Class 26, Tattva Bodha

In this illuminating class, Acharya Tadany completed the exploration of the three states of experience (avasthā-trayam) by unveiling deep sleep (suṣupti avasthā) as the domain of the causal body (kāraṇa śarīram), where the gross and subtle bodies temporarily resolve, leaving only the dual experience of total ignorance (ajñānam) and profound bliss (ānanda), a state so complete that we wake refreshed yet paradoxically remember “I knew nothing,” proving consciousness persists even when subject-object duality vanishes. 

Acharya Tadany masterfully explained how the mind (cittaṁ) stores unlimited impressions (vāsanās) from all lifetimes through the five senses, manifesting in children’s innate talents, fears, or nightmares from past-life residues, and how dreams (svapna avasthā) replay these as vividly real private universes illuminated by the dreamer (taijasa), while waking (jāgrat avasthā) engages the external world through the waker (viśvaḥ). 

Transitioning to the five sheaths (pañca-kośa), Acharya Tadany presented them as another lens on the same three bodies: annamaya (physical), prāṇamaya (vital energy), manomaya (emotional), vijñānamaya (intellectual), and ānandamaya (blissful/causal), driven by the three powers

action (kriyā-śakti), 

desire (icchā-śakti), 

and knowledge (jñāna-śakti)

that fuel life’s endless cycle of knowing → desiring → acquiring, 

yet can be redirected toward mokṣa once we know the ultimate object worth desiring is our own Self. The class closed with the liberating insight that total ignorance in deep sleep grants temporary happiness, but only knowledge (jñāna) grants permanent freedom, urging us to use this lifetime’s rare human opportunity to purify the mind before the next cosmic reboot.

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