Human Mechanism

Recall, from my previous article that the Biological Machine called Human Beings has Five Koshas or Sheaths of Body.

The outermost layer is the Physical Body or the Annamaya Kosha which is visible to us through naked eye. It is like the hardware of the computer.

The second layer is the Energy Body or the Pranamaya Kosha. Prana, the INTELLIGENT Energy, flows more or less like Electricity flows in the circuit of hardware. It is the Prana which powers the hardware – the Physical Body.

The third layer is the Mental Body or the Manomaya Kosha which is also a subtle body. It is the INTELLIGENT body and gives instructions for efficient functioning of the Physical Body. Again it is the Prana which powers the subtle hardware – the Mental Body.

But, have you ever wondered how the Biological Machine receives the instructions for its efficient functioning?

The Software

Please watch the below video from Sadhguru

In the above video, Sadhguru talks about how Prana can carry some amount of memory upon it. This Pranic Memory is the source of software or instructions for the functioning of the Physical Machine.

Let, us take an example from the modern world to understand it better. At present, users install Microsoft Windows and all other software directly into the computer’s hardware.

Instead, in future we may have Smart Electricity. This implies that we could utilize the memory embedded upon the electricity for passing software to the computer.

So, the same device could function differently depending upon what kind of software you embed upon the electricity that you supply to it.

In a similar manner, the human mechanism functions. The basic hardware or anatomy is the same for all human beings except a few Cosmetic Changes which is just a minute percentage of the genetic instructions or DNA.

Soul which is Consciousness & Prana, has Memory or Software of actions from Past Births as well as some Core Survival Software embedded upon it.

The software associates with the Physical Body during the time the womb develops it.

These memories or software make the body function and we call them Karmic Software. Therefore, another way of defining Karma is that it is MEMORY.

The breathtaking diversity that we see in the behaviour of human beings is because of some set of instructions or software that have become different due to actions in the material world and also from past births.

Karmic Software has a very sophisticated design. It organizes into layers, more or less like an operating system, with Linux being the closest one.

Human Mechanism is a Microcosmic unit of the larger Macrocosmos and there is a 1-1 correspondence between them. Watch the below video.

Let us understand why Human Mechanism is made the way it is and is a vehicle of the DIVINE Consciousness.

Mapping Consciousness and Humans

At first there was pure consciousness which is called SHI-VA (that which is not), the Universal Consciousness.

Then arose a desire to experience itself which it does by movement of MahaPrana or the Primal Energy or SHAKTI.

Similarly, the Human Mechanism is driven by Individual Consciousness or Soul. There is a desire to experience itself which is facilitated by movement of PRANA (a subset of MahaPrana).

Evolution of Human Being

By performing Yoga & Meditation Practices, we are trying to utilize and tame this Prana in the Microcosmic Unit of the human body.

This is done so that Kundalini Shakti, at the Mooladhara Chakra combines with SHI-VA at the Sahasrara Chakra. This leads to a state of SuperConsciousness.

This is what evolution of human being means which is anyway going to happen over next 2-3 million years.

By performing Yoga & Meditation, we are just speeding up this process of Human Evolution.  For example, 10 years of Kriya Yoga is equivalent to 1 million years of human evolution.

So, the Divine Consciousness wants to fully experience itself through the Superconscious state of a Human Being. Human Mechanism is a vehicle of the DIVINE.