28 - Microvitum in a Nutshell

Microvitum in a Nutshell [a compilation]

Chapter 13

Smell and Microvita
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Excerpt E

Gandhabrhatii.(1) Brhatii means “[a type of] eggplant”.(2) It is said that white eggplant is static and slightly bitter.(3) According to some people, eating eggplant on the eleventh day of the solar or lunar month will cause a more severe attack of negative microvita than on other days of the month. Some of those who prepare almanacs express this opinion.(4)

Parama Puruśa attracts all living beings through His Vidyámáyá, or introversial force. He wants to snap open the bondages of the microcosms. He wants to open the iron gate to their bondages. Human beings cannot easily attract the Supreme Entity, from whom all kinds of emanations arise. Parama Puruśa, by dint of the five types of inferences, eternally calls living beings to keep the gates of their sense organs open. In this case, the inferences, whether sound, touch, form, taste or smell, are not the causes of bondages, rather they are the causes of liberation. The smell which inspires the human mind to move into the subtler realm brings the human mind into the closest contact with the Supreme Entity, the repository of all smell. Parama Puruśa is sending out this call to the living beings through all the inferences. When He sends His call through the inference of smell, He fills living beings with a vast Macrocosmic resonance. This power of Parama Puruśa is called “gandhabrhatii.”

30 October 1988, Calcutta