पराञ्चि खानि व्यतृणत् स्वयम्भू
स्तस्मात्पराङ्पश्यति नान्तरात्मन् ।
कश्चिद्धीरः प्रत्यगात्मानमैक्ष
दावृत्तचक्षुरमृतत्वमिच्छन् ॥ १
PARACHHHI KHANI VYATRUNAT SWAYMBHU
TASMAT PARAN PASHYANTI NA ANTARATMAN |
KASCHIT DHIRAH PRATYAGATAMANM AIKSHAD
AVRUTTA CHAKSHUR AMRUTAVAM ICHHAN ||1
THE ONE WHO IS SELF BORNE -(SWAYAMBHU) OR BRAMAN CREATED THE SENSES
WHICH HAVE OUT GOING TENDENCIES AND SO SEES -PERCEIVES EXTERNAL
UNIVERSE AND NOT THE INNER SELF .SOME WISE MEN TURN THEIR VISION 'INSIDE'
DUE TO DESIRE FOR IMMORTALITY ||1
It might sound as repetition, but the Lord of Death continues to tell Nachiket as to how one can get better or look at SELF . We have senses - 5 for perception and 5 for action . One might wonder as to why we have them or why the CREATER or Braham gave us these if with use of them we are 'involved' in External world or engage in sense organ pleasures only and get lost. But when we have physical body , we must have instrument to 'protect' it. So we are given these senses . If we can not see then we will succumb to injuries and predator's attacks . If I don't have hunger I will not eat and die and if I can run I will be killed by lions or tigers etc . So each of the senses - both perception and action- have a purpose in our survival. The problem is not that they serve a purpose in our life . The problem is we misuse them . We use hands to not help but hurt and we overeat and so on. So there are impulses that arise in NERVES that take the message from out side world and then it goes to the brain centers and then we have perception and we ACT based on our previous experience . If we hear the music that we like . we ill pay attention and have pleasure , if it is food that we see and have liked it in past , we act to eat it. So we have information from outside and we do action which affects outside world. The information from outside and the action from inside out is at the level of BRAIN-MIND-INTELLECT and not at any higher level. The SELF is not involved in the process and we -whatever that we means - is not self and in this Shlok we are told to INVERT the attention to that SELF and not allow it to be spent OURSIDE world . This does not mean that we should not eat or enjoy the beauty or not eat good food . But we need to avoid ATTACHMENET and desires and lust that comes with it. For those who are Indians and remember old song of Raj Kapoor called MOOD MOOD KE NA DEKH . Which means don't turn and see. If you enjoy good food don't indulge and don't think about it or if a beautiful lady walks away from you don't turn and continue to look.
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