'Aihika Jagat'

   The term 'iha' in samskrutam means 'here'. This physical world in which we are living here is a myth, a mysterious one since it comes out of 'nothing' and from 'nowhere'. The mystery lies in the fact that what was 'nothing' had the objective world within it! Moreover, the term 'nowhere' had the principle of time (now as kaal) and space (here akasha) within it! The Time and Space appeared as soon as the Light traveled from the Sun and the objective world manifested as soon as the Lord willed! Thus, no wonder,everything existed in subtler-most invisible form and accrued into gross forms of objects, The sequence is such that supreme brahmn manifests as subtler invisible forms of space (Akasha), and fills it with air (vayu), fire (agni), water (jal), and earth (prithvi). Then, these elements are bestowed with their respective qualities (svabhava) such as nama, rupa, and guna, The Lord created the jiva with sense organs to experience these qualities and entered into them! tad srushtva tadevanupravishat | Thus, everything manifests from subtler to gross forms due to will of the Lord!  The supreme Lord has meticulously planned and executed this phenomenal world, including the jivas! Now, the mystery is clear. This mystery of creation can be seen in every single object that we perceive! Everything in this world, including our physical body, has subtler-most existence as invisible form of bhoot (bhu and ta means 'that which exists on earth')! 

    The aihika jagat is the perceived physical world. It depends on the perceiver. The perceiver is the jiva equipped with the sense organs to perceive this world. This aihika is also 'daihika' since it depends on our physical body, deha. There is also the fundamental principle that, "the perceiver and perceived are 'One' only"! This perceived physical world is transitional and disappears the moment perceiver shifts his/her attention to it! Normally, the jiva refuses to think about this transitional world, aihika jagat as unreal or illusory, mythya. Hence the problem! The physical world (aihika jagat) disappears the moment the jiva realizes how this physical world has come into existence from the combination of the five elements, pancha mahabhuta!

   The most intriguing part of the story is that the transitional phenomenal world of objects is controlled by invisible forces such as time (kaala), space, and causality! Each sense organ has a hundred attractions towards the insatiable sense objects! The jiva suffers from the pull and push of not only these attractions, but the memories of experience in the past, as well. There is no end to this search for happiness. The memory haunts even when the jiva experiences its most desired objects and each and every unfulfilled desire becomes the eed for next birth!