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       Internal war 

       Major difference between "Sanatana Dharma" or Vedic  tradition is that other spiritual traditions ask man to give up desires, because desires is the root cause of all pain and sufferings. A practical question is how to give up desires when even giving up desire itself a desire. It is impractical to live life without desires. Vedic tradition says there is no problem in desires but the root cause of pain and suffering is because we lose the awareness of our true "Self". (please do not skip reading  the previous page for details).

         There is always the factor of Ego in us that prevent us from being in the state of Awareness or true Self. This internal war between the Ego and the transcendence to our true self is the theme of Vedic-Puranas. The war between the Devas (Gods) and Asuras (demons) is our own  internal war. Every time when the Gods or Devas forget their won nature (True Self), they lose their power and are driven out of heaven by the Asuras (pain and suffering). They would finally seek refuge in intellect or pure Consciousness (Vishnu) and Awareness (shiva) (details in Puranas section).

Loss of Awareness of the Self leads to suffering

      Whatever actions we may be involved if we are not aware of our Self and do not take steps in progressing in our evolutionary journey, then in the form of pain and suffering we will be mercilessly be pushed forward. As we said  earlier like driving the car we can talk and listen to music but cannot afford to lose the awareness of driving and also keep track of the directions. If we do not keep of directions again it is a pain to get back to the right road.

     We started from Pancha Bhoota healing giving you this direction to evolve forward without undergoing pain and suffering in the life's journey. All the health approaches would seem to take care of the body, but in the deeper level, the five steps help you to strengthen your intellect and then be aware of your true self.

     The final stages in the journey is to completely purify the mind from the grips of the Ego thought "I". This is achieved by understanding the Upanishads which is simplified as Bhagavad Gita. Gita helps one to transcend the Ego and attain Self-realization.

     Sakthi Gita is the practical approach of living the essence of Bhagavad Gita and complete the Journey to the Source. This is the easiest way to get relief from pain and sufferings of life.

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     Evolution

      Whether we like it or not, we are all evolving. Evolving to what?. Evolving to our final form or destination. Our Journey To the Source, Consciousness.

     Human life is the story of the Journey to The Source, to know Consciousness. Spiritual seekers call it Enlightenment and seek it . Enlightenment is knowing one's True Self as pure Unconditioned Consciousness. A enquiry mind might ask, why to seek the Self or unconditioned Consciousness?. What is the purpose of such a seeking? Vedanta tells us that the very purpose of life on Earth is to know the Self, because that was the fundamental question that "caused" creation. There was a question that arose "Who Am I?". The "I" caused  the creation of conditioned consciousness and the Journey of search began to know "Who Am I?". The journey ends answering the question "Who Am I?".

Why the question?

       If sugar wants to know its sweetness, it has to take a form to experience it sweetness. Similarly Consciousness to know itself took form and this whole creation started.

     The answer to the question arrives not with a single step, it is a process and is an evolution. The stages take shape initially in the form of matter (minerals) and then to form plants which then evolve to animals and then to man and finally to Self realized individual and with that the answer is sought which culminates the journey.

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     Survival of Intellect

      Charles Darwin in the west , gave the concept of Survival of fittest, the driving force for evolution. That was a mile stone in the progress of Biology in modern science. Evolutionary theory made perfect sense when we see the biology of life. Life evolved from single cell organism to multi-cellular and finally man. The evolution was not a random process. The organism self designs through the inherent intellect because we have discussed that all knowledge comes from the field of awareness.  Intelligence  in the first organism that arose was expressed at higher dimensions as it evolved. It is an intelligent design but here we mean that there was not someone who was designing it external to the organism.

      No one externally designs, the organism has the power to design itself and evolve challenging the hostile conditions in the  environment. Vedanta says the micro-organism is also the manifestation of the Supreme Consciousness, the Brahman. Therefore the cell has all the source of intelligence inherent in it. With that intelligence it can evolve further. That inherent evolution is still continuing in human.

      Vedas tell that man has progressed through 84 million  species. This is what birth and re-birth means. A bacteria through numerous  rebirths and death has attained the state of man. The man is the last state to get free from this cycle of re-birth and death, because of his and her highly developed intellect.

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Panchikarana - Sri Adi Sankaracharya (Sankara)-Prakarana-s (pp 163-165).

Panchikarana' refers to the quintiplication process involved in the Advaitic concept of creation. It is a process by which the five
elementary constituents of the universe are said to be compounded with one another to form grosser entities that serve as units in the
composition of the physical universe. The process is also referred to as `grossification'.

Brahman is both the efficient cause and the material cause of the phenomenal world (nimitta karana and upadana karana). The simile used
(not a metaphor) is that of a spider, which weaves its web from the silk, produced from its own body.

Then due to the interaction of the supreme Self with Maya, and the dominant influence of `tamas', there arose `ether' or `space'. Out of `space', the `air' emanated. In due succession, out of the `air', `fire' emanated; and out of `fire', `water' emanated and out of `water', there arose
the `earth'.

Thus these five `tattva-s' (space, air, fire, water and earth) are the first `subtle' elements of creation
(Panchamahabhootani). They are called subtle elements because they exist before they manifest themselves through their association with
the grosser objects of the phenomenal world. Then the `panchikarana' process starts.

1. The `tamas' aspect of each of the five elements divides into two equal parts (parts A and B)

2. One half of each element remains intact. (A remains intact)

3. The other half of each gets divided into four equal parts. (B of each element gets divided into four equal parts).

4. Then, to the A part of each element one part of the B of each of the other four elements gets joined.

5. Then `panchikarana' is complete.

Let' designate space (subtle) = space (S) and space (gross) = space (G).

So, after `panchikarana',

space(G) = ½ space(S) + 1/8 air(S) + 1/8 fire(S) + 1/8 water (S) + 1/8 earth (S)

air(G) = ½ air(S) +1/8 space(S) + 1/8 fire(S) + 1/8 water(S) + 1/8 earth(S)

fire(G) = ½ fire(S) +1/8 space(S) + 1/8 air(S) + 1/8 water(S) + 1/8 earth(S)

water(G) = ½ water(S) +1/8 space(S) + 1/8 air (S) +1/8 fire(S) + 1/8 earth(S)

earth (G) = ½ earth(S) +1/8 space(S) + 1/8 air + 1/8 fire(S) + 1/8 water(S)

The five elements that are created as part of prakRiti - space, air, fire, water and earth - three states of matter - solids, liquids and gases and
energy and space. The subtler form of these are created. PrakRiti has three guNa-s or qualities - satva, rajas and tamas.

Satva is the source of knowledge. Satva guna-s of these five elements become the source of JNana-indriya-s or sense faculties. Together they form the source for subtle matter - mind and intellect.

The rajas which is the cause for activity - the rajas aspect of these five emements form the five karma indriaya-s - organs of action at subtler level.

Then comes the grossification of these. In the grossification -panchiikarana starts. Each of the five elements splits into half. Thus space is divided into two parts and similarly the rest of the five.

One half of each remins but other half splits further into four more parts.
The four (1/8th) part joins each of the other elemnts. Thus the space has
its half part plus 1/8th of air, 1/8th of fire, 1/8th of water and 1/8th of
earth - all together forming one complete whole again.

Thus in the pancheekarana each of the unit after the reassembly has half of its own plus
1/8th part of other four elements. These form the basis for the grossification of the universe. From these re-assemboled unit - the
fourteen worlds, plus the gross bodies of all living organims - including gods, humans and animals and plants are made.

This in essense is the panchiikaraNa process.

It is a theory of explaining how subtle all pervading aatma becomes a grossifed forms of many.

Source:

http://www.advaitin.net/Discussion%20Topics/Panchikarana%20and%20Varttika.pdf

http://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/1054540-want-a-detailed-note-on-panchikarana/

http://www.manblunder.com/2011/05/vedanta-panchikarana.html

Tattvabodha thus establishes the identity between microcosm and macrocosm. The individual gross body is called piṇḍāṇḍa (microcosm) and sum total of all piṇḍāṇḍa-s is brahmāṇḍa (macrocosm). The individual soul is nothing but a part of the Brahman and realising this truth is known as Self realisation. Due to the veiling effects of māyā, Ātman continues to forget its true nature.