DILIP RAJEEV
The individual self enters Nature. Nature, Prakriti, in ancient Sanskrit is a term for the manifest universe. The Universe that we are in. The Individual Self is something that is thrown into nature, and is infact different from Nature itself. Surrounded by factors that generate an illusion for it – it thinks it performs actions out of its own will, in Nature. It is Nature who performs the action, and the Individual Self merely observes it. Think of the body’s function of breathing. It is the body that breathes. The self observes it. Within the choices offered by the body, one may choose to breathe slowly or fast, or not to breathe for a while. But all these choices are limited by the what Nature offers. Think of the human body as Nature, and the will inside as the individual self. If the individual self were to will that it should fly to another planet – it won’t happen, if the nature of the body doesn’t offer that choice of action.
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