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form considered as the beautiful*. This physical structure consists of the various parts and limbs enumerated in the same stanza.
In the following stanzaf we are told how this body, the harem of all our Ego-centric assertions and misunderstandings, is the very seat of our vanities and possessiveness. All our I-ness and my-ness function from their headquarters, the physical body. This seat of all painful activities and egoprompted criminalities against our own Divine Nature-constituted of the above mentioned ingredients, fashioned out with the enumerated limbs and portions—is described by the great Rishis of old as the gross body.
The five great elements are described here, and they are first created in their subtle form, and then through a process of combinations among themselves they become the gross elements which we are able to perceive without senseorgans in our worldly life. This process by which the subtle elements become the perceivable gross elements will be described in the following stanza. परस्परांशैर्मिलितानि भूत्वा
स्थूलानि च स्थूलशारीरहेतवः । मात्रास्तदीया विषया भवन्ति
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sthalāni ca sthalaśarīrahetavah mātrāstadiyā vişayā bhavanti
sabdādayah panca sukhāya bhoktuh 74.
परस्परांशैः . With parts of one another, मिलितानि - united, भूत्वा - having become, स्थूलानि च - gross forms, स्थूलशरीरहेतव : - the cause of gross body, मात्राः - subtle essence, तदीयाः . of them, विषयाः - senseobjects, भवन्ति - become, शब्दादयः . sound etc., पच्च - five in number gajt - for the happiness, H#T: - of the experiencer.
* It has been declared by the greatest artists in the world, time without
number, that the 'male human form outwits in beauty to everything else under the Sun. + Sloka 73
