BHRUGUVALLI FOURTH ANUVAKA

                                          

                                                         

                                                                                                

                                                          BrahmavignaneThrutiyaparyaya.

                                          (Third Attempt at Brahmavignana)

Mantra:  mano brahmeti vyajanath manasohyeva khalvimani bhutani jayanthe……………….

Meaning:   After performing tapas, sage Bhrugu felt that Manas is the very Brahman as the acts of creation, protection, and  destruction are carried out by Manas through it’s ‘sankalpa’. Once again  the doubt cropped in him that manas cannot be equated with the Brahman. He came back to his father and prayed for a

fresh instruction on the Brahman. His father instructed him to know the Brahman through tapas as it is the Brahman in itself. Accordingly sage Bhrugu performed tapas once again.

Manas cannot be considered as the Brahman because, like the eyes and the other organs, it depends on the  indriyas  or ‘karanas’ The karanas  depend upon the doer-(one who acts) Therefore it is dependent on the doer and not independent. But the Brahman is independent. Hence Manas  cannot be called the Brahman.

Sruthi pramana for establishing manas as responsible for creation, protection, and destruction:

Aswalayana asks how prana enters the body;                                                    

“manokruthe nayathyasmin chareere”prana enters the body by its  sankalpa  that it would enter such and such a body” is the answer from Pipalada.

As the activities of life like work and trade and commerce are controlled by manas, it is the cause of life.

At the terminal stage of life, the activities of all organs like speech enter manas thus making it the instrument of destruction.

OM   THATH   SATH.         .