Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
Chit is the body of Iswaran. This Sambandham ( relationship) between Chit and
Eswaran is called Sareera-Sareeri Sambandham. The cosmos is the body of the Lord.
Ishwara is the head of the cosmos. whole Cosmos, the entire universe, is the body of
Brahman.
Brahman is like Man because Man was created in the Image of Brahman. In Man, Jiva
is in this body. Jiva is the Saririn while the body is the Sarira. Isa is the Lord. Jivas are
His servants. Iswaran (Isa, the Lord) is also called Sriman Narayanan (One who took
the form of Man). He alone rules all the worlds and universes. He is the cause and
creator of everything. Nothing can exist without Him. He is inside everything as
Antaryami and also outside everything for He bears everything. He is everywhere -
omnipresent.
While Brahman exists, Jiva and world subsist in Him. When creation occurs, the
universe the essence of which was always within Brahman evolves itself and issues out
of the Brahman with name and form, this is what is called creation. Brahman creates the
world just as a spider creates it's webs out of itself. In this sense, Jivas exists within the
Brahman dormant in the state of "sleep". Sao also insentient matter existed within
Brahman dormant. They are translated and comes into reality. Creation is a
spontaneous, joyous, creative activity (Leela) of Brahman arising out of love, which
gives the Jiva the purpose and fulfilment in life.
Brahman is compared to Pomegranate Fruit . Each seed is enclosed in red fleshy aril.
Its body is made of arils; so also the body of Brahman is made of individual souls.
What is aril to the fruit is the individual soul to Brahman. The fruit and Brahman are
Samasthi.
(aggregate of all arils [or souls]); the aril and the individual soul are vyasthi (single).
You can come across the same allegory in the Hebrew concept of relation between God
and creation.
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