Indriya

King of gods is mind.

And all the Indriyas...

the senses, sense organs, the perceptions, the faculty of perception, all those, they are like the gods within us.

Even there are instances when all the gods become intoxicated.

And indriya are, are interesting.

Well, it's, uh, it's translated as faculties, sometimes translated as powers.

Indriya comes from the same sort of root as, um, I think the, uh, the god Indriya, which is the transforming god, which is like this sort of stuff.

So it's what...

And these are the twenty-two faculties that humans have.

And then I used one imagery.

So five Indriyas, Pancha Indriyas, Ashta raga, so 8 different ragas that we all have.

3 gunas, so how much is 5 plus 8? 13 plus 3 gunas, vidya, avidya.

That is 18.

So I have to remove this abhimana, the i-identification that I have on, from the sthula sharira.

I have to move it first to the indriyas.

Indriyas are subtler, more pervading, more closer, or cl- rather closer to the atma than the physical body.

Now, comparing to the indriyas, the mind is much more subtler.

The mind is more pervading, and the mind is closer to atma.

The same thing goes, uh, with the...

Same thing holds good for this body also.

The Sthula Sharira, the Sukshma Sharira, the Indriyas, the Manaha, the Buddhis, and all those things.