Class 32, Tattva Bodha

In this luminous and decisive class, Acharya Tadany revisited and deepened the moonlight analogy to establish five fundamental principles of consciousness, proving that the awareness we experience in the body is neither part, product, nor property of the body itself but an independent, non-material principle (caitanya) borrowed from ātmā. 

Using the full moon (pūrṇimā) as a living illustration, Acharya Tadany showed: 

(1) moonlight is not part, product, or property of the moon, it is borrowed from the sun; 

(2) it is an independent principle that pervades and enlivens the moon, making it appear luminous; 

(3) it is not limited by the moon’s boundaries; 

(4) it continues to exist even if the moon dissolves; and 

(5) it becomes unrecognizable without a reflecting medium. 

Applying each principle precisely to consciousness: 

Consciousness is not generated by the body (insentient matter cannot produce sentience), 

Consciousness pervades and enlivens the body-mind complex, 

Consciousness is not confined to the body’s limits, 

Consciousness survives the body’s death/dissolution, 

and Consciousness becomes imperceptible without the body as reflector — yet it remains eternally present as ātmā’s very nature. 

Acharya Tadany stressed that this understanding destroys body-identification and opens the direct path to Self-knowledge, concluding that consciousness minus the body is abstract and unrecognizable to the senses, but never absent, setting the stage for deeper revelation of ātmā in upcoming classes.

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