Nature for experience or liberation
Prakashakriyasthithi sheelam Bhootendriyatmakam Bhogapavargartham Drishyam
Nature manifests itself in three ways - a brilliant and tranquil vibration which takes the form of purity and intelligence called Satwa, a forceful and dynamic movement called Rajas or action and an inert state of stillness called Tamas or inertia.
What are the constitutes of nature that have these three qualities in various permutations and combinations? First there are the five elements of earth, water, fire, aire and space. Then there are the sense organs of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing and five sense organs of action - hands, legs, speech, excretory and reproductive organs. The first five organs of perception help in receiving information and the next five organs of action express outwardly into the world. This is the way nature is organised. There is also the mind which has four faculties called the Manas - feeling, Buddhi - intellect, Chitta - memory and Ahamkara or the sense of 'I' and 'Mine.
All these put together are outside of the self and they help in cognition of names, forms and sounds, during the conscious state of waking and sub-conscious state of dreaming.
All this perception and understanding serves two purposes. The first is to experience and derive pleasure out of it and the second is to contemplate inward and get liberated from the limiting objects of perception in nature. - Swahilya Shambhavi (Picture: Icy mountains near the lake Manasarovar in Tibet). (Swahilya Shambhavi).
