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sanatanadhara · 4 years

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What is Jiva & Atman & Samisti Jiva (Cosmic Soul)?

Jiva (also pronounced as jeeva), is the innate or primordial force which inherits this body which tethers both the Physical body (Sthula:shareera) and subtle body (Sukshma:sharera), and wears it like a cloth. It is not bound by kaal (time), meaning it doesn’t age, nor grows old or weak. This jiva makes us recognize one’s own existence in a given time but, is not aware of its true self or its true source. It can be interpreted as a soul, but a jiva is nothing but an agitation or vibration of Brahman. This agitation within Brahman is to create a temporary state of “absence-of-consciousness-of-Brahman”, meaning Brahman (the infinite awareness) within itself creates a momentary agitation to temporarily mask the notion of the supreme consciousness, this temporary absence-of-consciousness-of-Brahman is called the Jiva. Hence, Jiva is attributed to Shakti (agitation) and not to Consciousness, whereas Atman is attributed to Consciousness. This Jiva is unaware of itself and the supreme consciousness, so thinking manifests in it, and consequently the mind manifests as a psychological process. Though in this momentary state the Supreme Infinite consciousness abundance its Infinite state there is no real transformation in Brahman as there are no two entities, one Brahman and other Jiva. This “Psychological Framework” of a Jiva is called the Antakarana. This mind is vague, and imaginative due to the lack of clarity of its true self. This thinking then entertains the five elements and merges with them as a basis to physicality (Prakriti = Shakti) so, respectively results in the manifestation of sense organs. The mind and the sense organs though separate, coincide with each other in a perfect rhythm, as if they are the same. This cosmic Jiva then utters AUM (the pranava) resulting in the manifestation of various objects. This cosmic Jiva now imagines so many objects and oneself in so many ways that all the creation is filled with jivas is multitude of combinations and flavors. This jiva traverses from one body to another and accumulates various tendencies (Vasana) in each life, then takes a new host to shed its karma:phala. The destiny of a jiva is to shed its vasana (inherent habit which constitutes the manas) and realize itself to be the Atman. In many cases, a jiva falsely associates itself to be this body. (Swami Venkatesananda. 1993) A sloka from Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 of Sankhya Yoga, Sloka 13, in which Gitacharya (Sri Krishna) says:

देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।

तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति।।

Meaning, this innate jiva that dwells within a physical body, witnesses childhood, youth, old age and death, but also takes up a new host body and continues the same cycle again. Hence, for this jiva there is no death and the wise who realize this have nothing to grieve.

Rishi Vasistha explains the passage of Jiva to Sri Ram in his Yoga as:

“when there is a cessation of the flow of the life-breath (prana), the consciousness of the individual becomes utterly passive. When the life-breath seizes, the body is said to be ‘dead’ or ‘inert’. The life-breath returns to its source-air-and consciousness freed from memory and tendencies remain as the self. That atomic ethereal particle which is possessed of these memories and tendencies is known as the jiva: and it remains there itself in the space where the dead body is. That jiva now abandons its ideas and what it had been seeing till then, and perceives other things as in dreaming or day-dreaming. After a momentary lapse of consciousness, the jiva begins to fancy that it sees another body, another world, and another life-span.” (Swami Venkatesananda. 1993). In this article let’s look into the following questions, What is a jiva’s purpose? How does one reach ‘jiva Brahma:ikya:siddhi’? After attaining Jiva:brahma:ikya:siddhi does the jiva leave the body? Will everyone reach ‘jiva Brahma:ikya:siddhi’? Can one be happy all the time? In order to explore this, let’s learn some core definitions.

Samisti Jeeva (Cosmic Soul)

When this entire creation with all its beings are considered as one single entity with a life force, that drives its existence in maya (illusion), that cumulative life force (in all beings as one) is called Samisti Jeeva. The concept of creation which is Brahma (one of the trinity, not Brahmam), referred as Hiranyagarbha (golden womb) is considered as the Samisti Jeeva or the Cosmic Jiva. The story goes as follows, when Brahma inhered the concept of creation (within the maya), created various worlds and beings with life force (subsets of Samisti Jeeva) which grew without end or demise, this caused the concept of Rudhra to emerge and advised Brahma to replicate the cosmic loop of creation and dissolution at all levels within His creation. To do this a being called Mrityu Devata (Goddess of Death) was born of Him (hence became His daughter) so as to constantly sprout creation (animation of smaller entities) within the broader creation, and then dissolution of that animation back into the source. Hence creation and dissolution became a duet (or a dance) that exists in the smallest aspect of creation to the highest purview. (Sri Garikapati. N.J.V, n.d., p.1470-1490, Swami Venkatesananda. 1993). Full Article on Life, Rebith, Atman, Upadi, Sukshma/Sthula Sharira, Manas, Avasta and more can be found at : https://sanatanadhara.com/rebirth/

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mrd-gvf · 6 years

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After Sam helped stop Hydra from taking over he decided it was a good time to visit his mother in Harlem.

"Hey mom" "Hi Sammy." "How have you been?" "Good. I saw you on tv yesterday. You saved the world." "I help people, that's my job." "Well you're doing a pretty good job." They have lunch and talk. "Don't forget to take some cookies home and give some to your new friends." His mom loves baking and her famous recipe is her chocolate chip cookies. The best cookies you'll ever taste. "Of course, mom."

As he leaves her apartment he hears a woman calling his name. "Sam Wilson? Is that you?" He turns to look at a woman about his age. She looks familiar but he can't figure out who she is. "It's Misty Knight. You used to know me as Mercedes." Now he remembers. A girl a little bit older than him who lived in the same building as him, this building. He always had a bit of a crush on her but could never admit it.

"Hey Mercedes. How are you doing?" "I'm good. I'm a detective now but I don't think it's as impressive as being a super hero like you." "I wouldn't call myself that." "That's what everyone is saying. But personally I think you were a hero before all of this." Sam blushes. "Really?" "Yeah, you were always looking out for the neighbours. Anyways I gotta go but..." She gets out a piece of paper and writes something on it. "We should catch up sometime over lunch." She hands him the paper with her number on it. "Sure." "Great, I look forward to it." As she walks away Sam smiles to himself.

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