JADABHARATOPAKHYANA XII

Jadabharata was so prolific and knowledgeable that his logical establishment of truth about certain intricate aspects of life took Rahugana by surprise. As Jadabharata went on speaking, Rahuhana had nothing else to do but hear, understand and assimilate. In fact the situation was such that Rahugana forgot that he was on the way to meeting Kapila Maharshi and that he was a king. On the contrary, Jadabharata remembered that he was the king and Rahugana, by a matter of sheer chance and his Karmic exaltation, had ascended the same throne on which Jadabharata was seated in his past life. Jadabharata says now:

Sa VAsanAtmA viShayOparaktO guNapravAhO vikrutaha ShODashAtgmA|

Chitram PrThangnAmaBhee rUpaBhedamantarbahiShThaha swapuraistanOti||

DuhKham SuKham vyatimishram cha teevram kAlOpapannam PhalamAvyanakti|

Aalingya mAyArachitAntarAtmA swadEhinam samskritichakrakUTam||Sri Madhwacharya’s Bhagavata Tatparya Nirnaya Panchama Skandha||

(There is no word in English for Manas apart from Mind and hence please treat mind in this particular context as Manas.)

Mind is comprising of the Trigunas namely Satwika, Rajasa and Tamasa. Therefore, the mind is home for the qualities, traits or characters emanating from these Trigunas and their innumerable combinations. In the Lingashareera or the human body that possesses Shodashakalas or

sixteen skills, the most important aspect or part is this very mind. Call it the culprit or the beacon of knowledge. Driven by the Samskara or the merits and demerits of previous lives, the mind assigns to the human being various names, shapes like the form of a human, Deva, Asura etc., in accordance with the Papakarmas, the positive or negative energies emanating from human action, thought and deeds. These things may happen in dreams or when the human being is awake. When the being is awake, the mind directs the actions and reactions through the sensory organs and such actions and reactions may be sinful, virtuous, meritorious, pious so on and so forth. By doing so, the mind creates the prospective forms such as Deva, Asura and Manushya to the human being. 

This mind, which is made up of the will of the Lord and the Nature (five elements), stays and embraces the human body in which it stays. Under the influence of the uncontrollable Time that invariably brings with it the feelings or senses of mirth, wrath, distress, saddity or variations and combinations of these senses. This further creates heaps and heaps of bliss, ecstasy, sin, displeasure, dejection, depression, unhappiness and discomfiture that keep repeating in human life and that is what is the cycles of Karma, the cycles of birth and death from which there is no escape at all. (To be continued. If you like it, kindly share it)