Passage 10

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In plain words

For cloth there must be thread. For thread there must be cotton. Cotton became thread. Thread became cloth. Without cotton there is no thread at all. Without thread there is no cloth. So the cotton, that is saṅkalpa. The threads are the desires. The mind, which is the cloth, is just the threads woven together. Bundle of desires is mind. When there are no desires, there is no mind there. That is why they called it amanaska.

It fell under Māyā, it became the abode of Māyā; Māyā became twenty-five mantras; if you know the twenty-five mantras of Māyā, Māyā, Māyā, Māyā is then laid bare.

What are the twenty-five mantras? The five organs of action, the five prāṇas, the five sheaths, the five elements: these four make twenty. Manas, Buddhi, citta and Ahaṅkāra, four; then the principle of the jīva: all together, twenty-five. What is made up of these twenty-five principles is the piṇḍa. Piṇḍa means the body. Aṇḍa, piṇḍa, brahmāṇḍa. What is born of an egg is aṇḍa. What is born of the mother's womb is piṇḍa. What is everywhere they called brahmāṇḍa. All three are in our body. The oneness of aṇḍa, piṇḍa and brahmāṇḍa is the oneness of the tripuṭi. That is trikūṭami. Kūṭami means coming together. Śrī Rāmacandra dwells on the mountain Trikūṭa. Where is the meeting? It is the meeting of the three: jīva, Īśvara and Prakṛti.

What is one through waking, dream and deep sleep is tāraka

What is the Rāma principle? ‘Rā’ means the Ātma; ‘ma’ means Māyā. When Māyā joins the Ātma, it becomes the Rāma principle. Rāma-japa is not chanting ‘Rām Rām Rām’. The mind must become one with God (the Ātma). That is true Rāma-japa; that is the true tāraka principle. What does tāraka mean? It is the tāraka that the jīvātma repeats again and again, at all times, never letting the curtain of forgetfulness fall, unceasingly, holding nothing back. What is one through waking, dream and deep sleep, that is tāraka.