C. Inner Controller (Antaryaamee) Braahmana
Aaruni Uddaalaka asked Yaajnyavalkya - do you know that cord and that inner controller who is controlling this world, other worlds and all elements from the inside? Yaajnyavalkya replied - the wind (vital force) alone is that cord. It, like space, holds earth, water, fire and all elements. Subtle bodies, made out of the action-desires of beings, with seventeen elements, is created. On its departure alone do all of the limbs of the body scatter, just like beads of a necklace scattering on the breaking of their string. Therefore, this alone is the cord. Now hear the description of the inner controller, the antarayaamee!
To investigate the inner controller, first focus on the support of all entities and elements, the earth, after that, take your focus inside the earth. This inner limit is the arrogator deity of the earth. He also is not the inner controller. That of which this deity is a scene, is the inner controller. Due to its presence, the rule-drven engagement and withdrawal of the earth deity's body and sense organs happens. The inner controller does not have any different body or sense organs than that of the earth deity's. Therefore, the body and sense organs of the earth deity are the body and sense organs of the inner controller. Through this logic, we can call the earth as the body of the inner controller, in reality he is without body, He who does not have any specific body has all of the bodies as his own. Then, how are different bodies controlled differently? It happens through rules. Due to the prior desires of souls, the body, sense organs and internal organs are created in the five elements. That alone inspires the dealings of engagement and withdrawal. Everything happens under the supervision of the inner controller, therefore he is the governor, this is said. Now, like it holds true for the earth, the same point holds true for its effects, the bodies of the beings. He who lives in the body, inside the body, not the arrogator soul of the body, he who the soul does not know, who holds the flesh body as his form, he who governs the body while staying inside it, that pure witness awareness who is the self of that soul, he alone is the inner controller. Then, is the inner controller of the earth, and the inner controller of one body, two different things? No. The shruti says that both are one. The inner controller of the earth is that "that" aspect and the inner controller of one body is the "you" aspect. That which is the that aspect is the you aspect. This is just another form of "you are that".
Yaajnyavalkya says that the student should not only investigate into the inner controller of the earth. In fact, in water, fire, space, wind, heaven, sun, direction, moon-stars, external tamas which is veiling, lustre or "adhidaiva", in all of these, he should investigate the inner controller. That one awareness which stays in all of them and governs them, that to which all of their deities are inferior, that which they do not know, that which is the illuminator of all these, these are the bodies of that, that awareness alone is the inner controller and that alone is the pure witness of the student. Similarly, there is investigation of the "adhibhoota" and "adhyaatma" also. He who is sitting in the vital force, inside the vital force, that which is not known by the vital force, he who governs the vital force while residing inside it, he alone is the immortal inner controller, and he alone is your pure self. Speech, eyes, ears, mind, skin, science, vitality. are also desires with this vision.
Now, how to see this inner controller? How can you convert the seer into a seen? Impossible. Yaajnyavalkya says - he cannot be seen, he is the one who sees, he cannot be heard, he is the one who hears, he is not an object of the mind but the thinker, he is not known but is the knower. There is no other seer of him, his hearer, thinker, knower is none other than himself. It is you yourself.
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