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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

An audiologist
by profession
I work with persons
experiencing communications
disorders
due to sensory deficits
specifically; hearing.

I met
this man
who
had been blind
for many years
He told me
he navigates
in part
sometimes
by making a clicking sound
with his tongue
the echoes bouncing
off
structures around
tell him
where he is where they are !

This is not a normal way of navigating for humans !

He has reorganized
use of
his basic capacities
reinterpreted his senses.
as if an orchestrator
or
One who serves the Great Orchestrator!
In all ways at all times.

Means
that the self
within
organizing
utilizing
fully
entering into
the body inhabited
has capacities
unlimited
that the temporary
limited
sensory structures
like the eyes
deliver info
but we are not
those structures
we are
jivas
we use
the senses
they serve us
we are higher order
of Being
of servant
of Krsna.

senses (2)

The Brain as Holodeck

encounter with a blind man (c)

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