The Root of Delusion

"Sensitivity is from sensory activity and it is based on body, while it is jeevan that keeps the senses alive.  The root of delusion of jeevan is its belief that body is the conscious being.  When jeevan believes body to be self (conscious being) then living happens according to body.  This is the basis of believing without knowing.  What should happen instead?  The body needs to be believed to be body (physiochemical form) and jeevan needs to be believed to be jeevan (conscious being).  Jeevan and body need to be appraised based on their purposes of being.  If such an understanding is accomplished then human being can live like a human being (a unit of knowledge order).  If these are not appraised then disorder has to result.  Orderly living of human being requires jeevan to be appraised based on its purpose and body to be appraised based on its utility.  The utility of body is for evidencing jeevan’s awakening in human tradition.  Human body is not a product of human imagination.  When human body comes out as an infant, upon getting formed in a womb, it is already conscious.  Since we get a conscious child from the moment of birth, we start believing that body itself is conscious.  After sometime that infant also starts believing that way.  This is the way entire human tradition is stuck and to come out from this the parents and guardians will need to understand this reality."

- English Translation of an excerpt from "Jeevan Vidya - Ek Parichaya" by Shree A. Nagraj.