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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)
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 3,9.17↗explains
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 463↗applies
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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