[Advaita-l] Who is this Angustha Parimana Purusha?

[Shashwata Shastri]

Pujyapad Sridhar Ji,

It was not my intention to relate Anahuta with the angushta matra purusha.
I was trying to state that whether that thumb sized purusha resides in the
Anahuta discus or not. But so far I understood one thing that it is the
physical heart. In deep of our heart there are one hundred types of
principal subtle cords. I think those cords act like some kind of energy
channel in order to maintain the flow of Prana. In our very heart there is
a grape or thumb sized luminous orb . The space which contains that orb is
identified as Brahmapura by kenopanishat. This heart is the seat of that
great self. The self being veiled by 5 sheaths pervades  that space.  In
that space all the subtle elements of the subtle body take shelter. Subtle
elements are invisible to the naked eye. There, the purusha gets covered by
the casual and the subtle body. According to my opinion, this purusha can
be defined as the Saguna Brahman. Well verse no. 17 of Katha tells us the
way to seperate the self from these inert elements. By the means of
separation, we can attain nirguna Brahman.

शतं चैका हृदয়स्यनाड्य स्तासांमूर्धानमभि निःसृतैका।
तয়ोर्द्धमाয়न्नमृतत्बमेति बिष्बगण्या उৎक्रमणे भबन्ति।। १६ ।। -कठ द्बितीয়
अध्याয় तृतीয় बल्ली  १६ तम  श्लोक।

By the help of that principal vein which is identified as the Shushumna (In
shushumna there is another subtle cord which is known as chitra and in
chitra there is another cord which is called Brahma nadi.) one can achieve
Brahmaloka (The loka of Hiranyagarva) and there by the help of Lord Brahma
one can attain nectar or liberation.

But in my point of view, the verse no. 17 are for those who actually want
to attain liberation while being present in the living body. The term which
is used for describing such status is Jivanmukta.

P.S: Do shower your light of knowledge regarding my statement. I can be
wrong too.

Best Regards,


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On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Nithin Sridhar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> In my limited understanding, Angushta Matra-Purusha, who exists in the
> Hrdaya, does not refer to Anahata Chakra. Both are completely different
> scheme of understandings.
>
> Hrdaya refers to the center of Individual existence. Ramana Maharshi says
> it is to the right side of our chest (as opposed to physical heart which is
> towards left). When Sri Krishna says, he stays inside Hrdaya of all beings,
> he may be referring to this Angushta Matra Purusha. Thus, the size refers
> to the size of manifestation of Brahman in the Hradaya as Chaitya Purusha-
> the Inner Controller.
>
> Learned members may correct me, if I have got anything wrong.
>
> Regards
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> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Sujal Upadhyay via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste,
> >
> > Thank you. I think they are approximate measurements, to make location of
> > chakra-s easy.
> >
> > angushta means big toe. Am I correct?
> >
> > OM
> >
> > Sujal Upadhyay
> >
> > "To disconnect from the self and to become Aware of anything else is
> > nothing but unhappiness" - Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi
> >
> > He who has faith has all
> > He who lacks faith, lacks all
> > It is the faith int he name of lord that works wonders
> > FAITH IS LIFE, DOUBT IS DEATH - Sri Ramakrishna
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <
> > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Namaste,
> > >
> > > I think ir is 96 angulas, not angusthas. While the height of a person
> is
> > > 96 angula, the ShassrAra chakra is at the height of 108 angulas.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > > On Sat, 4/2/16, Venkata sriram P via Advaita-l <
> > > advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Subject: [Advaita-l] Who is this Angustha Parimana Purusha?
> > >  To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> > >  Date: Saturday, April 2, 2016, 1:27 AM
> > >
> > >  नमस्ते,
> > >
> > >  "Thumb" was one of the ancient measuring scales. "Palm" was
> > >  also used.
> > >
> > >  So, the height of one's body was measured in terms of one's
> > >  thumb, in general
> > >  (to be precise - the distance FROM the dark line in the
> > >  middle of the thumb TO
> > >  the origin of the thumb).
> > >
> > >  The त्रिषिखि
> > >  ब्राह्मणोपनिषद् says:
> > >
> > >  देहमानं
> > >  स्वाङ्गुलिभिः
> > >  षण्णवत्यङ्गुलायतम् ।
> > >  प्राणः शरीरादधिको
> > >  द्वादशाङ्गुलमानतः
> > >
> > >  The measure of one's body is 96 times of the size of one's
> > >  own thumb.
> > >
> > >  Hence, अङ्गुष्ठ प्रमाण
> > >  पुरुषः should be taken from this perspective
> > >  rather than
> > >  splitting the meaning from metaphysical perspective.
> > >
> > >  श्रीरामकिंकरः
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