Chit-Jada-Granthi

Chit-Jada-Granthi (Sanskrit: granthi m.) der Knoten im Herz-Chakra: Die Verbindung zwischen reinem Bewusstsein und dem Körperbewusstsein, dem Ego.

The scriptures reveal that any creation starts only after formation of the so called 'Chit-Jada Granthi'. Chit-Jada Granthi means a knot which has been tied together by the ropes of Chit (consciousness) and Jada (inert things). Consciousness and Inertness somehow come together, and only after this unique marriage between these two things of diametrically opposite natures that the process of creation begins. The implication is clear, if we want to break the cycle, then it is this knot alone which needs to be untied.

Reference to such a 'knot' comes in various places, and in every place the same fact is reiterated, that it is only after this strange & even unholy knot that the process of creation begins. In the 13th chapter of Gita, this fact has been reiterated twice, once in the 14th chapter, and also in the Introduction of his Brahma Sutra commentary Sri Adi Sankaracharya reveals this fact very logically & beautifully. Lord Krishna says that 'anything that has been created here has only been created after the identification of Kshetra and Kshetragna'. 'Only after the Purusha identifies with the Prakriti that the process of birth & death begins'. 'I impregnate my Shakti called Mahat Brahma and thereafter the process of creation begins' (Ch 14). We also know with our experiences that it is only when the consciousness blesses the body-mind-intellect complex that we can live our day to day life and extricate our various experiences here.

Even though from the creation's point of view the association of Chit and Jada is a basic pre-requisite for the process of creation to begin, but from the point of view of the truth it is an impossibility, and it is only after this realization that the so called 'severing' of this knot is possible. To say that Chit & Jada have got combined is as good as saying that light and darkness have shaken hands. This is basically a ridiculous statement, light and darkness can never co-exist, they can never shake hands, purusha can never identify with the prakriti, consciousness can not even touch shakti, far from impregnating it. From the point of view of light there is nothing called darkness. Wherever the light turns, it can never see any thing called darkness, so there is no question of any physical association with it. Yet the fact is that some kind of association has taken place.

Sri Sankara in his commentary of Brahma Sutras says that this unique kind of relationship can be possible only from one point of view and that is, by Adhyasa. Adhyasa is that unique association wherein the association is imaginary, rather than there being any physical factual association. When something is projected on consciousness, then even those projections get enlivened. We can imagine ourselves to be limited by the dharma of body-mind etc, we can imagine the inert things to be real & lasting, we can presume the objects of the world to be capable of giving us fulfillment etc. Such imaginations & projections are possible, and when we give 'importance' to something then we have associated factuality with the thing.

Realization of this kind of unique relationship is as good as being free from this knot, we see the fact that this association is baseless & impossible. In fact even when it appears to be there basically we are free from it. It is this knowledge of the Chit as Chit and Jada as Jada that is at the root of the severing of the Chit-Jada Granthi. When the very 'cause' of the creation is seen as imaginary, the subsequent creation too is easily realized as just a dream.