[Advaita-l] Cosmic Ego

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:42 PM Sudhakar Kabra via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Respected members,
> Can someone give hints to the following:
>
> It is said that whatever is there in microcosm (Vyasti)  is also there in
> macrocosm (Samasti )Yat ande tat pinde.
>
> Microcosmic (Individualistic) ego is ahamkara. Is there anything called
> Cosmic Ego?If so, its explanation and/or references needed.
>

To my knowledge the Cosmic Ego is the Hiranyagarbha who has 'abhimana',
identification, with the entirety of the jivas in creation. He is said to
be the sukhsma sharira abhimani of all beings.  Shankaracharya says he is
'pure', free from raga dvesha.  In the run-up to direct realization, a
penultimate state is to expand our consciousness to the Hiranyagarbha.  In
the Kathopanishad bhashya  1.3.13 we have:

यच्छेद्वाङ्मनसी प्राज्ञस्तद्यच्छेज्ज्ञान आत्मनि ।
ज्ञानमात्मनि महति नियच्छेत्तद्यच्छेच्छान्त आत्मनि ॥ १३ ॥

तत्प्रतिपत्त्युपायमाह — यच्छेत् नियच्छेदुपसंहरेत् प्राज्ञः विवेकी । किम् ?
वाक् वाचम् ; वागत्रोपलक्षणार्था सर्वेषामिन्द्रियाणाम् । क्व ? मनसी मनसि ।
छान्दसं दैर्घ्यम् । तच्च मनः यच्छेत् ज्ञाने प्रकाशस्वरूपे बुद्धावात्मनि ।
बुद्धिर्हि मनआदिकरणान्याप्नोतीत्यात्मा प्रत्यक् च तेषाम् । *ज्ञानं बुद्धिम्
आत्मनि महति प्रथमजे नियच्छेत् । प्रथमजवत्**स्वच्छस्वभावकमात्मनो*
* विज्ञानमापादयेदित्यर्थः ।* तं च महान्तमात्मानं यच्छेत् शान्ते
सर्वविशेषप्रत्यस्तमितरूपे अविक्रिये सर्वान्तरे सर्वबुद्धिप्रत्ययसाक्षिणि
मुख्ये आत्मनि ॥

//ज्ञानं बुद्धिम् आत्मनि महति प्रथमजे नियच्छेत् । प्रथमजवत्
स्वच्छस्वभावकमात्मनो विज्ञानमापादयेदित्यर्थः ।//  This Mahat tattva is
called the 'prathamaja', 'first-born.'  We may identify this with the
Puranic four-faced Brahma who appeared from the navel-Lotus of Vishnu.

There is also the sequence
http://www.ayurvedaamritvani.com/srushti-utpatti---formation-of-universe.html
.

There could be some variations too in the specifications.

regards
subbu



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