00:00Acharya Shankar goes to his teacher and is asked to introduce himself. He says my
00:07real identity is not at all related to the body. I'm not the vital breath, I'm
00:11not the five vital air, I'm not the seven ingredients of the body, I'm not the
00:16five sheets of the body, I'm not the organ of speech, not the organ of hand, I'm
00:23not the feet, I'm not the organ of excretion, I'm just Shiv. The great
00:34teacher here is very clearly telling us that Shiv is the one who has nothing
00:42bodily about himself. The highest consciousness that is what is referred
00:48to as a Shiva. Shiv is not an idea, Shiv is not a figment of your imagination, Shiv is
00:54not someone you can refer to in such loose terms. Shiv is not someone you can
01:01think of as belonging to the same kinds of origins as a normal usual human being
01:11does. But because we are bodily corporal, our ego does not allow us to admit
01:18that there can be anything beyond who we are and that's also the cause of all
01:24human suffering.
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