Tadany Um refúgio para a alma e um convite à consciência.
Tattva-Bodha_Class-27_AI-Generated-Summary_Acharya-TadanyIn this richly detailed class, Acharya Tadany continues the systematic mapping of the material aspect (anātmā) of the human being by unpacking the five sheaths (pañca-kośa), presenting them as a complementary model to the three bodies (śarīra-trayam) and three states (avasthā-trayam).
With the annamaya kośa (food sheath) identified as identical to the gross physical body (sthūla śarīram), a refined form of earth (pṛthivī) originating from the plant kingdom (oṣadhi), converted into food (anna), consumed, assimilated, and ultimately returned to earth through death and decomposition. Thus forming, growing, and sustaining the body through the entire life cycle via the sacred process of garbhādhānam (conception), umbilical nourishment, breastfeeding, and eventual dissolution.
He traced the Upaniṣadic teaching that food is the cause of origination (śṛṣṭi kāraṇam), sustenance (sthiti kāraṇam), and resolution (laya kāraṇam) of the physical body, humorously noting that even misers become generous at death when bacteria feast on their remains, underscoring the cyclical truth: “From earth we come, through food we grow, to earth we return.”
The class reinforced that the physical body is merely the grossest layer of the material personality (annamaya kośa), the outermost veil obscuring the eternal ātmā, and serves as a reminder that all material existence, however beautiful or functional, is ultimately transient clay, urging students to discern the impermanent from the permanent while appreciating the sacred role of food and earth in sustaining the human journey until liberation.
