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Chapter 13
In wakeful state, there is predominance of gross body and it is accompanied by subtle body, and causal body as well. In dream there is predominance of subtle body, which is accompanied by causal body. In sound sleep, there is predominance of causal body, and a person is neither, aware of the gross body, which is 'Annamayakosa' nor of subtle body which is 'Pranamayakoia', 'Manomayakoia' and 'Vijnanamayakola' viz., intellect merges in ignorance. Therefore, sound sleep is a state of causal body. In wakefulness and sleep, a man feels pleasure and pain, but in sound sleep, no pain is felt, there is only bliss. Therefore, the causal body is called 'Anandamayakosa' (sheath of bliss). The causal body is also called 'Idam', because it is known by the self.
All the three bodies, are called 'Sarira, because they decay every moment. (The root of Salim is 'Sr himasayam'.) As the cover (made of leather) of a sword, is called 'sheath', similarly, the three bodies of the embodied soul, in which it resides and which it assumes as its own, are denoted by a sheath. The body is called a field (Ksetra), because it is subject to constant decay (the root of Ksetra is Ksi, which means decay).
As seeds, sown in a field yield the corresponding crop in course of time, even so seeds of actions, which a man performs by having feelings of egoism and attachment, yield their fruit, at an appointed time and thus, one is born, a god, a bird, a beast or an insect, etc., according to his actions, and then dies. So it is called a 'Ksetra (field).
The body is different from the self, but a man identifies himself with it, and thus he gets entangled. He himself, being a portion of the Lord is sentient and great, but he considers himself great, by possessing wealth and property etc.
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