"SENSATION"

    The  human forms are the finest of all creation! Of all the species of life and their forms the human form is better equipped to experience the nature. There are five senses and the Mind that give an upper hand to humans over the animals, birds and plants. There is no doubt that the animals, birds and plant life-forms do experience and exhibit their intelligence. But the humans are equipped with the power of giving a verbal expression to their understandings and experience.  However, the humans are yet to develop the potential vested in them to experience the highest! 

   Sensation is an activity that depends on many factors. The basis of all experience is consciousness followed by intelligence (buddhi) and ego; ego (aham) is said to be the experiencer, the purusha who experiences. What one experiences is also something reaffirmed or retrieved from memory! Hence, aham (the I) already knows it. For those who think that they are experiencing anything for the first time, it must be said that they have forgotten their previous birth's experiences. Since the "Atma knows all" is the fundamental principle everything we experience is what we have already experienced and retrieved from memory! Moreover, who experiences what?

   What all one experiences is the materials of the objective world. There is nothing beyond the Mind! Everything comes within the purview of the mind and, mind is nothing but consciousness! One can experience whatever is presented to the senses and the mind by the buddhi and the prajnya. None xan experience anything whatever, even if it is physically present in front of the eye unless the mind fixes (focus) attention on it prompted or prodded by desire (iccha). Desire the prime mover. Buddhi is the agent of 'aham', the I, who wants to experience. In a way the entire life is thus, one of mere experiences that is nothing but memory, in a sense! Everything becomes a thing of the past and hence a memory since time is fleeting! There is nothing like present since it(the present, tense, is the product of a future, presented to us for a moment, and pushed out, thrust behind into a trash can of memeries. Thus we revel as if we are enjoying not knowing that it is just a momentary experience, neither true nor false!

    The five sense that help the jiva to experience its desired objects or even the unsavory ones, are controlled by a number of intricate factors. Every dense organ like the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and the skin are supported by their respective deities like the fire, air, space, water and earth! These deities are  explained diagrammatically in Sri-Chakra as the akarshini, vashini, nityas and the like. Unless there is a powerful force behind our desirre that prompts us to look for some experience, the jiva will not bother about anything! It is kaal (Time), vidhi (fate) Luck (adrushtha) ot destiny that prompts desire and the jiva runs after it (the desired object). Hence the jiva does not know initially what it wants and goes after something that the extraneous factors decide for it. The jiva is thus governed by a number of extraneous unseen and unknown factors. This is termed as fate or karma or the fruits of previous actions- prarabhdha, or sanchita karma! .