Mandukya_Upanishad

physical world, it is aware of the physical world, and itknows nothing other than the physical world.We cannot know what is inside us, and we cannot alsoknow what is inside the world. Now, to see what is insidethe world is not to break the earth into pieces, just as, to seewhat is inside us, it would not be enough if we simplypierce the heart or break the body. The ‘inside’ is not to betaken in this sense. It is not the inside of a room, a hall or ahouse. This is a peculiar kind of ‘inside’ which we cannoteasily understand, unless we think over it deeply. Even if webreak through the body or split an object, we cannot see the‘inside’ of the body or the object because the physicalinternality of the object is not the real ‘inside’ of it. Eventhat would be merely the physical part of the object, alone.What is the ‘inside’ of the object? The ‘inside’ is that whichis internal to the physical aspect of the object, because evenif the physical object is broken to pieces, we see only thephysical parts of it. If we cut to pieces a human body, whatdo we see? We see the parts of the same body. We have seenthe same physical stuff; we have not seen anything internalto the physical aspect of the body. The internal is not thespatial internality of any physical entity, but that power orforce of which the physical body or the physical object is aconcretisation or manifestation. The subtle body of ours,the astral body, is called, in Sanskrit, liṇga-śarīra or liṇgadeha.Liṇga is a mark, an indication or a symptom. Thesubtle body is called a symptom, an indication or a mark,because it determines the character of the physical bodywhich is its manifestation. The physical body is nothing butthe form that is cast in the mould of the subtle body. The60