Body holds the soul and protects it. This body is called as thoola sareeram (material body). The inner body, which is within the material body is called as sookkuma sareeram (subtle body).
Thoola sareeram..
The use of the Human body is to create intelligence. This human body enjoys various sensations.The duty of the intellectual is to identify the permanent feelings by analysing the permanent and temporary feelings of human sensations.
Siththars categorize the Humans into three types.
Sagalar: Those who gained knowledge of body.
Piralayaagalar: Those who have thought about celestials when they were alive and had become celestial thyselves after their death.
Vingnaanakalar: Those who gained the knowledge of body and capable of attaining subtle body. They could be alive even after leaving their body. Those who attains this ability are called as vingnaanakalar by Siththars.
This material body grows by the consumption of food. This body doesn’t have any permanent characteristic or knowledge. Because of ignorance, many of us consider this impermanence of the body as “myself”.
But in reality, subtle body is the immortal one.
In the next post we will see about the subtle body.
Original - www.siththarkal.com
Translated by - தமிழ் தமிழானவள்.
