOONAS are in balance now there is no movement and so that is called ALING AVASTHA    The 5 Great Elements - MAHABHUTE , 5 organs of Action, 5 Organs of perception and ANATHAKARAN . These 16  things together is called VISHESH AVASTHA of 3 Goonas. The 5 TANMATRA and ASMITA - EGO together these 6 elements is AVISHESH STAGE of 3 Goonas.The PRAKRUTI made of these 6 principles with MAHATATVA is the next stage called LINGMATRA AVASTHA . The state of Original PRAKRUTI -un manifested is the ALING AVASTHA.

   The 3 Goonas give rise to certain thing The TAMOGOON gives rise to 5 TANMATRA , namely words, or sound , touch, look, taste and smell.  

The RAJASIC GOONA gives rise to 5 organs of Action , namely hands . legs , speech, procreation and excretion. 

The SATWIC GOONA gives rise to 5 Organs of Perception, namely eyes, nose for smell, tongue for taste and skin for touch and ears for hearing 

SO at the beginning of the universe , the sequence is ALING AVASTHA TO LING MATRA AVASTHA TO AVIVESH AVASTHA TO VISHESH .   

     The disturbance in singularity leads to origin of MAHAT TARTV which gives rise to ASMITA and then the 3 GOONAS give rise to things that are mentioned above. 

   

EFRTILIZED OVUM AND SOUL

       There has been debate about fertilized egg and life. Now a days we have technology to  get ovum out of human body and the fertilize it out side the body and then stored it for future implantation in uterus. This technology is used when a couple  can not conceive naturally. The re are cases where there is a gap of years not days when the fertilized ovum is not implanted in uterus but continues to be frozen and stored in laboratory. So the question is 'is there a soul in this ovum - is there JIV ?' If there is a soul or JIV in this ovum then what is the fate - what kind of karmic influence caused it to be stored in such a sate , where there is no outlet for satisfying desires or get rid of bad Karma ?

   The answer that I am giving is my own opinion and not sure if everyone will agree. The difficulty is in defining the word SOUL. We know LIFE - JIVA but what exactly is the Hindu concept of JIVA ? What leaves when someone dies? I have talked about in my previous blogs either this one or my other ones BRAINSTORM-AVINASH1.BLOGSPOT.COM or PATANGJALISUTRAYOGA.BLOGSPOT.COM.There is a unit of  Physical Body or STHUL SHARIR, Astral body - SUKSHMA SHARIR and Causal body or KARAN SHARIR and there is reflection of Consciousness ABHAS CHAITANYA . When one dies - what is left is Physical body and the other 2 bodies and the reflected consciousness leave the physical body . This unit is looking for new body to fulfill it's desires and repay the debt. But this unit has Mind -Ego Intellect and so it wants to seek such an environment that will fulfill it's desires. This so called soul or JIVA will SELECT parents and family and circumstances where it can satisfy this. It will not come to any fertilized egg ,unless it is implanted in uterus of human being. So even though there is consciousness pervading EVRYTHING including this fertilized ovum, it is not having so called JIVA. Once this fertilized egg is implanted in uterus -now the unit or JIVA knows what to expect in that life and it will descend or enter the fertilized egg.

   In my thinking JIVA is consciousness - reflected which is ignorant and has itself decided to be confine with the Astral body- Causal body unit and does not realize the FREE nature. So it is confined to THAT BODY. 

THE ORIGIN OF THOUGHT OR 4 LANGUSGES IN VEDIC WAY

       I had done a story, where I had asked a question if something is an affair . Does a 'bad thought ' constitute an action or does it constitute KARAMA ? My answer was unless there are repeated thoughts , it does not cause KARMA .In comments someone states that we should have control over thoughts. My answer was we can try and sometimes the circumstances are such that we lose the control over our thoughts. Then I started thinking as to what is the origin of our thoughts ?That lead to today's blog.

    The question is how and why we get certain thoughts or for that matter any thought. The answer is in our law of Karma theory. For those who have not read my book on Amazon please check out 'LAW OF KARMA ,REINCARNATION AND GENETICS ' published by me. But every thought starts with a wave of thought or effects from our previous Karma, There are 4 levels - stages or states namely -PARAA -PASHYANTI-MADHYAMA- AND VAIKHARI. Noe let us see what these 4 levels are and how they are related to our Karma.

     When a thought wave comes in or arises , it may be due to EXTERNAL stimuli. Say for example I see a cake  and a desire arises in my mind . This is called  PARAA . Now this could be without me seeing a cake . When I am hungry, I will thinks of only things that I have tasted in past and LIKED it . If I had never tasted cake , a thought to eat it will never come to my mind . So that is what law of Karma or circle of mind is . I do an ACTION that causes  impression, that impression leads to Desire  and that leads to again action and so on .If the impression is Bad , then we try to avoid the action that caused bad impression. So that also has DESIRE - but this desire is to avoid what caused bad impression. e.g touching hot plate / fire - the impression of burn leads to Desire to avoid it. So when the circumstances are favorable to eat or materialize our Desires , the thought comes in our mind as a wave. The wave of  the thought is at such a level , that we can suppress it if the surroundings are not conducive to fulfill our desires and is suppressed . But if the circumstances are favorable, then that wave - PARRA  becomes PASHYANTI. PASHYANTI  means  VISUALISE. We visualize the wave that came as ripple in water or  wave in mind. Now we see the cake . That is transferred to next stage or level called MADHYAMA . The MADHYAMA MEANS MIDDLE This means what we see is now named and that now is a real thought  and then we say in whatever language we speak or think - verbalize - the verbalization is called VAIKHARI. This is last stage . 

  The mind cannot think unless it has been exposed to something in past . I will not have love or good feelings for someone or dislike  or hatred for someone , unless I have KNOWN and had some interaction with that person in past  and that meeting had left us with some IMPRESSIONS - love or hate , like or dislike. And sometimes the thoughts come so fast that we can not prevent it. 

   In my personal opinion , unless we have a repeated thoughts of hatred -dislike or lust for someone or something - it does not become a deep KARMA  as would be if we ACT on our thoughts. 

  So we have 4 languages or stages of thoughts before we have spoken words. 

CAN LIFE BE EXTENDED BY SAGES ?

      We have often seen stories of sages or great souls , blessing and then the life is extended. We have heard that some dying person was blessed by some sage and then he got cured and then he lived for long time. If we believe that the PRESENT LIFE duration is PRE DETERMINED  at the time of birth.. At  the time of birth , it is determined as to which Karma from Sanchit Karma are going to fruition, So when those Karma are fulfilled - come to fruition, then our life ends . Again at the same time the Karma hat we do in present life -some of them will come to fruition in this life and some will be STORED as Sanchit and some of them will come to fruition in this life . So our present life duration is combination of those 2.So how can this be changed by someone's blessings?  

     The highly evolved souls have knowledge and control over past lives and Karmas. No one can alter the effects of the karma , but one can select when they come to fruition. So when sage blesses someone to extend the life, he is in essence, he is BORROWING SOME EFFECTS OF KARAMA that was stored to be effective in some future life. So if more Karmas are added to come to fruition in this PRESENT LIFE , the present life will continue. Most of the time such extension is of limited duration. This does mean that next life may be shortened  or may stay same if one can get additional Karmas to come to fruition The priciple of 'every karma will have effect ' is still kept intact. .

  The principal is still true . One cannot escape the 

GIVING UP EVERYTHING

     In Hindu religion, we have a concept of 4 stages of life ,so called ASHRAMS. The life is divided in to 4 stages or segments where we are suppose to do certain Duties or function in certain stages. The 1st one is BRAHMACHARY - celibacy and do the study and get education .The second is GRUHASTHASHRAM -Having a family life and get married and have children and have a family. In the next one or 3rd one which is called VANAPRASTHASRAM. In this stage one needs to start disowning everything .and so one must 'give up ' everything . The next one is SANYAS ASHRAM In this stage of life one leaves EVERYTHING AND DEVOTES LIFE for God worship or meditating to achieve MOKSHA.

    So the question is why one has to GIVE UP EVERYTHING to do mediation or achieve MAKSHA ?Why can one live with family , have a home , car , bank account etc. and still do the mediation. We see the same thing . When we see sages or SWAMIES ,they  don't own anything and even when they change from householder's life to one of SANYASI - they change the name . In fact the ceremony that is done is 2 folds . One is to perform 'LAST RIGHTS'-So called SHRADHA and then naming ceremony. The idea is to start new life and have no connection with even the PREVIOUS LIFE. When we have family and possessions, we have Attachments and that not only binds us but also disturbs our n=mind. When one meditates , one is asked to do it at 4 am when environment is quite - for today  less traffic noise, TV , radio etc. are off and since every one is sleeping , the noise is less . We chant SHANTI for 3 times - is for the same reason - no disturbance from external and internal disturbance and also from our past karmas - that is 3 things. If we try to meditate, with the family and all the possessions , our mind will be disturbed by thinking about our car - home - our children and grand children , duties as householder and we cannot concentrate at the time of meditation. 

    So one has to have detachment from everything and I mean everything and that is why all the Swamies are not married , have family or own anything.

AHINSA -NONVIOLENCE

 The AHINSA in PATANJALI SUTRA YOGA is NON VIOLANCE .It is often discussed and misunderstood . What does exactly is meant by not doing violence. We have great examples of nonviolence in politics and then at the same time we have people who resorted to violence. Is the violence ever permitted or any violence is  justified .But first we have to define  what is violence . 

   The violence could be physical and also mental. Many a times lot of people don't know or think that mental action is violence. The violence can be done DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY. When some one eats meat - they may not have KILLED the animal by themselves, but it is still violence and they are responsible for the killing. I may not have cooked the food but it was cooked for me to eat and then I am responsible for that. The same holds true for actual beating of someone. I could beat someone which is very obviously violence . But I could give a contract for beating someone and it may be difficult or impossible for some one to trace that to me. But still I AM RESPONSIBLE . So the direct and indirect action if that leads to pain and suffering it is VIOLENCE. The same holds true for violence in thought . I feel that if we have bad thought-like someone needs to get some punishment or beating -that is a violence even though  there was no physical beating. If we have a transient thought of beating someone and do not dwelt on it and do repeated thinking of physical violence then the effecet is minimal or none. But if we continue to think of the SAME THOUGH over and again , then it has an effecet and gthat is violence and a bad karma.

     If there is bad speech by which we we insult someone or encourage violence against some one , it is violence even though we have not done physical violence  ourselves. 

   So in defining violence - we say KAYA-VACHA- MANA- BODY- SPEECH- MIND -one must not do violence. 

MORE ABOUT CHAKRAS

     I did write about the Chakras  and I did a you tube video on the same .If you are interested in watching the video, please check out Just A talk @justatalk2648.The information that I wrote in last blog is related to PANCHMAHABHUTE or the GREAT elements that are involved in making this universe . As I had stated that these element undergo what is called PANCHIKARAN and then the micro and macrocosm are created. But today I am talking about Human body and the nerve plexus. In Anatomy we do know that the nerves come out of spinal column and then form what is referred to as plexus. These plexus are present at various levels of spine and are named in the same way as the vertebra are. In Hindu religion , we have these nerve plexus called as chakras . As I understand it ,they are in ASTRAL BODY or SUKSHM SHARIR and as one knows the Astral body and Causal Body-also known as KARAN SHARIR, are glued together along with Physical Body when we are alive. These Chakras rotate and they have one letter Mantra to stimulate.

   The lowest level in spine is coccyx - tail bone and we have a CHAKRA named as MULADHAR CHAKRA. The deity controlling this is GANAPATI  and it is related to the great element of PRUTHVI or the Earth -SOLID element. It is related to the physical body function of Excretion. It has 4 petals and it's color is red . In Mahabharat Sahadeo represents this chakra and it is the related to our previous life SAUSHARAS or impressions. 

    The next one - higher up -is the SACRAL area CHAKRA  named SWADHISTAN CHAKRA. Th controlling deity is BRAHMA. and it is related to the great element of WATER -LIQUID element. It is related to the physical body function of PROCREATION and it has 6 petals and the color is orange. In Mahabharat NAKUL represents this Chakra and it is related to function of obeying the rules and emotional balance. 

   Just as a note , the physical body spinal column ends at Lumbar area and the sacral and coccyx nerves just come out of bony spine at sacral and coccygeal area, we do not have spinal column at that level . 

 The higher up at Lumbar level is the Chakra named MANIPOOR . It is related to the great element of FIRE or Energy. The controlling deity is VISHNU . It is Yellow in color and has 10 petals and it has function of SELF CONTROL Arjun represents this Chakra in Mahabharat.

    The next and in dorsal spine or at the level of heart is the Chakra named ANAHAT. It is related to the great element of WIND-AIR The controlling deity is RUDRA. It has 12 petals and the color is green . The function is controlling PRANA or energy or breath. Bhima from Mahabharat is the representing this Chakra. 

    The next one is located at the Cervical spine or THROAT area . It is called VISHUDHHA Chakra. It is related to the great element of ETHER or SPACE - AKASH . It has 16 petals and color is blue, .It has function of self control, speech etc. .Panchavakra SIVA is the deity controlling it. Dharmaraj from  Mahabharat is the representative of the representative. 

   There are 2 more Chakras and they are called AADNYA CHAKRA and SAHASARA CHAKRA .

I will write about them in next blog. The Chakras also rotate and when one does meditation , he has to concentrate on the Chkra and try to imagin rotation by saying the MANTRA.