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Up to now, in the previous discourses we find what Parasara has given a lucid description
of the ancient Indian cosmo-genesis up to the birth of consciousness (objectivity) from the
Supreme consciousness or the Oneness (subjectivity). The latter is but night-like to the
one who has no yogic vision. This highest branch of wisdom is supra-mental to the seer
and supra-cosmic to the seen. It is the one message of India to the rest of the world from
times immemorial. Books can be written about it but it cannot be conveyed through books.
It is the "Me" in one and all and everyone has only "one copy" of it in existence for himself.
It is the oldest manuscript ("Script of man") of the three chapters (physical, mental and
spiritual). Each chapter has seven headings (called Vyahruthis or the utterances of the
Inner word, I AM, in a sevenfold meter of sound, colour, breath, humour, touch, smell and
taste). This gives the right clue to the seven-threaded net-work of the plan (Saptatantu)
conducted by the same inner deity I AM in his capacity of the number-god who has seven
times seven as his main key (Saptasapti). By a very careful study of the Purana we get the
thorough comprehension of the so-called impenetrable labyrinths of the jungles of Vedic
wisdom.
We have seen how Parasara describes the birth of the egg or the universal consciousness
which is threefold. This I-consciousness is about to create the primary manifestations.
They are the five states of matter and forth put together. They are called the five Buthas
with their accompaniments. First the Lord of the egg created the concepts of the qualities
of the Buthas. Now we will follow the order of their creation which is but a manifestation.
He created the sound concept first (the sound concept is different from the sound we utter
which is but a set of vibrations produced by the disturbance of the sound concept by a
touch of dynamism. The sound concept is like the sound which we want to utter, before it
is uttered out. The cosmic mind had the urge to utter forth but it has not yet uttered. This
sound concept is called Sabda-Tanmatra). From this came out the objectivity of
consciousness into the next layer. That is what is we call the properties as seed-principles
concealed in it. Hence the quality of space is but the vibration of sound wave. This space
which is of sound nature occupied as awakened layer and served as the agent of creative
activity. As this space is being created by sound there is the mutual inter-action of the
vibrations as collision. This step has created the concept of touch. This is to the ego of
space what the imagined sense of touch is to a man. This is like the recollection of a
touch. By this there is the manifestation of pulsation (this is the origin of the breath of
space which is the cause of air). This pulsating activity is called Vayu. Thus it has the
quality of touch. Space is only vibrating (sound waves) but Vayu is both vibrating and
pulsating (sound and touch). Then the Vayu began to create. He created the concept of
shape (this will be like the recollection of the shape of a thing which is not present before
the eyes). Then light came out of Vayu and hence the quality of light is shape (to the eye,
to the living beings). Then again light began to create. It created the concept of taste (it is
like the memory of taste of an imagined thing); From this concept water (liquid state) is
created and hence liquids are possessed by the quality of taste. Then the liquid wanted to
create. It created the concept of smell (more correctly, the quality of permeation). Through
this, the quality of the grouping of various minute parts into various solid entities which we
call crystals, had its manifestation. This is called Pridhvi. Hence the quality of smell or
permeation possessed the physical state of matter (solid, liquid and gas come under the
Text of discourses by Dr. E. Krishnamachaya, originally published in MY LIGHT, the magazine of
the World Teacher Trust, India

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fifth state and the remaining states are pre-atomic). Hence Vayu and the water mentioned
here are not the gaseous and liquid states of our physical world but they are the properties
of the pre-atomic state that are described in the books of the ancient wisdom. The
concepts but not the objects exist in these states and hence they are called Tanmatras or
the particular measures. These are also called Aviseshas which means that they are
unchangeable and undifferenciable. They are neither peaceful nor terrible in their reactions
and they cannot be altered by the subsequently created entities. This creation of the five
states and their concepts is from the consciousness which is governed by the quality of
inertia (Tamas).
The five sense-organs and the five operative organs are created by consciousness that is
dynamic (Rajas). They are called Vaikarikas or the secondary and tertiary states of the
Rajasic consciousness. They are called the Devas of the microcosmic application and they
are ten in number. The five sense-organs are: 1. The skin for touch, 2. The eye for sight, 3.
The nose for smell, 4. The tongue for taste and 5. The ear for hearing. The five operative
organs are: 1. The hands, 2. The legs, 3. The speech, 4. The rectum and 5. The urinary
tract. The first set of five co-operate with the will in the enlightened person and react with
the mind in the ignorant to the external stimuli. The 11 th is the mind which flows through
the other ten (these eleven put together are described as the manifestations of Rudras).

Text of discourses by Dr. E. Krishnamachaya, originally published in MY LIGHT, the magazine of

the World Teacher Trust, India