CONVICTION

'Etymology' is a very interesting science that deals with the origin of the words. Those who are interested in the study of the structure of language take to philology. However, not all know the real origin of the sound, alpha and beta of the languages! The ancient scriptures numbering more than two hundred Samhita of Agama shastra give more details about all these subtler aspects! Srividya is full of these secrets! The sounds emanate from the elements due to the friction, vibration and movement of molecular functions. Each and every element has its subtler and most subtle state states that create vibration due to the molecular movements. The sounds emanate from sky, air, fire, water and earth and all that are associated with these! For humans, the sense organs are the recipients. The order of creation depicts how the human beings are structured. The elemental body develop the sense organs to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel! The mind is closely associated with these. However, what we do not understand here is the way these sounds are created within our own physical self! The air we breath create the sounds. the fire and water create sounds within us. These are the functions of the life-force, 'prana'. Thus what is outside is also within us!

   Now, as regards this term 'conviction', it is interesting to find that the humans are endowed with the power of analysis, discern, dissect, discuss, and divulge! We can think and understand the secrets of creation. One such discovery is that "we are all born free but always in bondage!" This bondage is the trick (con) of knowledge (sci).We exclaim! We are Conscious! Con, sci, O, I, us  (am tricked into bondage)! This bondage is eternal. We, the humans are tricked into eternal bondage due to our insatiable desires, dreams and aspirations and unfulfilled tasks! We take repeated births to complete the unfinished tasks and acquire desires again and again an thereby face endless bondage. Each death is like a repeated attempt towards the fulfillment! This is how we become 'convicts', victims of the trick of knowledge. It is actually, ignorance, knowledge covered by desire, that makes us convicts, prisoners! This is the secret of our life. This is simply expressed in the words like Conscience, Consciousness, convicts, etc.!  

 Th same is true of the Samskruta bhasha. The words like ja, jnya, pra, prajnya are all beautiful! They convey us secret knowledge of creation. For instance, 'ja' means 'birth'. Here 'janya' means 'of birth'. the term 'pra' means 'prior'. Thus, 'prajnya' means 'prior knowledge of birth'!  In fact, 'prajnya' means, 'consciousness' (prajnya), 'conscience' (prajnye),  meaning, 'the trick of knowledge that creates'! This is what the great Acharya Shankara, an intellectual, deciphered and stated it as the doctrine of  'jagat mythya/. Al that is created here is an illusion! As our conscience, prajnya, declines, we forget 'who we are, the true self'?