AITAREYA UPANISHAD - 29. Rishi Maheedasa Aitareya.

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Tuesday,  13 Jun,  2023.  06:15.

PART 3: Chapter 5, 4 Mantras

“CONSCIOUSNESS IS BRAHMAN”

Here begins the First Chapter (No.5) of Part 3

Mantram -5.2: “Visishta” – Associated Consciousness at Individual Level

Post-29.

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Mantram -5.2: “Visishta” – Associated Consciousness at Individual Level

"Yadetad hrdaym manas - caitat

samjnanam-ajnanam vijnanam prajnanam

medha drstir-dhrtir-matir-manisa jutih smritih

samkalpah kraturasuh kamo vasa iti

sarvanye-vaitani prajnanasya

namadheyani bhavanti."

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The Jeeva or Individual Soul :

3 Hridayam: “heart”. Now is described the reflected consciousness or Consciousness 

in association with the body, mind, intellect, memory and ego-sense. This has a Visishta

relationship that produces the Jeeva. The very nature of the Jeeva is to want to stand out 

from other Jeevas, by being as unique as possible. 

4 Sixteen ways in which Jeevas differ from each other are now listed:

The first fourteen of these faculties belong to the Subtle body. They are faculties of 

the inner instruments, mainly the mind and the intellect. They cover an enormous range.

i) Samjnaanam: “clarity of perceptions”. This is the the team effort of senses, mind 

and intellect functioning together. Clarity is a major factor that differentiates Jivas.

ii) Aajnaanam: “lordship”. People have different capacities of being in charge.

iii) Vijnaanam: This is “discriminative understanding”, the role of the intellect.

iv) Praajnaanam: “comprehension, knowledge, intelligence”.

v) Medha: “retentive memory”; the capacity to remember the import of books.

vi) to xiv) These cover the Pranas. All the items mentioned thus far are part of the.

Now we have two faculties that belong to the Causal body: 

xv) & xvi) Kaamah, Vashah: These two consist of the bundle of desires, attachments 

and tendencies which are the cause of this human birth.

5 All the above sixteen faculties of the Jeeva are considered to be different names 

and forms through which Prajnaanam operates as Visishta Chaitanya in the Jeeva.

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Mantram - 5.3A: Unassociated & Associated Consciousness at All Levels

To be continued

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