As we can’t independently control matter, how do our senses function in the world?
So, the question is, how do our senses work? If I touch something and say, feel it cold, we know that the soul can’t interact with matter directly. It’s your super-soul. Do all these sensations happen in the super-soul? Yes.
Krishna described in the Bhagavad Gita that, इश्वर सर्भूताना देशर इश्वर धावन सर्भूताना त्रावधाना देशर This yantra, Vedic 161, he says that, this is a jyota made of mud. And these jyotas will perform whose guiding, granting the qualities. So, for example, when I want to speak right now, speech is a technological miracle.
There are many, in computers, there are speech-synthesizing softwares. Sometimes the computer can read out a book. You put text in it, text-to-speech converter is there.
But then, it cannot come anywhere near the level of modulation, emotional ethicis, pauses, and accentuation that is there in human speech. So now, when I want to speak, all that I do is I desire to speak. But after that, how exactly my desire to speak gets translated into speech? I don’t know that.
If I go to some post-specialist, and then I ask him, it’s a whole complex mechanism. So who is running that mechanism? That is actually supposed to be. So in our body, there are voluntary and involuntary functions.
And a lot of functions are voluntary. They require control and coordination, but we don’t want to coordinate them. Who does it? Who is in control of that? So in our functioning with our senses, we depend on those functions.
So even for our sense gratification, we need it. It is not that we need it just now for our spiritual advancement. We need to move to sense gratification.
Without it, we will not be able to perceive attractive objects. Without it, we will not be able to activate our senses. And without it, there will be no pleasure.
So therefore, for everything, we depend on it. And Krishna, when he sees the desire, how it works is, the soul desires, the super-soul sanctions, and the matrimonial chain executes. So we, our desire is sensed by the super-soul, and after that, the matrimonial chain executes.
And that’s not everything that happens. The super-soul is the medium through which it acts. One last question.