Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #8

welcome back to our weekly tanya class mondays 11 o'clock just in case anyone out in the internet world wants to join us in real life eleven o'clock at chabad of the five towns and we just finished chapter two before we started the recording there was some intense discussion about some some stuff from chapter two so before we jump into chapter three let's do like really rapid fire um can we tie up some loose ends about chapter two okay what what did we want to talk about from chapter two you understand no i don't want to start i'm not i don't make problems i don't have any problem i'm done with chapter two i'm satisfied i'm ready to move on until the next time i learn tanya see that's one of the things is you have to know you're going to learn tanya multiple times so whatever you didn't understand this time around you'll maybe you'll get it next time around anyone wants to talk about chapter 2 now that you're on the spot now we're recording feels different doesn't it what review okay fine so chapter two we and we introduced the second soul the second soul is the helichelikami mao and the altar adds the word mamish i say adds the word because is a turn of phrase from scripture it's from the book of job and it's generally used not just in siddhis but elsewhere in penumya satyara to describe the soul the altar adds the word mamish which means literally but also means even in a state of momotious even in the physical body it is a veritable part of god himself we gave a couple of metaphors to describe what that means we gave the metaphor of the breath that comes from deep within as opposed to speech and we give the metaphor of the father's brain which becomes his uh genetic material which is passed on and transmits his essence to his child which is present within all parts of the child from the child's brain to the child's toenails and that this is a metaphor for the jewish people which also helps us to understand why we see different levels of jews even though talking about different levels of spiritual capacities of jews even though they are all of the same exact essence and we spoke about the role of the tsadik as a way to reconnect to your own pristine source that was chapter two sounds so simple when i summarize it like that right like all the problems went away there's a fist fight almost about to break out before we started recording you wanna you wanna make any trouble or we should uh just roll we're good okay fine we'll get it next time don't worry we're gonna get all right pedago chapter three so now we're gonna zoom in a little bit on this nefish this soul the word soul is so unhelpful what's a soul whenever you say the word soul i i imagine that people imagine a little casper the ghost remember casper the ghost yeah you think of oh soul food okay why not soul power okay so brother anyways um when people think of the word soul what does that mean even it's just like this sort of this amorphous blob but in truth the soul has an anatomy which is complex and we're going to study the anatomy of the soul so let's let's jump in we're going to open up the hood and take a look at the uh what's going on inside the mechanics of the soul so pedago chapter three shalom these three levels which are the levels of the soul which we were speaking about in chapter two we said that there are different spiritual levels of jews but they all are composed of or they comprise 10 beginners qualities translate behind us as qualities 10 qualities what are these 10 qualities well they correspond to another concept we should probably be aware of as the students of kabbalah mayhem ten qualities of the soul which correspond to the ten spheroids i won't attempt to translate the word sphero from which they derive from which they derive that's probably one of the most important and oft-quoted words or phrases in tanya is probably up there with in the i would guess in the top three most cited tanya quotes in la cote circus because it's basically the paradigm for the entire concept that whatever exists in spiritual realms will re-articulate itself in the material world so in fact right here we're not even talking about the material world we didn't we didn't even get to that point right here we're talking about two levels within the spiritual hashem's spherois which we haven't yet translated the word spirit and the souls what we're calling right now is our qualities what we're about to call koikais or capacities in other words hashem relates to his world through ten call them i hate this clumsy definition but emanations ten representations ten contexts known as and in turn the soul has imprinted within it that exact same pattern or structure and has the identical capacities on its level the same exact ten qualities except when we talk about hashem they're called ten spheros that's why he calls them spherus means up there meaning talking about hashem and then when they're in the soul they're called koihei they didn't call them they called them qualities but that's that's what we call them we call them fish soul powers not like james brown's soul power soul powers capacities potentials kayak means power capacity or potential okay so far so good okay and these 10 soul capacities are divided into two general categories we could get more micro than that but two general categories shahid which are and the seven doubles the three mothers and the seven doubles this is kabbalistic talk this is from everybody knows right how can you make a golem without say foreign i can have an odd number of doubles because each one is double the three mothers and the seven doubles is safety to talk but basically he's gonna explain what that means in our uh context pirosh the explanation of that is the three mothers intellectual capacities the shivers you may opinion and the seven doubles are also called the seven days of creation so there you have the three emotional axes and everything else is a derivative thereof that's why it says etcetera but let me back up why are why the three why the three intellectual qualities of hassan of khakhma binadas called the three mothers and why the seven emotional faculties called the doubles or the days of creation i know there's a lot of expressions being thrown around right now but there a lot of them are synonymous expressions so let's i wish i had a like a blackboard ten spheroics from which i derived ten soul powers which are then in turn divided into two general categories the first general category are the cognitive functions or capacities [Music] which are namely we're going to talk a little bit about what the difference is between them in a minute those are three intellectual faculties or cognitive faculties which are also known as the mothers why are they known as the mothers as we're about to say because they give birth what does intellect give birth to emotions very important information for later in the book remember we're in the informational chapters right now we're learning anatomy we're learning gross anatomy at medical school right now you're not treating patients yet we don't know how to do that yet we're learning learning the the makeup but later on when we start getting into the practical instructional stuff it's going to be really important to know where emotions come from for instance if you want to start creating more love of god or fear of god and having less of love of things that aren't god and fear of things that aren't god well how are you going to change your emotions you got to know where emotions come from you got to know how babies are made so emotions are called the babies of the intellect yeah so in other words three mothers yeah i like it yeah now if you get more micro than that is the father bina is the mother and das is the intimate bond between the two but if you call them as a general category they're all called mothers we over generalize calling them all mothers yeah so you have that first category the second category are the seven emotions and they're called the doubles why are they called doubles because they exist in two states hysterical emotions and mindful emotions so depending we all know that emotions are born from intellect we just said that but depending on whether or not those emotions are guided by intellect or the or if the children are now running the house the emotions can either be in a state of khazak or rafi strong or weak strong is hysterical and uh i should actually we should stop using the word hysterical because it's actually a a misogynistic term you know that we should stop using it yeah hysterical means of the uterus because it was thought that that women can't control their emotions and hysteria yeah they would give hysterectomies to control that yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's actually a sexist term we shouldn't use it um so i'm gonna stop i'm gonna endeavor to stop using that word it's for myself it's not for you and i'm trying to be not trying to be polite i think it's a incorrect word and it's not a helpful word um so let's call it [Music] it's more than that yeah but it's more than that dramatic yeah like uh out of control yeah i i mean i mean i wish they were more elegant word but out of control yeah when the emotions are out of control when they're running away with themselves so they're no longer guided by the intellect and that's called khazak and then when they remain tempered by the intellect then they're called rafi so that's why they're called doubles also um they're called the seven days of creation because think about emotions emotions are a bridge between you and the other you can sit and intellectualize by yourself in fact people who are very introverted or even to a introverted to an extreme state what are they doing is essentially living in their own mind emotions by definition though are a relationship so like intellect is insular and um emotions are bridges to the other that's what emotions are they they compel you to relate to something outside of yourself yeah sorry just tell us again you said it was hysterical and so emotions are always bridges emotions are always about connecting to something outside of yourself and when we're talking about them existing in two states so how are you relating to that which is outside of yourself in a mindful way or in a overly dramatic way but all emotions are about relating to that which is outside of yourself that's why we call them the seven days of building because when hashem is relating to his creation he's expressing his emotions and on the seven days of creation different emotional attributes were emphasized on each day so for instance on the first day of creation light was created and that was a manifestation of divine concept of kindness and then the second day god created the firmament the separation between the waters separation is a function of gura of divine restraint and on the third day the dry land was separated from the water that's tifaris which is balance or harmonization and so on and so forth until you get to malchus which is shabbos which is tranquility so we at any rate just i don't want to lose the threat we have 10 spheroids which are ten ways hashem the ten ways that the infinite relates to the finite those ten qualities are then re-articulated in the soul as 10 soul powers those 10 soul powers are further subdivided into two general categories the first category are the cognitive functions how many of them are there three namely has ah which are called as a group the mothers and then you have well if there's three in the first category how many how many are in the second category seven which are known as the doubles or as the days of creation emotions which are the emotions very good okay so let's continue here so in the person you have the same divisions and we refer to them as seijo the intellect and middle east the emotions now let's get particular hasselhoff the intellectual capacities are known as we translate them as the official translations are wisdom understanding and knowledge don't do that do yourself a favor don't write down those translations are not helpful they're not helpful okay we're gonna we're gonna talk about their functions and it's much better not to try to translate them word for word in english the hamidah is hain and then what are the seven emotions avas hashem love of god and the dread and awe of god those are not negative things by the way and to glorify him basically hasid guru antivirus right there so let's talk about the intellectual capacities are and the source of the emotions because emotions are the children of chabad we mentioned that earlier so you have the mothers which are the intellectual faculties which give birth to the emotions which are the children ubira in an explanation of the matter when the souls intellect is intellectualizing that first stage is called which can be broken down the word can be broken down into the two words the power of what what means the x factor the unknown the potential in other words innovation invention creative thinking that seemingly comes from nowhere because if the initial phase there's anything anything before is off the charts say thomas edison the way he'd come up with new ideas is he would doze off in a rocking chair while holding ball bearings with a steel bed pen next to him and when he would start to fall asleep his hand would loosen and the ball bearings would fall and they would hit the steel bedpan and they would make a clang and startle him from his his uh dremel from his little half dream state and when he would jolt to consciousness he would sometimes have brand new ideas right so where do these ideas come from i don't know they just come to me just hashem put it in my head so the initial phase anything before is like pre-cognitive it's a supraconsciousness it's not something that would we would call intellectual anymore it's just too rarified to even be be referred to as intellect so the first phase of intellect that we are conscious of is called and that's where the idea hits you like sometimes it's called baraka mavic it hits you like a lightning flash now the thing is hits you like a lightning flash and if you don't hold on to it you'll lose it very quickly oh what was i going to say what was i going to say what was that oh if it's important you'll remember later not true sometimes it's important and you don't remember later sorry to keep you up at night but if doesn't meet bina it will be lost beena what we're about to explain is elaborative thought so is the initial flash of the idea boom brand new idea but bina is elaborative thought let's uh let's take a look here when the potential is actualized meaning when the abstract new idea becomes articulated internally i'm speaking about when you meditate on the idea to understand it properly and its depth when you're trying to understand one thing from another or what we call extrapolation when you take you know there are two kinds of people in the world those who can extrapolate from incomplete data it was one of my best jokes it works it works there are two kinds of people in the world those who can extrapolate from incomplete data get it those who can't so bina is extrapolating taking one piece of information that you learned and allowing that to lead you to a new insight that's not really a new insight because it was really latent within the previous insight but it needed to be articulated so yeah let's back up when he brings out the potential into actualization when he's trying to understand the thing to its fullness and its depth he's trying to pull out one idea from the previous idea nick robino that's called bina and now the next statement's not going to surprise you because i just described the relationship between bina as this tiny little germ of thought that's easily lost that's kokuma and beena as the elaborative forum within which that tiny little german gets developed and articulated into something complete that won't be lost so it won't shock you if i tell you now hey these two are called of the aim father and mother they're called father and mother he's like the tiny little genetic code that the father contributes and she's like the womb in which that is turned into a whole baby right now don't don't forget so since we're talking about the nephew shalakis what is it what ideas is it processing ideas about hashem ideas about hashem because that's all it understands and that's all it cares about so it's processing ideas about hashem and then when it processes those ideas about hashem it leads to emotions about hashem namely love of hashem and all hashem and dread so what we've described here as far as the inner mechanics or inner workings of the godly soul now what are the inner mechanics inner workings of the animal soul you'll find out in chapter six right now we're continuing from chapter two where we introduce the godly soul so we're talking about the inner workings of the of the godly soul so we're saying it has ten bikinis qualities called coiches capacities which are manifestations of the tents virus hashem supernal emanations they are broken down into two categories three and seven the cognitive and the emotional and the relationship between the cognitive and emotional is that of parents and children and specifically within the parents you have a father and you have a mother the father is kokhma which introduces the initial inspiration bina is the meditative or contemplative or elaborative thought which fleshes out the initial inspiration into a more developed train of thought and then between the two they give birth to emotion okay so far so good and all three are the mothers collectively we refer to them all as mothers but more specifically is the father and bina is the mother that is such a good did i ever hear this i tried to pull fast one on you and ignore das because the out that ever talks about at the end of the chapter and you were like what what did he say das he didn't say das and you're right i didn't say das i said is the father i said bina is the mother i didn't say what das was it's at the end of the chapter let's see if we can get there okay good very good question okay when the soul when the thinking soul meditates on the greatness of god what's going to what's it going to think about the greatness of god well for instance how he fills all worlds these are standard concepts to think about when you think about the greatness of god how he fills all worlds meaning he permeates all existence this saved calallen and he transcends all existence simultaneously he's both imminent and transcendent he's in everything and yet cannot be contained by it and he is beyond everything the coulee comic collective and everything before him is as insignificant because he is infinite and everything before him is incomparable so when you start thinking about these things you start processing this information what's going to happen when you have a mommy and you have a daddy and they get together what's going to happen is so what happens literally uses the word nilda it's born it is born and aroused a an emotion of awe of the greatness of god in his mind and in his thought to be in awe of and to be ashamed before i know the word shame can have negative connotations here it is appropriate shame not inappropriate shame we could have a whole class talking about the difference between healthy shame and toxic shame but suffice it to say in chapter 27 we will talk all about toxic shame and how to get rid of it but right now we're talking about healthy shame appropriate shame he will feel the dread of god in his heart again that's not a negative thing i know sometimes we get triggered by words like that but what do you want to be in dread of people places and things or the one who's actually in charge of it all so don't worry we love hashem too it's a it's a full palette of emotions at any rate he's describing the mechanics of the godly soul running a concept through and coming out with emotional children namely the awe of god and the love of god but we're we're mid-process right now he only described the all part of it he only described the all vector versus and then he's telling like a little story a little narrative about a person meditating vashov yes and then his soul will ignite with powerful love for god like a glowing coal behind with yearning and pining and longing and a longing soul the doula saints of barack for the greatness of the infinite god the he clay sanafish that's called expiration of the soul for the gum calls my soul yearned for you receiving it says my soul thirsts for god it says my soul thirsts for you that's in my in this thirst whom you say that is from the element of fire in the galilee remember at the end of chapter one we spoke about the four elements in the animal soul okay now we're talking about the four elements in the godly soul or at least one of them the element of fire in the godly soul like the tv you know the tv are no idea naturalists they're like scientists of that day yeah tava malaysian tava tv and lush and tava yeah uh scientists philosophers the kane huber eights hayim and it's also in its caim so if you want to take a philosophical source we've got a philosophical source if you want a kabbalistic source the eighth scheme is the kabbalistic soy source shia said who believe that the foundation of fire is in the heart um and the source of the elemental water is in the brain in other words the coolness is in the brain the passion is in the heart of its like it says that the elemental water in the brain is also called which is the water of the godly soul at any rate we're describing a process whereby the godly soul is processing godly information intellectually and then coming to an emotional conclusion of awe and love of god now he only gave us illustrations of awe and love so he says who showed me this kulan all the other middays hain are branches of awe and love and their derivatives commission like it's written elsewhere in other words we only told you remember like before when we said ferris etc and i told you is because once you have the basic structure set up the right the left and the center so then everything else you can fit into that into that structure so he gave examples of of all of god and and and love of god and then everything else sort of fits into that structure um and that is how it works now dash das we didn't really address das so let's do that sort of skipped it over so the hadas what's das he didn't tell me what das is because he told me there are three intellectual faculties and you told me that is the father and you told me that bina is the mother what's this third intellectual faculty this is funny that is funny um you know in chabad we always use the arizona's configuration of the spheroids but a lot of other kabbalah has a different set up where das is not even one of the spheroids they have casser instead and so they don't have das das is a funny sphere a funny sphere and a funny fish das is more of a relationship between two entities than an entity unto itself so is an entity unto itself beena is an entity unto itself das is like the relationship between those two entities and in in the metaphorical sense we would we would even refer to it as if we're using the metaphor of biological reproduction of a father and a mother then then das would be the intimate relationship between the father and the mother let's let's look inside no the emotions of the offspring das is one of the parents das is one of the three we said there are three parents no no it's not the offspring the emotions of the offspring das is up there with the the three emotes the three mothers the three intellectual faculties so i know in particular is the father bean is the mother what's das it's not a third parent das is the relationship or the intimate relationship between the two parents that enables them to have children what's its purpose so that the parents have children you can have parents but they don't have children they're potentially parents but they don't have children and he's going to describe that you can have somebody with fully functional meaning he knows a lot of cool stuff about god and he can even explain it to himself really well and he doesn't have love or awe it didn't come to an emotional takeaway yet and the only thing that's missing is das which is going to explain this hey let's look inside okay rather than guessing what it's going to say you know the first time we see that word in the bible and adam knew eve it doesn't mean he could pick her out of a lineup i'm sure he could have picked her out of a lineup because she was the only woman in the world yes officer that woman that's the one i saw he knew her means he knew her biblically people don't even know what that expression means anymore he knew her in the biblical sense that's where that expression comes from adam new eve means it says adam knew eve and had children he knew her meaning he was intimate with her the lush in his castle das means connection and bonding now in the sense of of intellect what does that mean it means that he affixes his his mind with a powerful and strong connection to the subject matter the yikka makshafter he affixes his thought strongly big saints of barack to the subject of the greatness of the infinite and he doesn't avert his attention so if innovative thought and beena is elaborative thought das means focus focus focus focus focus it's always what i demand from students that's why i go crazy when people go you know start giggling about the lights like focus if we're learning properly nothing should distract us focus focus focus focus and especially today in our day and age when we have tiny attention spans and we just want to you know click another link every five seconds we want to click another link our appetite for stimulus just look okay move on okay i got the point right and and you can't rush the process you can't rush the process you need focus we're talking about bina are the mother and the father the father and the mother respectively they're trying to create babies here okay there needs to be attention and focus and completely blocking out any distractions otherwise you can engage in all types of pontificating all types of intellectual uh exploration but without that deep attention and focus it's not going to yield an emotional takeaway so the class was very interesting and very stimulating but it didn't change me in here what was what was lacking what was lacking you had it you had a tattoo you had a mommy they're not infertile but they weren't intimate they weren't intimate why because there wasn't that focus so watch what he says here it's very startling big duelist aids of baruch even someone who is a big he has a lot of kahma a lot of that faculty of innovation and he's unknown he's got a lot of bina he knows how to elaborate on it and explain it well so he's very very knowledgeable about godly stuff if he doesn't focus and affix his thoughts powerfully and constantly asmada means from the word tummied constantly constantly even though he has lots of khakhanbina he's a real scholar he's a real scholar but he he didn't focus in an attentive way lori he will not give birth to give birth is the operative word real awe and love of god but rather vain fancies i don't know how to translate that vain fancy i think that's like the lessons in tanya translation but what it means is he may think he's feeling something but he's not feeling anything he may think he got excited for a moment but he didn't because there's no way that can create real emotional children if you don't have dos which is focus and devotion and care and connection to the idea the alkane therefore hadas das is also referred to as the upkeep of the middays and their vitality in other words if you want to maintain emotions about hashem you need that ingredient you need to have the das which means love in its offshoots vegito and all in its offshoots das has two channels in fact as two channels both directions because das is very interesting das connects i mean reverse i'll i'll reverse it for you guys i'm doing it in front of me but i'll flip it and do it okay you have and being on the right and being on the left so das is the funnel soda so to speak where the can go in and the beena can go in and das holds them together das is the intimate relationship between the and then furthermore das splits off into two channels as we continue down the line and das turns the and the beena into emotions which are cassette over here and and and over here sometimes refer to it as das ali and das tactine the higher dos and the lower das the higher dos is the connection between hakamabina and then the the lower das is the das which gives birth to the the emotions another way you might describe it is it's not an emotion but it's where intellect becomes more than academic and starts to lead into emotion maybe call it an opinion right it's not a feeling but it's already picking a direction when you when you have an opinion that means you've taken a side now it may still just be intellectual it's not yet that passionate but you're picking a side and that's what das does and that's why it says das has two channels because it's going to direct the ideas toward emotional targets now ideally we want to actually have both because we want to have both the ah and the love but the point is that the das is taking the ideas and orienting them toward emotional outcomes yeah is it the lower dose that does it split yeah i always thought the third leg or the tripod between a husband and wife is hashem so you're telling us now that there is other funnels and that's a different way of looking you're talking about different models right well there are more than one model so it's a different model don't don't get yourself confused by trying to fit that in with another model that you're thinking of so where does hashem come into tonya it's all hashem right so that's where i'm totally confused where does hashem come in the whole time we've been talking about hashem right no but right don't tell me right let me ask you a question what i said before though when i said before that this godly soul is having been a about an idea what idea was it having clocked mabino about do you remember transcendence oh now you're showing off you're paying attention yeah that's okay very good although you've you reversed it it was imminent and then transcended i got the ideas what were we thinking about we weren't thinking about the the new tesla it said that the idea that we were harmonizing and been arising was the greatness of the infinite god namely that he is imminent and transcendent and that everything in front of him is as naught so the whole thing here is about hashem it's a given what's a given no no it's not a given we're not taking it as a given we're thinking about it it's a prerequisite it's where all your thoughts are directed when you're contemplating hashem right remember let me let me just stop you a second remember context this is chapter three we're only talking with the nephilis right now the nephew look is the godly soul what is all of its cognition and all of its emotion oriented toward only hashem only hashem and that's why it says very clearly when it is intellectually processing through khachmanvina it says exactly what it's thinking about it's thinking about the greatness of god how he is imminent and transcendent and infinite the whole thing is is is thinking about hashem a magnet um a bridge a connector it's it's a connection it holds them it holds them together yeah yeah all right we're a little bit over time anything else once it's connected see it see das holds things together it holds khacham and bina together and then it holds both of them together with the emotions and the two channels to two channels here right and left right and left correct yeah anything else on hashem it gives birth to a holy day which so it's the same idea but just a different model it was a constant work right because like constantly yeah he said how small that means constant yeah [Music] exactly that's precisely what he's saying correct correct this is that's exactly what that's why he says ha the hasmati means constant it's not enough that you understood a concept once oh i one time i went to a class and i understood the concept that's enough that you have understanding of it that if somebody comes up to you on the street and says explain a concept to me you're able to recall it and explain it it's not enough to have an emotion to have an emotion you have to be engaged in it actively constantly yeah yeah are not overlays upon the soul that is the makeup of the soul yes yes yes all of these yes that's also part of the makeup of the godly soul yeah because they're not using it they're not using okay excellent everyone has dots every no they of course they have das their nephew what we're saying is that he's not using his dos because his animal soul is taking over okay well yeah that could be the reason right yeah that could be the the the reason but at this point he's not even explaining why it happened just making a statement of fact he's not using it yeah focus focus focus we can focus on intellectualizing but how do you make it a religion that's what we're saying stop trying to force the emotion if you focus on the idea if you really allow yourself to spend time with the idea and stop rushing it well in this case which idea the idea of god because we're talking about the godly soul the only idea it cares about like we're discussing before the only idea that the godly soul cares about is god just like cognitive overload yes yes it is well the way she's asking the question why isn't das just more of the same just more intellectualizing and and that's what he's trying to bring out or is bringing out we're trying to understand it's not just more intellectualizing it is das is when we're already driving at something are okay with being intellectually detached being academic it's an interesting concept i i could talk to you about the idea doesn't mean that it's moved me in any deep way bertrand russell was a professor of ethics in the philosophy department at oxford and he he caused a scandal and he was brought up in front of the ethics review board they said how can we have somebody teaching ethics in the philosophy department who's unethical and he said that when i taught in cambridge i taught geometry they didn't ask me if i'm a triangle so you could have a lot of chochman bina about godly subjects you could be a professor of pacific studies and not have the emotions so so das is not just more of the same which i i like the way you phrased it goddess is not just more of the same das is the reason it's called intimacy is because it's not just more of the same das is take it personally when i say focus i don't only mean to to shut out distractions what i mean is you know it's like oh what just give me give me a second here i see people are getting antsy and we are over time but but listen you cannot i'm sorry for the metaphor here but if you have a husband and a wife you cannot have an intimate evening together when one person is looking at his or her phone that's it it's over it's not intimate you're looking at your phone it's not intimate so what do they do i just i just looked at my phone for a second so when we're talking about focus we don't just we don't only mean you know keep your mind on the subject we're talking about the attachment that i'm taking it personally now that this is important this isn't just interesting it's important so i could process these ideas and understand them well enough to to teach them to explain them but it doesn't mean that i've taken it personally it doesn't mean that i've allowed myself to connect to it intimately so when we talk about that what we're really talking about is it's not a class anymore it's not just a subject it's not just interesting information i'm i'm attached to this i take it personally i have a strong opinion about this this this is real this is me this is my life and now we're already getting you see we're already getting into the world of emotion so it is it is much different than just more of the same intellectualizing it's a it's it's different than the other two intellectual faculties because it's driven toward making it personal making it another way to call it is making it real das means that if you focused on an abstract concept enough that your experience of that thought process is so intense that it's as if you've lived it one way i might translate das is to make academic or or abstract information so real to you that it becomes experiential knowledge i would call das experiential knowledge like there could be a guy but that sort of no you know you don't have to do a physical action no what we're saying is you can learn something with such devotion with such intimate connection that the study of it has now become a living experience that's what das means feel tell um if i'm wrong but it feels like the chemistry that exists between and bina it's a living breathing organism it's a relationship i might use the word dynamic right which was what he implies with the word mother constancy it it's an active relationship well oh assimilation or assimilating the concept yeah yeah but you could even assimilate on a purely cognitive level yeah yeah you could but this is deep assimilation okay we're all good okay let's let's let's stop here okay okay okay