Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, January 30, 2021. 07:58. AM. SECTION 5: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE THREEFOLD NATURE - 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annamayam hi saumya manah apomayah pranah tejomayi vag iti; bhuya eva ma bhagavan vijnapayatv iti; tatha saumya, iti hovaca. "My dear boy, listen to the conclusion of my research. The mind is essentially formed of food, the prana is essentially formed of water and speech is essentially formed of fire." The boy says, "It is very difficult for me to understand all these things. Please clarify this a little more. These are unheard of things that you are telling me, that I am made up of the three elements, that I have nothing in me of my own. This is strange indeed. It looks as if I cannot exist at all independently. I am 'somebody else'. Unbelievable! Ple

  ------------------------------------------- Monday, January 18, 2021. 09:54. AM. SECTION 5: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE THREEFOLD NATURE - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Annam asitam tredha vidhiyate, tasya yah sthavistho dhatus tat purisam bhavati, yo madhyamas tan mamsam, yo'nisthas tan manah" : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The food that you eat is converted into three forms. What happens to the food that is eaten? There is a gross form of the food, there is a middling form of the food and a subtle form of the food. The food that we eat is not entirely absorbed into the system. Some part of it is thrown out as excreta, as unwanted material which cannot be absorbed into the system. It is refuse that goes out as undesirable to the system; that is the grossest form. So one part of the food goes out; something else only is absorbed. That