The Embodied Perceiver (Sakala)
The everyday self — embodied and finite, taking a world of separate things as plain reality.
The sakala is the everyday perceiver — the embodied self of ordinary waking life. Bound up with body and mind and ranged among the lower tattvas down to earth, this subject takes the world of separate objects as plain fact and feels itself one finite individual among many. It is the most contracted of the seven grades and the ordinary starting point of the spiritual path.
How it traveled
- TantrasāraŚrīnagara (Srinagar), Kashmir · 1000explains
Key passages(11)
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)
Sakalya said: 'Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is seed, whose sight is the heart, whose mind is light,--the principle of every self, he indeed is a teacher, O Yagnavalkya.' Yagnavalkya repl
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For he it is who sees, hears, smells, tastes, perceives, conceives, acts, he whose essence is knowledge, the person, and he dwells in the highest, indestructible Self,—
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)