when the eyes are extroverted the jīva experiences the world as if it were outside in the infinite consciousness. The aggregate of the senses of hearing, touch (skin), sight (eyes), smell (nose), taste (tongue) and desire is known as the jīva, which is of the nature of pure consciousness endowed with life-force. This jīva exists, therefore, in everything everywhere as everything, and hence he experiences everything everywhere.
When the jīva (the ‘ojas’ or the vital essence) is filled with ‘phlegm’ (śleṣma or kapha, one of the three humours that constitute the vital essence of the body), he sees its effects there and then. He ‘sees’ himself rising from the ocean of milk; he sees the moon floating in the sky; he sees lakes and lotuses, gardens and flowers, rejoicing and festivals in which women sing and dance, feasts with a lot of food and drink, rivers flowing into the ocean, huge palaces painted white, fields covered with fresh snow, parks with deer resting in them, and mountain ranges.
When the jīva is filled with ‘bile’ (pitta, which is another humour) he experiences its effects there and then. He ‘sees’ flames which are beautiful, which produce sweating of the nerves and which throw up black smoke that darkens the sky, suns which are dazzling in their brilliance and scorching in their heat, oceans and mist rising from them, impassable forests, mirages with swans swimming in them; he sees himself running along the road in fear and covered with hot dust, he sees the earth scorched dry and hot. Wherever the eyes see, they see everything on fire, even the clouds rain fire, and because of this pervasive fire everything looks brilliant.
When the jīva is filled with ‘wind’ (vāta, which is another humour) he experiences the following effects. He sees the world as if it is new, he sees himself and even rocks and mountains flying; everything revolving and rotating, flying angels and celestials, and the earth and all that is in it quakes. He sees himself as having fallen into a blind well or a dreadful calamity, or as standing perilously on top of a tree of great height or a mountain peak.