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Avyakrit.
iii. That which resides in the Brahmanda Mandal is the Virat Purusha.
Among these the Hiranyagarbha is the causal body, the causal condition, the state of nothingness or Shoonyabhava, the condition of peace and the higher state of spiritual bliss. Antaryami or Avyakrit is the subtle body, subtleness, the condition of knowledge, intellect and discrimination, and the mental faculty, the inverted movement of the mind. Virat is the gross body, gross body-ness, the movement of action and of body, and the true state of body- ness.
The gross body of the Brahman is Virat; the causal body is Hiranyagarbha; and the subtle body is Antaryami or Avyakrit.
Virat is the body, Antaryami is the mind, and Hiranyagarbha is the soul of the Brahman. These three the Physical or Sthoola, the astral or Sookshma, and the Causal or Karana are the bodies of the heavenly God. There is a fourth condition, transcending these three, which can be expressed or indicated as non-existence, existence and super existence. This Brahman is an ocean formed out of a drop of that fourth state. It, the ocean, always undulates, supporting the structure of Maya(Mayavee Rachana) or the universe of attributes. It plays this game in itself. This triad (triple) condition of Brahman is called the Trinity. In the terminology of saints it is Trikut or Trikuti. This is the sum total of the gross, subtle and causal conditions. It has the material, the conscient, and the mingled condition of the knot of matter and consciousness, which can be termed as the body-ness, as well as the Knot of spirituality — the mixed knot of Sat, Raj and Tam. These three mingle together and are called Brahman.
What is that fourth state called? It is called Srut — attention — in the physical plane;Sabda— sound—in the higher plane; and Asabda—non sound— in the Real plane. But all these are names and names only.
Srut can be recognised as attention, steadiness, withdrawal, peace and stability. As the reflected form of the fourth condition or state is found in it, it has the characteristic of being steady and motionless. Being associated with it, this heart also is enlivened, and acts taking pride in it. And when its current is drawn or pulled upwards it becomes actionless, lazy and dead.
The word Srut is derived from Sruti which means ‘heard’. As there was no other word which could express the sense in a better way, this word was used as a measure of economy. By a common misunderstanding the hymns of the Vedas, the Vedamantra, are called Sruti. Had they called the sound of the mantras as Sruti, they would not have erred, because it is incapable of being refuted. It is a matter of experience that everything originates from sound, and