THE RELATIONSHIP OF DHRMEKHETRA WITH HUMAN BODY

THE RELATIONSHIP OF DHRMEKHETRA WITH HUMAN BODY

The field of body is actually divided in to three parts or three gunas. They are, the naturally experienced and manifested which are in here in the human body or natural pakriti or cosmic nature. They are Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas.

Sattva is the positive attribute, influences towards good, truth, purity and spirituality.

Tamas the negative attribute, influence towards darkness or evil, untruth, inertial, ignorance.

Rajas the neutral attribute is the activating quality working on Sattva, to suppress Tamas or on Tamas to suppress Sattva. It creates constant activity and motion.

Sattva manifests through the bodily field, on its periphery of the body and includes the five instruments through which we acquire our knowledge i.e ear, skin, eye, tongue, nose and he five instruments of actions, the mouth which produces the speech, the hands and the feet and the organs of excretion and pro creations. The outer surfaces of the human body are the scene of continuous sensory and motor activities. Hence is called Kurukshetra, the filed of external action where all activities of the outer world are accomplished.

Sattva is the place of abode of Rajas and Tamas. It is created by the gross atomic matter of physical body by creative elemental vibrations of earth, water, fire, air and ether causing matter to appear in its recognizable five varieties i.e Solid, liquid, fiery, gaseous, and ethereal. Being negative or dark quality of nature, Tamas, is thus the subtle essence of matter under the cover of grossness ad creating ignorance in man the perceiver.

The predominance of Rajas, the activating quality, in the field of Kurukshetra is evidenced in the restlessly active nature of man and in the ever changing character of the world he strives so ineffectively to control.

Rajas the bodily field of action is the cerebrospinal axis with its six sable centers of life and consciousness medulla, cervical, dorsal, lumbar sacral and coccygeal and its two magnetic poles of mind ad intelligence( Buddhi), pulled towards grossness by manas, the subtle faculties in these centers emerge outwardly, projecting like the rays of a full flamed gas light, keeping the sensory and motor faculties active in the human body. Retiring inwardly, pulled by Buddhi, the subtle faculties and absorbed in the cerebral region ad becomes merged in to one soul conscious, like the flames of a lowered gas light. The cerebrospinal axis with the six subtle centers is called Dharmakshetra Kurukshetra field of subtle energies and super mental forces as well as of gross action.

The dominant attributes of nature here are Rajas and Sattva. Rajas acting on the five subtle elemental vibrations, produces the powers of the five organs of actions, manual skill(hands) locomotion(feet) speech, procreation and excretion It also produces the five specialized currents of prana that sustain the vital bodily functions.

Sattva acting on the five subtle vibratory elements creates the subtle organs of perception. - The powers that enliven, the physical five sense instruments. The true subtle nature of matter and the calmness, self control and other spiritual powers, experienced, in the cerebrospinal centers by the deeply meditating Yogi are also the effects of Sattva in this field of Dharmakshetra Kurukshetra.

Rajas the third portion of the bodily field is the brain. It extends the breadth of the extension the fen fingers from the point in the middle of the eye brows to the circle or ring spot on the top of the head.(The frontal fontanel a little opening in the skull that gradually closes after the birth of the infant) to the medulla. This place is called Dharmakshetra and consists of the medulla and the frontal and middle upper parts of the cerebrum with their astral centers of the spiritual eye ad thousand –petaled lotus ad the corresponding states of Devine consciousness.