Essence of Vedanta - Part 18

Dear All,

Now the author reaches the most difficult part of this blog which is explaining / expressing / writing on "What is God as described in all upanishads, in all vedanta treatise, which one has to realize".

From now on, even if one reader is going to be reading and following the remaining posts in this theme, author requests that one person for one thing, he has to give his mind totally to the author and then read and contemplate on the daily reading in absolute silence in meditation. If Mind must still remain with the reader, then that mind has to be the most static mind, pure, serene and undisturbed!! 

If this is not done, then the reader will end up reading and knowing all the remaining posts in this theme with his MIND which would mean that he can grasp almost nothing!!!!!!

We will start with the most difficult part of knowing God, with the definition of God / THAT as given in Isa upanishad, which we read in a post 2 days before.

"The Isavasya Upanishad says that the whole Universe is pervaded by Isvara or God, who is both within and without it. He is the moving and the unmoving, He is far and near, He is within all these and without all these."

Now, let us devote time in reading and then absorbing the same in early morning hours, in total silence, with pure mind, on one portion of the above expression "WITHIN"!!

Author is recapitulating the following part from a post under the theme "Creation of Universe".

"Suppose there is a big boulder, a stone. You see the stone; it is very hard and heavy, and you can touch it as a solid object. 

Bring a sufficiently powerful microscope and look at this stone. You will find that the stone is a heap of very minute, fly-like, insect-like entities called molecules. It is a heap of certain things, and not one solid object.

Bring another, more powerful microscope, more powerful than the earlier one. Even the molecules will not be seen there. There will be still finer elements looking like almost non-cognisable particles which are called atoms.

Bring a still more powerful microscope. You will find that even these little particles melt into a continuum of energy, or force, which impinges on the energy centres which are other atoms. It looks as if there is one sea of force everywhere, an indistinguishable continuum.

What has happened to the stone?

Can you say that this sea of force, these atoms, one day thought: “Let us become a stone”? 

If the atoms have really become the stone, they will not be there for you to see through the microscope. 

You will conclude that they have never become the stone. It is only your vision that presents the perception of a solid object.

These so-called ‘things’ – molecules, atoms, energy centres, etc. – never became the stone. They were never transformed into the stone. They did not create the stone. They exist and have always existed in the same condition as they were when you perceived them through a powerful perception.

The stone has not been created, though it is solidly perceivable. In the same way, the world has not been created, though it is visible to the eyes.

CONCLUSION FOR TODAY

Similar to the stone which was never created, which is actually only a continuum of energy if one reaches to its subtlest existence, we the Jivas , exist  with our body at gross level, just as the stone is also visible at a gross level, but exactly like the continuum of energy explained in the case of stone, we the jivas are also actually not the physical form that we are, but we are actually THE SPIRIT / THE SOURCE / THE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS !!!!

And, God realization is actually to realize that we are THAT PURE AWARENESS / SPIRIT which WE ALWAYS ARE, WHICH IS NEVER BORN AND HENCE, WHICH NEVER DIES!!!!

Hari Aum Tatsat.