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नामस्थापनाद्रव्यभावतस्तन्नयासः ॥ ५ ॥ Nama sthapana dravya bhavatas tannyasah (5) We experience reality (consciousness, matter, time, etc.) on four different planes: - on the plane of articulation - where we use names and terms for the purpose of communication and social mechanisms (nama) - on the plane of mental structure - where we form
our individual reality (sthapana) - on the plane of all potentially possible features of the elements - this constitutes the basis for the identical perception of reality by different people (dravya) and - on the plane of present manifestation - where individual features of the elements (or a combination of them) manifest in the actual present (bhava). (5)
We tend to regard reality as one holistic experience. Though we usually assign our themes of life to certain brackets - work, home, leisure, study, vacation etc. - we nevertheless regard these as different parts of one fundamental whole that always functions in the same way, no matter what particular activity we are engaged in.
Yet there exist four different planes on which we experience reality. These four planes function in distinctly different ways. As long as we are unaware of their characteristics, we tend to confuse them. So if we want to terminate unwanted themes of life, access more fascinating dimen
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