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JAGRAD-AVASTHA:


JAGRAD-AVASTHA


The term Jagrad-avastha means wakeful state.  It is a combination of jagrad+avastha ,ie.wakeful+state.  If the three bodies sthula, sukshma and karana dehas ie. the grossbody ,the subtle body and the causal body areactie it is called jagrad-state.  The pure consciousness passes through these three bodies during wake-state. The passes through pancha-jnanendriyas and perceive experiences in jagra-state.  In jagrad-state only mind interacts with external world. In deep sleep mind merges in individual consciousness. Just after waking the individual identifies with gross body and says that he has enjoyed peaceful sleep.  In jagrad –state the gross body stops working because the mind does`nt work.   In dream state the subtle body is active; hence mind creates its own illusory world. Where as in deep sleep state both gross body and subtle body don`t function. But in all these three states the consciousness ‘I ‘EXISTS. That ‘I’ illuminates these three bodies in jagrad-state.
It is only in the wake state, when the individual identifies with the gross body. The senses perceive the external world of objects.  In deep sleep state there is no identification with the gross body, so there is no perception of the external world by the senses.
The individual identifies with the gross body as “I am the body ‘comes to contact with the world of objects and rushes to indulgewith them.  This “waker” waking state ‘ego ‘,which experience the external objects in the jagrad-state because of itsidentification with the grossbody is termes ‘visva’. ‘Visva’ literally means ‘that which expresses in each and every individual body’. 


Dr A. Tara Lakshmi,
Srikalakasti

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