In English
"" indicates the true form of man
Total purity is essential for all (spiritual disciplines). To achieve this purity one has to understand the difference between (spiritual well-being) and (mundane happiness). True humanness consists in knowing the nature, of the (the Indwelling Spirit). (speech), (the mind) and (the life-force) together constitute the . The three syllables contained in the Sanskrith word indicate the true form of man. represents food, represents water and represents (the Sun). The implied meaning of the term is that the Sun provides the water which helps man to grow food. When is interpreted in the reverse order, it means that the Reality is realised by the penance and control of the senses ( for Reality, for - penance, and for and other forms of control over the senses). Control of the senses and the desires arising from them is almost impossible. What can be done, however, is to turn all the desires towards the Divine. This will be rendered possible when one realises that all the sense organs - the eyes, the ears, the nose and the tongue - derive their functional capacities from the (Indwelling Spirit). It is the (the athmik consciousness) that animates the sense organs and enables the eyes to see, the ears to hear and the tongue to taste. The role of consciousness is like that of the 'current, which enables a bulb to shed light. It is because this Athmik consciousness is present in all beings, it has been described as .