Creation of the Universe - Part 22

Dear All,

Let us visualize a strange situation in the context of the Pure canvas – Starched canvas - Outline of drawings- Inking of drawings and completed drawings appearing on the canvas or a motion show running on the movie screen.

We are seated away from the screen in both cases and we see drawings/ human beings of so many different dimensions - some short, some tall, some thin, some fat, some beautiful, some ordinary, some ugly, etc.

Suppose, imagine, a miracle happens and we, at that instant, travel and sit on the canvas ourselves.

What will happen?

Seated on the canvas, how will we be able to see the other varied objects on the canvas? It is impossible because there is no space / no distance between us and the other drawings and the eyes cannot see itself, the eyes can only see things to our right / to our left/ in front of us/ above us / below us. It cannot see ourselves, it cannot see anything which exist as ourselves on the screen, with no space between us and the other drawings.

Correct?

This imagination takes us directly to the highest philosophy, highest truth which is pregnant in all the 100+ Upanishads.

What is the highest truth which follows the above imagination?

·        The pure canvass is Brahman which is referred as Purusha    inPanchadasi and Purushottama in B.Gita.

·                All the fallacies, all the issues, all the karmas are faced by us only because WE EXIST AWAY, AS A SEPARATE IDENTITY, AS MR. SO AND SO, FROM THE PURE CANVASS, FROM  BRAHMAN, FROM GOD.

·                  Existing away from God (avidya and asmita) as explained in MBCA, we are seeing/ perceiving all drawings, the varied creations, good people, bad people, beautiful people, ugly people, good things , bad things etc. and are disturbed seeing this variety.

·           As per our ego (attachment/ hatred), we deal with different human beings, different things perceived by us, standing away from God.

·                   GO, MERGE, SIT ON THE SCREEN YOURSELF!!

(Go towards God through spiritual sadhana, merge in  God in the climax of your sadhana and exist as God yourself)

·                   If you have merged with the screen/ God, then how will you see other things/ diversities in the canvass/ world?

Now, for the ONLY truth which  follows from the above, which is the theme/ essence of vedantha.

·   The pure canvass is the universal consciousness/ absolute consciousness which is referred to as Purusha or Brahman or Paramatman in vedantha

·    You, the one who have occupied a portion of the canvass is referred to as JIVA

·     The portion of the pure canvass which has been occupied by you in the individual consciousness or Atman or Jivatma

·   When, in sadhana undertaken with intense craving for God realization (Mumukshatva in vadantha), a day or THE DAY arrives when you have totally discarded  your identity with your body, mind , intellect, ego then what happens?

·         The discarding of your identity is to be understood as erasing your identity which is sitting on the pure canvass, occupying a portion of the pure canvass.

·   What happens when your physical identity seated on the canvass is erased?

·         Is it not that the portion of the pure canvass on which you had super imposed your physical identity, GOT FREE??

·         This erasing of your identity  is FREEDOM OR MOKSHA

·     The arrested portion of the pure canvass on which you has    super imposed yourself, getting free now, is ATMAN or JIVATMAN

·    With the portion on which you had  been existing on the canvass getting free, it has now regained its original free existence and post erasing, there is no difference between that portion and the other area of the pure canvass. 

·  This non difference explained above is MERGER OF JIVATMAN WITH PARAMATMAN, Merger of Atman with Brahman, Merger of your individual consciousness with absolute, universal consciousness.

Dear All,

Please do not live with any doubt on today’s learning because today’s learning is the essence of vedantha and this is the starting point for more vedantha posts to come in future. So your foundation has to be strong for the edifice (of vedantha learning) to be strong in future. Is it not?

Let us now summarize the various theories as per our learning of sankhya / panchadasi/ Bhagwad Gita as we reach to the end of this mega theme “creation of universe”

  

	SANKHYA	BHAGWAD GITA/ VEDANTHA	PANCHADASI
Primal cause, beyond Manifest and un-manifest	Not explained	Purushottama/ Prabrahman	Pure canvass/ Purusha
Un-manifest cause	Purusha	Purusha and prakriti	Stiffening of canvass- Iswara
Manifest cause	Prakriti and Mahat	Hiranyagarbha	Outline of Drawing-Hiranya garbha
Manifest creation	Ahankara and all Subsequent tatwa	Same as Sankhya	Inked Drawings- Objects created in the universe

In the next and perhaps the end of the creation theme, we will address to a question which we had kept flagged in an earlier post.

IF GOD/ THAT EXISTED ALONE WITH NOTHING OTHER THAN THAT, WITH NO MIND, NO THOUGHT, THEN HOW THAT CAN WILL TO CREATE THIS WORLD?

Are we going to get answer directly or the answer is going to lead us to a truth which is incredible to us till the time we actually experience that truth??

Let us see in the next post.

Hari Aum Tatsat.

Swami Vivekananda

Creation of the Universe - Part 21

Dear All,

Nāpratīti stayor bādhaḥ kintu mithyātva niścayaḥ, no cet suṣupti mūrcchādau mucyetā yatnato janaḥ (13)

The non-perception of the world is not freedom from bondage.It is the perception of the unreality of creation that is the freedom from bondage. 

There is no harm in seeing the mirage looking like water, but running after it as if it is water is ignorance.

Even when we know that it is a mirage and we do not run after it, it is still seen. The water in the mirage will still appear even to the person who knows that it is not water.

Similarly, even for a wise person, the world may be visible.

Even a Jivanmukta will see the world, but he will know that it is not there, and therefore he will not be attached.

If mere non-perception of a thing is freedom, we would be freed in deep sleep, in a coma, or in a swoon. 

We could get liberation without any effort if the mere non-perception of things could be regarded as freedom, as happens every day in deep sleep. But this is not so. Non-perception of the existent thing is not freedom.

The recognition of the unreality of an existent thing is freedom. Let it be there, but we do not get attached to it on account of knowing what it is made of, really speaking. 

Perception itself is not bondage; the ignorance attached to the perception is bondage.

Paramātmā vaśeṣo’pi tat satyatva viniścayaḥ, na jagat vismṛtir no ceñ jīvan muktirna saṁbhavet (14).

The unreality of the world is, at the same time, an affirmation of the reality of God.

When the forms and names are brushed aside as finally not valid in this process of creation, we will get awakened to the consciousness of the background.

When we do not see the ink, we will then see the cloth.

Even in a cinema we can see the screen behind the film if we concentrate our mind properly.

In a similar manner, we can see the consciousness of the Absolute pervading all things, notwithstanding the fact that there is a variety of names and forms. 

This condition of seeing the variety and yet being conscious of the Universal Being at the same time is called Jivanmukti, which was described in a previous post.

This is the essence of Vibhuthi Yoga in Bhagwad Gita.

Dear All,

Not recognizing the dancing pictures on the movie screen/ Not recognizing the drawings on the pure canvass has to be properly understood.

It is impossible not to physically ignore the dancing pictures or drawings. Your eyes do see them.

What is most important to know and realize here is “To be tuned to/ To be aware of the pure consciousness energy which is everywhere and in everything, at all times.”

To the extent this awareness is complete and full, to that extent, you will not be able to perceive and take in anything even when you see the dancing pictures/ drawings.

Let us understand this more clearly today and for ever in the context of God and Devotee, as we can relate to this relation more easily.

When a devotee like  Mira/ Tulsidas/Kabir/Tyagaraja etc. is so much filled with Godly thoughts, God consciousness, the devotee is never ever able to come down to the level of thinking whether he is perceiving the worldly things  ore not.

For Mira, there was no one else, there was nothing else that existed other than Krishna, so much so that, She herself lived as Krishna.

Now, we can relate easily to the lines given earlier-"What is most important to know and realize here is “To be tuned to/ To be aware of the pure consciousness energy (God if you may say so) which is everywhere and in everything, at all times.”

Love.