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In the fourth stage of its development with each Tanmatra, gth Tanmatra of all other Elements combine and constitute one unit of the gross element. Thus, in the above chart, one half of Ether is joined with four fth-bits borrowed from all the other three Elernents (half Ether plus fth '2' plus žth '3' plus įth '4' plus įth '5') together becoming one unit of the gross Akasha. Similarly, half of Air plus fth-bit borrowed from Ether, Fire, Water and Earth, becomes one unit of gross Air. Thus, in every one, until we reach the Earth; in the composition of Earth, we find in each unit there is half a Tanmatra of Earth and Ith of the Tanmatras of Ether, Air, Fire and Water.
This process is called Pancikarana, the pentamerous "self-division and combination process. This idea is indicated in the stanza under review. Out of these gross Elements the physical body is formed. But the sense-objects,meaning, sound, touch, form, taste and smell--are constituted of nothing other than the subtle Tanmātras of the rudimentary Elements. The gross Elements provide the instrument to enjoy the subtle Elements through. All these arrangements are made so that the ego-centre may experience a life of happiness and miseries as he planned in his ignorance in a world of plurality.
The enjoyer is the Self conditioned by the mind and intellect. The ego (or the jiva) is the enjoyer and sufferer which is none but the Self-conditioned by the thought-flow in each one of us. This conditioning can never bring about any real bondage to the Self just as any harm done to my reflections in a mirror can never harm me, the object of whose reflections is in the mirror.
य एषु मूढा विषयेषु बद्धा
रागोरुपाशन सुदुर्दमेन । आयान्ति निर्यान्त्यध ऊर्ध्वमुच्चैः
स्वकर्मदृतेन जवेन नीताः ॥७५॥
