The Sacred Thread..........

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2 total messages Started by Dharmendra Khanolkar Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:45

#10

Author: Dharmendra Khanolkar
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:45

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                                   JANEYU
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 Sacred thread - There is a spiritual system in our body which has many
 important nodes at various points of the body each of which depict 
 something... At the centre of the abdomen just beneath the diaphragm (it is
 an important point even according to today's science..) is the sangam. In the
 system we are talking about, there are 3 channels of flow originating at this
 point - Sat, Raj and Tam - meaning Goodness, Material and Evil. The Tam and
 Raj flow downwards and only the Sat flows upwards. In most of us normal 
 people, the Tam and Raj are active and the Sat is not strong enough to 
 counter act the downward flow.

 The aim of meditation is to make the Sat strong enough to fight the other
 two, resulting in an upward flow spiritually and thus leading to Moksha...
 The Janeyu (sacred thread) depicts these three flows (notice that the Janeyu
 has 3 threads) to remind us of this theory. Again it is unneccessary to wear
 it as long as one remembers the significance of the idea - does not
 mean that one should not wear it but that one need not wear it as long
 as his mind wears it all the time. We can see by all these explanations
 that the sages at that time have explained mind blowing ideas by just
 inventing a material reminder and depiction for common man.
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	Now the question.

 I understood why there are three threads. but why is there a knot in the three
 threads which ties them together ? Does it mean that we have to have some Raj
 and Tam bound with Sat ? Why do we need to have the Raj and the Tam ? Is it 
 not that we are to try and keep away from these two things as much as 
 possible.... ?????


B4 u decide to flame this article, just take a note about the location of
the origin of this article ??

-- 
Bye now...

--Dhamu

Re: The Sacred Thread..........

#11

Author: Dharmendra Khanolkar
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:47

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In article <1ds2f6INN2oq@bigboote.WPI.EDU> dharam@coyote.WPI.EDU (Dharmendra Khanolkar) writes:
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>
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>                                   JANEYU
>                                  ========
>
> Sacred thread - There is a spiritual system in our body which has many
> important nodes at various points of the body each of which depict 
> something... At the centre of the abdomen just beneath the diaphragm (it is
> an important point even according to today's science..) is the sangam. In the
> system we are talking about, there are 3 channels of flow originating at this
> point - Sat, Raj and Tam - meaning Goodness, Material and Evil. The Tam and
> Raj flow downwards and only the Sat flows upwards. In most of us normal 
> people, the Tam and Raj are active and the Sat is not strong enough to 
> counter act the downward flow.
>
> The aim of meditation is to make the Sat strong enough to fight the other
> two, resulting in an upward flow spiritually and thus leading to Moksha...
> The Janeyu (sacred thread) depicts these three flows (notice that the Janeyu
> has 3 threads) to remind us of this theory. Again it is unneccessary to wear
> it as long as one remembers the significance of the idea - does not
> mean that one should not wear it but that one need not wear it as long
> as his mind wears it all the time. We can see by all these explanations
> that the sages at that time have explained mind blowing ideas by just
> inventing a material reminder and depiction for common man.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>	Now the question.
>
> I understood why there are three threads. but why is there a knot in the three
> threads which ties them together ? Does it mean that we have to have some Raj
> and Tam bound with Sat ? Why do we need to have the Raj and the Tam ? Is it 
> not that we are to try and keep away from these two things as much as 
> possible.... ?????
>

	> The materila written below was intented (sp?) only for the sci
people... ;-)


>B4 u decide to flame this article, just take a note about the location of
>the origin of this article ??
>
>-- 
>Bye now...
>
>--Dhamu


-- 
Bye now...

--Dhamu

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