Entanglements

   The pristine soul, a particle of stellar dust-like particles of energy emanated by distant stars reaching the earth as electromagnetic radiation particles have embodied in embedded shells of various types of living beings, the jivarashi, here on earth. Our soul, atman, core of the entity, is an invisible energy source for the jiva, a battery constantly recharged from stellar sources. The soul is by itself a radioactive  or thermonuclear energy source and can support the living being, jiva, endlessly, albeit, subject to the ability of the capacity of the body to sustain itself from this source. Unfortunately, the body does not tap this source and depends on external supply of food for it build and growth, and finally dissipates. The soul is by itself an independent entity surrounding which different types of bodies such as plant, fish or frog, birds, or animals which develop and function in different forms! This embodiment is not clearly understood by either the scientists or the pundits- reading spiritual texts which describe the secrets, as in the Bhagavad-Gita or the Veda and the agama shastras.

    There are trillions and trillions of cells in the body of the living beings and each cell is of unique type performing specialized functions fully aware of its role in the function of the body.The trillion and odd brain cells perform functions that cannot be enumerated and pace at which they function is mysteriously fast, almost instantaneous! The way in which one single cell that carried the sperm after impregnation divided and subdivided into trillions and trillions with specialized functions is a mystery that can never be understood by us. Still we boast of inventions and progress!

    The nerves and neurons that carry life-forces, knowledge,emotions and even ideas and imagination need be clearly understood. The entire human body works on the whims and fancy of the mind and its moods. The physical organs play a secondary role and the role of the nerves and neurons cannot be underestimated here. In fact, who is the boss that runs the life? Is it the soul, the buddhi, the ego, or the mind? It is sad that an ignorant fickle mind is driven by the ego and the buddhi also plays second fiddle here, and the jiva gets entangled in the mire of earthly, mundane existence and suffers. There is no hope for this jiva as long as it does not realize who the boss is. When the buddhi (intellect) turns to prajnya (Consciousness) and gets the light of the soul it attains its goal! Yoginaam brahma bhavati saratahi | 

    This entangled jiva should dismantle all that it has acquired and woven around itself as the annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, jnyana and anandamaya koshas and get out of the clutches and limitations of time and space and be free from all its inhibitions. The jiva, once it is free from its limitations, will be supreme! This it can achieve by taking recourse to yoga. In samadhi yoga, one can reduce all the trillions of the cells into a molecule and thereby get the unitary state of consciousness (ritambhara prajnya). This is the divine state! All the mundane cravings disappear in this state.