The self has an unlimited capacity to sense, being sat-cit-ananda. These sensations are limited or defined by the body being inhabited. For example, the human body senses light energies across a spectrum that we interpret as red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. Above violet in energy, is ultraviolet, which is not detected by the human eye. Similarly, energies below this light spectrum include infra-red, which again is not visually sensed. Yet we know that these energies are there, because higher authorities have informed us. Thus, the body zeroes in on certain energies, and responds only to those which have been selected by the in-born hardware, the human eye, nerves, and processor called the brain.
We hear sound from roughly 50 cycles per second up to roughly 20, 000. In many cases, the capacity to hear higher-pitch tones diminishes as we age. Yet, if we put a hearing aid into the ear, the extra gain in amplitude enables us to again hear those frequencies. The point being, the
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The spiritual or eternal self is not the sensations which the soul experiences within and from the body. “yantra rudrani mayaya”. What we directly experience is not actually the external hard physical material world, but a REPRESENTATION built by the mind, within the networks of the body’s brain, nervous and glandular systems, life air, etc., but primarily the brain, of the occupied body, exactly like a person experiencing the holo-deck from Star Trek fame. Subject, also, to defects.
“.. the soul … sits as if on a machine built of material energy.” Lord Sri Krsna, Bhagavad Gita As It Is, by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Thakura.
We are, indeed, ghosts within the machine. But as aspirants for spiritual emancipation, we are actively working to fix that.
When we meditate, if we are inclined to remember, we may wish to occasionally remember that we are the ability to sense, not exactly the sensations themselves, which are but the mere elements of the repre
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