SB 2.10.23 Notes -2/26/22

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.10.23 TODAY (2/26/22):

  • There is an intimate relation between the hairs on the body and the vegetation on the body of the earth. The vegetables are nourishment for the skin both as food and medicine, as stated in the Third Canto: tvacam asya vinirbhinnāṁ viviśur dhiṣṇyam oṣadhīḥ.

SB 2.10.23 TRANSLATION:

When there was a desire to perceive the physical characteristics of matter, such as softness, hardness, warmth, cold, lightness and heaviness, the background of sensation, the skin, the skin pores, the hairs on the body and their controlling deities (the trees) were generated. Within and outside the skin is a covering of air through which sense perception became prominent.

The physical characteristics of matter, such as softness, are subjects of sense perception, and thus physical knowledge is the subject matter of the touch sensation. One can measure the temperature of matter by touching with the hand, and one can measure the weight of an object by lifting it with the hand and thus estimate its heaviness or lightness. The skin, the skin pores and the hairs on the body are all interdependent with the touch sensation. The air blowing within and outside the skin is also an object of sense perception. This sense perception is also a source of knowledge, and therefore it is suggested here that physical or physiological knowledge is subordinate to the knowledge of the Self, as above mentioned. Knowledge of Self can expand to the knowledge of phenomena, but physical knowledge cannot lead to knowledge of the Self.

There is, however, an intimate relation between the hairs on the body and the vegetation on the body of the earth. The vegetables are nourishment for the skin both as food and medicine, as stated in the Third Canto: tvacam asya vinirbhinnāṁ viviśur dhiṣṇyam oṣadhīḥ.

Permanent material body in an impermanent world. 

Somatosensory – ability to study sense of touch

Touch – non verbal communication 

Kinetics – how do we use body movements and  facial expressions, eye contact 

Haptics- study of touch 

Babies and parents 

Everything begins from Krishna – Spiritual vision 

Material education – limited in scope , piecemeal, incomplete, people remain incomplete they do not attain fulfillment and they do not attain love 

Spiritual education – everything in scope – 

Never – Love, sustained happiness, immortality, 

Mundane activities, mundane subjects

Article – Last 30 sec of life a part of brain becomes very active

Plethora of information of how creation took place in detail in  SB. 

Dandelion – very useful herbs – edible and medicinal

Land cress – Barbarea verna

Chlorophyll is a very healing substance

Interconnectedness of things is much more important than the things that we can only see and receive.. 

All the things that cause cancer in the home

Round up – Human carcinogen 

Natural products, how to grow them, use of microcausla funguses and bacteria in the soil 

Morning cereals – very detrimental to the health

We need only small qty of vitamins and minerals 

If we eat food which is nutritionally depleted, we get hungry very soon, we cannot stop eating.. 

Real Intelligence – Eat your medicine everyday – Vegetables