[Advaita-l] Which entities are said to possess a sUxma sharIra ?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Some typos in my earlier mail....It should have read..
 and enters the male body and upon copulation enters the female body and
after conception at some point after fertlization of the gametes, ...

My apologies
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On Fri 27 Apr, 2018, 2:24 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula, <
raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Chandramouli ji
> The referred brahma sutra is talking about an indirectly related topic i
> was familiar with but interesting in its own right .
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> The brahma sutra 3.1.24 you referred to makes an interesting point made in
> the Chandogya upanishad about the anushayI jivaH who is merely associated
> with but does not undergo sukha dukha when he only hitches a ride on water
> vapour then liquid water, then barley, rice etc., and is untouched by
> suffering when the barley plant is harvested (effectively killed) and the
> grains are pounded and cooked etc.,  and enters the male body and upon
> population enter the female body and after convection at some point after
> fertlization of the game yes, between t=0 days to t=84 to 120 days after
> fertlization of the egg, a major transformation happens to the hitherto
> sleeping jIva when the anushayI jIva wakes up and is traumatized to find
> himself in the new body and regrets having been taken for a ride by mAyA
> and has ended up born once again in a yoni.
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> In the above process, the sleeping anushayI jIva is carried for a while by
> some other jIva who is actually identified with that particular plant of
> rice or barley whose grains are eaten. For that other jIva who was born as
> that sthAvara plant, there is actual sukha dukha when the plant is killed
> or harmed but not for the anushayI.
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> All this is certainly mind blogging and vairagya inducing too. Just a
> recap of what is already familiar to you I am sure.
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> One of my questions was about how we reason that a single cell is an
> independent jIva in some cases while in others , its regarded as just a
> building block of some other multi celular jIva.
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> A related question would be
> Does it make sense to talk of a single subtle body for a colony of smaller
> creatures like the well-known Hofstadter  anthill, corals and sponges for
> example? I don't think so but looking for some reasons to justify it.
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> Thank you
> Om
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> On Fri 27 Apr, 2018, 12:57 PM H S Chandramouli, <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Namaste Sri Raghav Ji,
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>> Reg  << So its a moot question whether it is an independent
>> jIva at all in the first place.>>,
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>> Perhaps the question is answered in BSB 3-1-24. Some of the other
>> questions as well. Please refer and confirm if it does. I do not want to
>>  simply  imagine what you meant and answer. Perhaps you can yourself
>> clarify.
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>> Regards
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