AhamkaaraVivekachuuDaamaNi-verse
No.106---ahamkaaraH sa vijneyaH—In
his commentary on this verse, H.H. Svaami Chandrasekhara Bhaarati says-ahamkaara,
the ego-sense, is the antaHkaraNam
(the internal organ or mind) with the reflection of the consciousness of
the Self in it. It then identifies itself with the body and senses. This
antaHkaraNam considers itself as doer and enjoyer. It acquires the
states of waking, dream and deep sleep by conjunction with rajoguNa, sattvaguNa and tamoguNa
respectively.
Sri
sures’vara points out in his Naishkarmyasiddhi ,Ch.2, verses 46 to 51
that (1)the internal organ is
the connecting link between the Self and the non-Self (verse 46), (2) it
makes the Self which is one appear as many (v.47), (3) it is because of
it that the Self, though free from action and attributes, appears to
have all of them (v.49), and (4) it makes the non-relational Self
relational, as it were (v.51). The internal organ assumes the form of
the external object which is presented to it and when this modification
of the internal organ (antaHkaraNa-vr.tti)
is illumined by the Self which is reflected therein, the internal organ
assumes the role of the knower or the seer, though by itself it cannot
be the knower since it is insentient. In the absence of the internal
organ, as in sushupti, the
Self has no relation with anything and does not experience anything,
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