EHV Session 2

8/12/2019 EHV Session 2

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EssentiHuman Instructor: Dr. Akh

Email: aknayak


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Session 2

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The science of self

Who are you?

Are you your hands?

Are you your legs?

Are you your head?

Are your body all the parts taken to

Are you your name?

Are you a daughter/son/brother/siste


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Dr. Harry Mon

Professor of aat Illinois Coll

Medicine say

.In a 60 pound person, there are about..

5 pounds of Calcium,1 pounds of Phosphate,about 9 ounces of Potassium,

6 ounces each of sulfur and sodium,1 ounce of magnesium, and

less than an ounce each of iron, copper an


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Total worth of a human body R

says Dr.Monsen

CALCIUM

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%AT&R C!T&!T

T#&R $U'$TA!C&$

Now does that sound like you ? Please ask Is this the essential stuff of your identity ?


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Arjuns Questions

Arjuna said: !iller of enemies, !iller of MaI counterattac! #it" arro#s in $attle men li!e Dro(a, #"o are #ort"y of my #ors"i)* %+ 2.

It #ould $e $etter to li-e in t"is #orld $y $eggli-e at t"e cost of t"e li-es of great souls #"o a

. ,su)eriors. If t"ey are !illed, e-eryt"ing #e enjtainted #it" $lood. %+ 2./

0o# I am confused a$out my duty and "a-e locom)osure $ecause of miserly #ea!ness. In t"am as!ing 1ou to tell me for certain #"at is $e

0o# I am 1our disci)le, and a soul surrenderedPlease instruct me. %+ 2.


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rishnas !esponse

3"e Su)reme Personality of +od"ea4"ile s)ea!ing learned #ords, you a

mourning for #"at is not #ort"y of g

li-ing nor for t"e dead. %+ 2.55

0e-er #as t"ere a time #"en I did nnor you, nor all t"ese !ings7 nor in t"

s"all any of us cease to $e. %+ 2.52


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Who are "e?dehino 'smin yath dehe kaumra yauv

tath dehntara-prptir dhras tatra na

As the embodied soul continuously passes, infrom boyhood to youth to old age, the soul siinto another body at death. A sober person isbeildered by such a change. !" #.$%


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The soul is covered bygross and subtle covering

Gross body :Gross body :Earth,Earth,Water,Water,Fire,Fire,

irir

EtherEther


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Why should "e care to kno" o

$%uanimitymtr-spar&s tu kaunteya &to(a-sukha-d

gampyino 'nitys ts titikasva b!" #.$*

+ son of unt, the nonpermanent appear

,due course, are like the appearance anddisappearance of inter and summer seasarise from sense perception, + scion of !hone must learn to tolerate them ithout bdisturbed. !" #.$*

+ best among men Arjuna/, the person disturbed by happiness and distress and isboth is certainly eligible for liberation. #.$


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&ature of self

3"ose #"o are seers of t"e trut" "a-e concluded t"anone6istent 8t"e material $ody9 t"ere is no enduranceternal 8t"e soul9 t"ere is no c"ange. 3"is t"ey "a-e studying t"e nature of $ot". %+ 2.5

3"at #"ic" )er-ades t"e entire $ody you s"ould !noindestructi$le. 0o one is a$le to destroy t"at im)eris

. 3"e material $ody of t"e indestructi$le, immeasura$

li-ing entity is sure to come to an end7 t"erefore, fig"descendant of %"arata.

;or t"e soul t"ere is neit"er $irt" nor deat" at any ticome into $eing, does not come into $eing, and #ill

$eing. He is un$orn, eternal, e-er


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&ature of Selfvssi !"r#ni yath vihya navni $%h#ti natath (ar"r#i vihya !"r#ny anyni sayti n

As a 'erson 'uts on ne) $arments* $ivin$ u' oldsimilarly acce'ts ne) material +odies* $ivin$ u' useless ones. ,- .

naina chindanti (astr#i naina dahati '

1he soul can never +e cut to 'ieces +y any )ea'o+y fire* nor moistened +y )ater* nor )ithered +y .2


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&ature of Self

his individual soul is unbreakable and inand can be neither burned nor dried. 1e ieverlasting, present everyhere, unchangimmovable and eternally the same.

jtasya hi dhruvo m2tyur dhruva janma m

tasmd aparihrye 'rthe na tva &ocitum ar

+ne ho has taken his birth is sure to diedeath one is sure to take birth again. herunavoidable discharge of your duty, you slament.


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=inds of Selfis"ness

;alse sense of selfis"nessIndi-idualistic selfis"ness

6)anded>6tended Selfis"ness

=no#ing t"e true self and #or!ing for

$etterment

?edic @iteratures say t"at t"e $ettermelies in acting for t"e #elfare of all t"e lentities

3"at leads to Selflessness


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Selflessness

It in-ol-es understanding t"e false and

4or!ing for true self

It in-ol-es acting for t"e $etterment of

lea-in entities 4"y

4e are )art and )arcel of +od

-ery ot"er i-a is also a )art and )arcel o

It is t"e function of t"e )art to ser-e t"e #

As #e all are )art and )arcel of +od #e s"eac" ot"er maintain "armony and to )lea


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