Sai Baba Gita - The 24 Impermanent Principles

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The 24 Impermanent Principles

In addition to the gross and subtle senses there are also the five life energies

which vitalize all bodily functions. One of these is related to breathing,

another to elimination, a third to circulation, the fourth to digestion and the

fifth to the upward flow which energizes the higher centers. Besides the 15

principles enumerated above, there are the four faculties comprising the 'the

inner instrument'. This inner instrument is made up of all the different

aspects of what we know as 'mind'. It consists of the thinking faculty which

analyzes and reacts; the intuitive faculty, also known as buddhi, which knows

the deeper purpose of life and discriminates between the real and the unreal;

the subjective individual expression or ego self which is associated with the

personality; and the reservoir of feelings and memory wherein the effects of

past actions are stored.

All of the foregoing are contained within the five sheaths. These sheaths can be

thought of as various bodies interpenetrating one another in a successively more

subtle way, each one finer than the previous one. The grossest sheath is the

food sheath which comprises the physical body. It is made up of physical

matter. Next, the first of the subtle, intangible sheaths, is the vital sheath.

It relates to the life breath and physical energy. Then there is the mind sheath

which relates to the lower mind. The fourth sheath is the intellectual sheath.

It is associated with the higher mind wherein the buddhi, the intuitive,

discriminating faculty, is contained. These last-mentioned three sheaths, the

vital, the mind, and the intellectual, all make up the subtle body of man.

Finally, there is the bliss sheath, the subtlest of all the bodies. It is known

as the causal body. It is beyond all aspects of mind. It is the source of all

mind stuff. Within it, only a thin veil of ignorance

remains to hide the true self, which is pure bliss.

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