Afun

I can see that the living being when considered in material position is called false ego. (yes?)

I'm not sure how the living being is being called when in spiritual position; is it sat-chit-ananda?

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Hi,

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1) Antaranga shakti - internal potency (yoga-maya)

sat - samvit - e(x?)ternal potency

chit - sandhini - knowledge potency

ananda - hladini - pleasure potency

 

danyavaads already mentioned that She is hladini-shakti, beyond the 3 modes of material nature...What about sat and chit? Is She also sat and chit?

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Fascinating, did you notice the bird-like insect to the left of the (other) flying machine hieroglyphs?

lol

danyavaads,

You mentioned hladini-shakti. How many categories/shakti-es are known?

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All that is past, present, and future is but Om. Whatever transcends the three periods of time, too, is Om.

Dear Bart Happel,

Please accept my apologies for anything you may have found offensive in this thread from me by now.

Sorry for not replying you in a much better way...

Regards, afun

gHari,

sorry if you think like that.

Personally i find it like an information to (try to) remember but i do not understand it now...

Bart Happel,

Why cant you or someone just answer the simple questions, and the answer is easily revealed...

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Hi,

The three portions of AUM relate to the states of waking, dream and deep sleep and the three gunas (rajas, satva, tamas)

The Vaiṣṇavas interpret oḿkāra as follows: by the letter O, Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is indicated; by the letter U, Kṛṣṇa's eternal consort Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is indicated; and by the letter M, the eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord, the living entity, is indicated.

1.) Is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī rajas or tamas guna?

2.) Is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī aparā-prakṛti (māyā)? 8 elements (gross+subtle) or 5 elements (gross)?

In all Vedic literatures, including Bhagavad-gītā and Viṣṇu Purāṇa, much evidence is given to distinguish between the energy and the energetic. In Bhagavad-gītā (Bg. 7.4) it is clearly stated that earth, water, fire, air and ether are the five principal gross elements of the material world and that mind, intelligence and false ego are the three subtle elements. All material nature is divided into these eight elements which together comprise the inferior nature, or energy, of the Lord. Another name for this inferior nature is māyā, or illusion. Beyond these eight inferior elements there is a superior energy, which is called parā-prakṛti. That parā-prakṛti is the living entity, who is found in great numbers throughout the material world. He is indicated in Bhagavad-gītā (Bg. 7.5) as jīva-bhūtām. The purport is that the Supreme Lord is the Absolute Truth, the energetic, and as such He has His energies. When His energy is not properly manifested, or when it is covered by some shadow, it is called māyā-śakti. The material cosmic manifestation is a product of that covered māyā-śakti.

I remember having heard the example of the three modes are like the basic colours, red, blue and yellow. Out of these three colours, by mixing, millions of other colours can be generated. This is how the variety of the material world is created.

Can't we generate all other colours from just 2 basic colours?

( ttp://answers./question/index?qid=20060627172002AABv2xT, etc.)

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Hi,

why are there 3 gunas and not 1 or 2, etc?

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The fourth state is samadhi.

And there are two definitions of samadhi:

- Impersonalists definition of samadhi and

- Personalists definition of samadhi.

And the interpretation of samadhi is the arguing topic between Advaitins and Dvaitins (Achintya-Bheda-Abheda for example).

Is this correct?

Thank you for replies.

Is it correct to say that the first three states (waking state, dream state, deep sleep state) are considered material and the forth state (turiya) is spiritual/transcendental)?

Hi,

Where are these three states first mentioned and described?

Are these three states understood in the same way by all Vedic schools?

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