Dear All,
In the previous post, we went
through the nature of Brahman as changeless, motionless, mindless and hence we
left with the question,
“How in
that state, consciousness can illumine intellect?”
Now, for the revelation on this
illumination.
Purpose of
God creating Human
This blog started with this theme, “Purpose
of Human Birth”.
From that blog posts onwards and
till now, and till the time this blog posts would be there, it is being repeated
again and again that “The God created Human being as His own image, with His
own perfection, with His own purity, to witness His own Images of perfection
and then, He waits for the Human being to retrace his origin and to reach back
to the Lord, to merge in the Lord, to realize the Lord.
Now, let us
visualise
Now, imagine, for better clarity,
the birth of the first ever human being in this creation.
And, imagine the body of that first
ever human being lying on ground as a Jada, as a non living object.
If ever that body is existing as
JADA, non-living, insentient, then, how will the God’s purpose of creating
human shall be fulfilled?
So, for purpose of God to be
fulfilled, that JADA body has to be conscious, it has to be aware, otherwise,
how will that human being in insentient state undertake sadhana to evolve and
reach God?
Intellect is
the subtlest, purest faculty to absorb and get conscious
Out of all faculties in a human
being, Intellect is the subtlest of all, though in the visualization as
mentioned above, the intellect is also JADA.
Since the first step in Spiritual
sadhana is VIVEKA or DISCRIMINATION and Discrimination arises only in
intellect, it is INTELLECT, as though, is the most deserved faculty to be
graced with CONSCIOUSNESS in the first instance.
Intellect
absorbs Pure Consciousness
Imagine sunlight (present always,
everywhere), appearing as moonlight at night though moon does not illumine at
all and it has no quality of illumination in itself. Still, for the benefit of
creation and all beings, living and non living that exist in the creation, it
has just happened that the moon (with no quality of luminosity) still reflects
sunlight.
Similarly, pure consciousness being
existent everywhere, the intellect just absorbs Pure Consciousness and it becomes
a medium for reflecting the same to antahkarana subsequently.
Though sunshine illumines all,
still, only in most transparent object, sun itself, as though, appears - e.g. -
in a pot containing clear water, on the dew- drop settled on a flower etc.
Similarly, consciousness itself, is
absorbed by intellect on itself, as intellect is most purest, most subtlest equipment
in the first human being.
This absorption of pure
consciousness by intellect is the first reflected consciousness, taught in Vedanta.
There are subsequent process by
which this reflected consciousness goes on to make the body, mind also
conscious, which is not being taken in detail here.
Love.
