Garbha Upanishad (1)
This Upnishad Explains in detail about the conception and growth of a child in the mother’s womb, while it still resides in the womb, in the form of a fetus. At each stage of development in the womb, the physical condition of the child’s body and the mental state and the condition of the jeevan (the soul) within is also explained in detail in this scripture, The soul trapped within the maternal womb, goes through a state of emotional turmoil, remembering past births and deaths.. It is great wonder that our ancient Rishis (the seers of truth) were able to grasp and visualize such intense secrets about the body and soul in those ancient days when there were no traces of today’s modern science and research. To go a step ahead, we can even say that parts of this Upanishad are yet to be physically researched and understood by the modern scientists and will remain unknown to the Science world till such time. This Upanishad is part of the Krishna Yajur Veda.
Garbha Upanishad states that the fetus before birth promises God not to repeat evil deeds but during the process of birth, a force called the ‘Vaishnava Prana touches him, and he forgets his thoughts and prayers. This entails repeating the process of learning and seeking the ultimate truth once again in the life granted.
The body is Fivefold in nature (the five elements), existing in the five, depending on the six support (Tastes of food), connected with the six qualities, (kama etc.) seven Dhatus (tissues), three impurities, having two yonis (of excretion), and (nourished by) four kind of food.
Why is the body called as “Panchaatmakam?” (Pancha -Five)
Because it is constituted out of the five forces of nature, the five elements – viz., Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Ether. In this body, whatever is hard is of Earth, liquid is water, warm is fire, whatever moves about is air and space-enclosed is ether. The function of the Earth is to support; water is to consolidate (digestion etc.). Fire is to see, wind is for moving, and Ether is to give space (for vital functions).
There the earth is to support, water is to consolidate, fire is for light, Air is for movement (sound), and ether is to provide space. Separately, ear are receive words, the skin for touch, eyes are used in seeing form, tongue for taste, nose for smell, and genitalia are for pleasure and apana evacuation. One cognizes with the intellect buddhi, evacuations with the mind manas, and speak with words vak.
How is the six-fold support? It is said to be the six tastes (of food) sweet, acid, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent. And sadja, rsabha, gandhara, panchama, madhyama, dhaivata, nishada, together with agreeable and disagreeable sounds and prayer, make ten categories.
It has White, Red, and Black smokey gray, Yellow, Tawny and Pale-White – these are the colours of the seven Dhatus (tissues). Why? For Devadatta (any person) there springs up in his mind desire for enjoyment of objects. From the proper combination of qualities, six types of taste (rasa) emerge. From relish of food blood is born, from it is flesh, thence fat, bones, marrow, semen; by the combination of semen and blood the embryo/foetus (garbha) is born. And its growth is regulated by the heart (mother’s heartbeat as well as the embryo’s).
The seven dhatua are in the heart where there’s inner fire; at the place of the fire I pitta (bile); at the pitta-organs is movement (vayu); and at the vayu -place is the heart, all groiwing in order according to the law (Prajapati)
THE METHOD TO LIBERATE ONESELF FROM LIFE AND DEATH
Due to the actions performed, the body has to undergo transmigration and as a result a wale of sufferings. Humans can liberate themselves only when they realize the eternal truth and the supreme God in their heart. That supreme God is formless but can be attained by devotion, faith and pure love. A person who realizes him becomes immortal and is freed from the vicious cycle of life and death.
At the time of death the soul leaves the physical body but takes the wiliness body and Conscious body along with it. The body is a carrier of soul
All the egg cells in the ovary of the female are formed before birth, and none can be formed later. The male is different; Spermatozoa are continuously being formed in his testicles from puberty onwards, and into old age. The father determines the sex of the child.
According to Hindu Texts when one dies, his soul or life energy or soul which is enveloped in the Linga Sarira or a subtle sheath and invested with the sum total of good and bad Karma passes after sometime into another plane shaping of the gross body as a man castes of his own - out clothes and put on new one.
His re- birth then take place in a physical body corresponding with the deeds done by him in his previous life. The process of death and birth go on until Moksha or final liberation. The Karma is the result of our actions and our actions are due to our thoughts and hence it is man who creates his karma for it is the product of his thought.
The formation of the embryo and its stages of development
On a perfect day and on the uniting of the male and female reproductive fluids, after the lapse of one night, the embryo is in a mixed (semi-fluid) state. After seven nights from thereon, it takes the shape of a bubble formed out of water. At the end of a fortnight, it takes the shape of a solid lump. It gets solidified and hardened at the end of one month.
In two months, the head takes form. At the end of three months, the legs and foot are formed.
And by the fourth month, the wrist, stomach and the hip, waist etc are formed. During the fifth month, the spine and the adjoining bones get shaped. The Mouth, Nose, Eyes and the Ears are all formed during the sixth month.
In the seventh month, life or the jivan (Soul) enters the body shaped so far. By the eighth month, it attains full shape and gets fulfilled with all other remaining parts.
This Upnishad Explains in detail about the conception and growth of a child in the mother’s womb, while it still resides in the womb, in the form of a fetus. At each stage of development in the womb, the physical condition of the child’s body and the mental state and the condition of the jeevan (the soul) within is also explained in detail in this scripture, The soul trapped within the maternal womb, goes through a state of emotional turmoil, remembering past births and deaths.. It is great wonder that our ancient Rishis (the seers of truth) were able to grasp and visualize such intense secrets about the body and soul in those ancient days when there were no traces of today’s modern science and research. To go a step ahead, we can even say that parts of this Upanishad are yet to be physically researched and understood by the modern scientists and will remain unknown to the Science world till such time. This Upanishad is part of the Krishna Yajur Veda.
Garbha Upanishad states that the fetus before birth promises God not to repeat evil deeds but during the process of birth, a force called the ‘Vaishnava Prana touches him, and he forgets his thoughts and prayers. This entails repeating the process of learning and seeking the ultimate truth once again in the life granted.
The body is Fivefold in nature (the five elements), existing in the five, depending on the six support (Tastes of food), connected with the six qualities, (kama etc.) seven Dhatus (tissues), three impurities, having two yonis (of excretion), and (nourished by) four kind of food.
Why is the body called as “Panchaatmakam?” (Pancha -Five)
Because it is constituted out of the five forces of nature, the five elements – viz., Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Ether. In this body, whatever is hard is of Earth, liquid is water, warm is fire, whatever moves about is air and space-enclosed is ether. The function of the Earth is to support; water is to consolidate (digestion etc.). Fire is to see, wind is for moving, and Ether is to give space (for vital functions).
There the earth is to support, water is to consolidate, fire is for light, Air is for movement (sound), and ether is to provide space. Separately, ear are receive words, the skin for touch, eyes are used in seeing form, tongue for taste, nose for smell, and genitalia are for pleasure and apana evacuation. One cognizes with the intellect buddhi, evacuations with the mind manas, and speak with words vak.
How is the six-fold support? It is said to be the six tastes (of food) sweet, acid, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent. And sadja, rsabha, gandhara, panchama, madhyama, dhaivata, nishada, together with agreeable and disagreeable sounds and prayer, make ten categories.
It has White, Red, and Black smokey gray, Yellow, Tawny and Pale-White – these are the colours of the seven Dhatus (tissues). Why? For Devadatta (any person) there springs up in his mind desire for enjoyment of objects. From the proper combination of qualities, six types of taste (rasa) emerge. From relish of food blood is born, from it is flesh, thence fat, bones, marrow, semen; by the combination of semen and blood the embryo/foetus (garbha) is born. And its growth is regulated by the heart (mother’s heartbeat as well as the embryo’s).
The seven dhatua are in the heart where there’s inner fire; at the place of the fire I pitta (bile); at the pitta-organs is movement (vayu); and at the vayu -place is the heart, all groiwing in order according to the law (Prajapati)
THE METHOD TO LIBERATE ONESELF FROM LIFE AND DEATH
Due to the actions performed, the body has to undergo transmigration and as a result a wale of sufferings. Humans can liberate themselves only when they realize the eternal truth and the supreme God in their heart. That supreme God is formless but can be attained by devotion, faith and pure love. A person who realizes him becomes immortal and is freed from the vicious cycle of life and death.
At the time of death the soul leaves the physical body but takes the wiliness body and Conscious body along with it. The body is a carrier of soul
All the egg cells in the ovary of the female are formed before birth, and none can be formed later. The male is different; Spermatozoa are continuously being formed in his testicles from puberty onwards, and into old age. The father determines the sex of the child.
According to Hindu Texts when one dies, his soul or life energy or soul which is enveloped in the Linga Sarira or a subtle sheath and invested with the sum total of good and bad Karma passes after sometime into another plane shaping of the gross body as a man castes of his own - out clothes and put on new one.
His re- birth then take place in a physical body corresponding with the deeds done by him in his previous life. The process of death and birth go on until Moksha or final liberation. The Karma is the result of our actions and our actions are due to our thoughts and hence it is man who creates his karma for it is the product of his thought.
The formation of the embryo and its stages of development
On a perfect day and on the uniting of the male and female reproductive fluids, after the lapse of one night, the embryo is in a mixed (semi-fluid) state. After seven nights from thereon, it takes the shape of a bubble formed out of water. At the end of a fortnight, it takes the shape of a solid lump. It gets solidified and hardened at the end of one month.
In two months, the head takes form. At the end of three months, the legs and foot are formed.
And by the fourth month, the wrist, stomach and the hip, waist etc are formed. During the fifth month, the spine and the adjoining bones get shaped. The Mouth, Nose, Eyes and the Ears are all formed during the sixth month.
In the seventh month, life or the jivan (Soul) enters the body shaped so far. By the eighth month, it attains full shape and gets fulfilled with all other remaining parts.
No comments:
Post a Comment