All that exists here on earth come within the grip of Time, Space, and causation, and as such, these are transient, temporary. If a plat or a earthen pot is visible and one can touch and feel their existence, it does not mean they are real. One has to go to their primordial state, the earlier states such as the seed, water, soil, heat and the potency of the seed to sprout that are not immediately visible in the case of the plant, as also, the potter and the clay in the case of the latter. So also the humans that exist for a short span of a hundred or odd years undergo change from birth to death. We do not know how we enter this earth and take a form, despite the fact that the scriptures like the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita explains in great detail as to how jive arrives here and suffers due to ignorance of its true self. We are limited in all our senses, buddhi and exhibit our ego foolishly all the time. Once the jiva realizes the true nature of the self, gets 'Atma-jnyan', its predicament ends. But this 'Self-Realization' will not come easily. One has to pray ardently and get a Redeemer, a Guru.
What the jiva does not understand is that the Atman is the Intransient, where as, the physical body it has constructed for itself is transient, ever-changing. The physical body is made of or the Atman is covered with the pancha koshas (anna, prana,manas, jnyana and ananda, tama, raja, sattva and the ari shadvargas, such as, moha, lobha, mada, matsrya, irshya, krodha, etc.) and the acquired karma phala in course of time. Thus, the jiva suffers because of the avidya, i.e., the vidya covered by moha, mada, krodha, matsarya, etc. The acquired qualities have to be discarded in order to realize the 'Intransient Atman'. This is exemplified in the Gita- Atmanyavatmanotishtha tasya prajnya pratishthita One has to attain an equanimous state of mind, All that is external, such as, the Sense objects, sensuous thoughts, and dealing with wicked persons or persons of worldly interests shall have to be dropped in order to turn inward and realize the Self. Thus the jiva is redeemed, rather, emancipation takes place.
What the jiva does not understand is that the Atman is the Intransient, where as, the physical body it has constructed for itself is transient, ever-changing. The physical body is made of or the Atman is covered with the pancha koshas (anna, prana,manas, jnyana and ananda, tama, raja, sattva and the ari shadvargas, such as, moha, lobha, mada, matsrya, irshya, krodha, etc.) and the acquired karma phala in course of time. Thus, the jiva suffers because of the avidya, i.e., the vidya covered by moha, mada, krodha, matsarya, etc. The acquired qualities have to be discarded in order to realize the 'Intransient Atman'. This is exemplified in the Gita- Atmanyavatmanotishtha tasya prajnya pratishthita One has to attain an equanimous state of mind, All that is external, such as, the Sense objects, sensuous thoughts, and dealing with wicked persons or persons of worldly interests shall have to be dropped in order to turn inward and realize the Self. Thus the jiva is redeemed, rather, emancipation takes place.
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