Textual Tuesday

Hari OM

The schema of study devised at Chinmaya Mission is the subject of this post each week. To see all texts referred to, click the label below ("SuggtdReading")

TATTVABODHA is the next on the list. This is the technical primer, in which the basic tenets of Advaita are laid down, along with principles of science to support the thinking. It is here that we learn about the tanmatras, the very elements from which creation is derived. 

We learn also of the biology of who we are as physical beings and spiritual beings, assessing the koshas - the bodies that come together to form our physical presence. 

It is in this text, also, that we comprehend the senses and how they affect our inner body and how it all relates to the spiritual body, called the jiiva. How all the assessing itself is processed via the antaH karana, the mental structure consisting of four parts and how it is that we can actually have control of these things... if we choose to do so.