Bhagavatam-daily 209 – 11.11.14 – Our mentality determines whether we are in the body or are beyond it

Thank you sankalpaha sankalpa can use the positive sense for resolution or determination it is also used in another sense to refer to the intention for pursuing worldly enjoyment sankalpaha means one was given up the intention for enjoying this world pranendriyamanodhiyam vrittayah sa vinirmukto so vritti is inclination vinirmukto one who has given up the inclination for enjoyment sa vinirmukto that person who has given it up so now what is being talked about here is that such a person who has given up the inclination for enjoying this world and the usual tools in the body mind mechanism that are used for enjoyment are pranendriyamanodhiyam pranendriya the life air, the senses the mind and the intelligence these are what are used when the soul interacts with the world and these get permeated with the enjoying mentality in the bhagavad gita 3.36-43 krishna talks about lust and how it impels us to wrong activities and therein he states that the sitting places of lust are in 3.40 he states that indriyanimano buddhir asyadishthanam uchyate etair vimohayate gyanamavritya dehinam so the sitting places of lust are the senses, the mind and the intelligence and sometimes the prana is also included in the list of the elements that need to be controlled in the 18th chapter when krishna talks about how there is determination in the mode of goodness so it is said dhrityaya yadharayate manah pranendriya kriya yogena vyabhicharinya dhriteesa partha satvike so therein he states that that determination is in goodness in the mode of goodness which is what manah pranendriya kriya so the movements of the mind, the senses and the life air yogena vyabhicharinya dhriteesa partha satvike which controls the movements of these yogena vyabhicharinya in the practice of yoga we study that is determination in the mode of goodness so essentially the point is these 3 need to be controlled but controlling is the first stage over a period of time one rises from control to purification so when just like if a horse is tamed then there is not such a battle to control the horse because the horse is already controlled, conquered already won over so like that here it is said that the vritti for enjoyment when it is eliminated from these people then what happens dehasthopi tadgunai dehasthopi although situated in the body actually one is not affected by the qualities of that bodily attachment one stays free one stays just entangled from the body so now previously examples were given of how the soul despite being in the body doesn’t get entangled with the body now here going ahead from those examples the underlying principle the concept is being stated here that what causes the soul entanglement is the mentality to enjoy just like say when an object gets stuck to another object if you want to stick a tag or stick some something we want to remember so we tag it on to a wall so then we need some glue tag or something like glue tag something like that which will stick it so the adhesive which makes the soul and the body stick together is the soul’s desire to enjoy the body and that desire to enjoy is present in the interface large and subtle body and then the gross body to some extent so it is present here it is mentioned pranendriya manodhya so the life air the mind the intelligence senses so when these are free from the enjoying mentality then the soul is as good as freed soul is no longer bound in metal existence because there is nothing to bind the soul just like sometimes after some usage the glue becomes dried and if the glue has become dried the glue has become non-sticky so the glue has become non-sticky for some reason because of because of being spoiled or whatever then at that time nothing even if you press something against the wall with the glue in between it will not stick so like that the soul who is freed from the enjoying mentality will not stick to the body there will be nothing that will cause the soul to stick to the body and for such people with sankalpa those who are given up the intention to enjoy the world then there is nothing that can keep them bound to this world so earlier there was a poetic verse which talked about that although the soul is situated in the body that soul is not situated in the body so a similar theme is talked over here just like a person may be as we have the example earlier a person may be in a movie theatre when everybody is caught in watching the movie but that person doesn’t focus the eyes on the movie theatre doesn’t get caught in the sound and light that is being played on the screen and although that person is in the movie theatre that person is not in the movie theatre in the sense that at least not in the way everyone else is everyone else is in the movie theatre and is caught in the movie but this person is in the movie theatre but is not caught in the movie because the consciousness is not caught over there the consciousness is still transcendental because the person has transcendental intention or the person does not have the intention that is there among everybody else in that movie theatre and that intention which is present in everybody else in the movie theatre is the intention to enjoy the movie so double time it is stressed but actually that person has no desire to enjoy the body now become free from that desire and that’s why even while being in the body one can stay detached from the body one can stay independent and one can stay disentangled from the body that is the speciality of the liberated soul