पुरमेकादशद्वार-
मजस्यावक्रचेतसः ।
अनुष्ठाय न शोचति
विमुक्तश्च विमुच्यते। एतद्वैतत् ॥ १
PURAM EKADASHA DWARAM
AJASHYA AVAKRACHETASAH|
ANUSHTHAY NA SHOCHATI
VIMUKTASCHYA VIMUCHYATE ||ETAD VAI TAD ||1
THE CITY OF UNBORNE (BRAHMAN) WHOSE KNOWLEDGE IS PERMANENT, HAS 11
GATES. ADORING HIM, ONE DOES NOT GRIEVE AND BECOMES FREE ( FROM
IGNORANCE ) AND LIBERATED THIS VERILY IS THAT ||1
This Shloka has not much different than what we have been told in past . The new thing that they mention is that the Human Body has 11 openings . The Human Body is compared to a city with doors . In past the cities had doors that were closed at night and then opened . This was for the protection of the people that stayed inside but also to protect the KING of the city . So the King of the Human Body is the soul or the Reflection of Brahman,So in this Shloka we are told that when one realizes that the 1) Brahman is UNBORN 2) it stays in the Human Body - physical Body is eternal and so KNOWING it gives us the ability to ot grieve about the loss of the Physical Body and that Knowledge will set us free..
The 11 openings that are mentioned in this Shloka are the 11 openings of the body . We all know most of them , The 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils , 1 mouth and one umbilicus and anal and urinary openings . This adds to 10 and the 11th one is the one on the top of skull . This is the place where the sutures in the skull close as the newborn matures ,but one can feel the opening in new born. The one that I mentioned as Umbilicus ,is an opening and we are connected to the mother through it and then it is closed when we are born . So these are 11 openings or the gates in Human Body.
