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Chapter 15
Link:- The Lord, in this chapter from the first verse to the fifteenth verse (in three sub-topics), has described the tree of creation i.e., the world, the embodied soul and God in detail. While concluding the topic, He in the next two verses, describes them respectively in explicit words as Ksara, Aksara and Purusottama.
dvavimau purusau loke ksarasceksara eva ca
ksarah sarvan bhutani kutastho'ksara ucyate
There are two kinds of Purusas in the world, the perishable (Ksara) and the imperishable (Aksara). All bodies of beings are said to be perishable and the unchanging .livatma is called imperishable. 16
Comment:-
Dvavimau purusau loke ksarascaksara eva ca:- Here, the term 'Lake', stands for the entire world. In the seventh verse of this chapter the term 'Jivaloke', also stands for the world.
The world is divided into two aspects (categories), the perishable objects, such as the body etc., (the insentient), and the imperishable soul (the sentient), which resides in the body. It is because of the soul, that the life-breath and the body function. As soon as, life-breath within the soul, leaves the body, it stops functioning, and it starts to rot. People bum a dead body, because it is useful, only so long as, the soul resides in it. It means that it is the soul, rather than the body, which is significant.
All the objects, such as the body etc., made of the five gross elements--earth, water, fire, air and ether, are insentierh and perishable. The physical body, has its identity with physical world; the subtle body consisting of the ten senses, five vital airs, the mind and the intellect (these seventeen), has its identity with the subtle world, while the causal body (nature, impressions of the actions, ignorance), has its identity with causal world (nature).They are called 'Ksara, because they are perishable.
In fact, there is nothing as individual; but when a person regards a little portion of the world, as his own, he says that it is individual. The body and other objects, seem different from the world, because of a man's attachment, a sense of mineness to them, otherwise they are one, and the same.
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