Sri Annamalai Swami
Q: What is it that brings maturity and growth in a person? How do the gunas change in such a way that the mind eventually becomes sattvik?
AS: Self has no birth, no death, no sufferings and no problems. It is the witness of all these phenomena, but it is untouched by them. All these experiences happen to the mind, and through numerous lives the mind lives, learns and matures. It takes a body and learns some lessons in the body. Then it takes another form, another body and learns something else. The mind goes on like this for innumerable life times until it has finally learned to go back to its source, the Self.
Q: Do the five sheaths, the koshas, mature in this process? Do some of them mature, or do all of them?
AS: Mind inlcudes all the five koshas. Through many lifetimes one can say that the koshas are maturing and growing, but realization ultimately has nothing to do with the mature mind or mature koshas. It is the state in which one transcends the koshas and the mind. It is the state in which one finally understands that the mind, whether mature or immature, never really existed.
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