In this blog I will try to explain how consciousness is the basis for the Universe. Lets start with examples.
you see a beautiful painting, and ask 'who has painted this'. You hear a beautiful voice and ask 'whose voice is this'. You see a beautiful nest and ask 'which bird has built this'. To simplify the point, you look for reasons for everything and assume there has to be someone behind every creation. Now extend the same. You see the Universe around you. Ask the question 'who has created this?'. What is the answer that we have from science 'It formed on its own, with lots of forces like gravity etc involved.' Now take back this answer and apply it to the examples we took earlier. The artist moved the brush and gravity made him move his hand in a certain way and the painting was done. Similarly the bird just put wood sticks together and some electric brain signals made it do that way, leading to that nest. You do not agree to this because you see some order in that nest/building/painting and you understand order does not come from randomness.
Now we are assuming that there is no order in this universe. Just take an example. When will the next Solar eclipse be seen in India. You might need telescopes and lots of complex calculations to come to the answer. But you can find the answer using just the astrological chart. Take any panchang and you would find the list of eclipses for the next few years. So the motion of planets is not random, but precise. Similarly you would find randomness across galaxies but there is some order in that. Lets remove the randomness of creation with few examples. Kali yug spans 4,32,000 years and Dwapar yug is twice that. There are 84 lac kinds of living species. You can know more from the Vedas.
Now lets get into the crux of this. You are at a painting competition, observing various artists carrying out their work. They start with a white sheet and paint something initially. As they continue we might find randomness in the painting at times. We assume he is painting something but he might be painting something else altogether. What do we understand from this. The painting is already there in the mind of the artist and its just the execution which is happening in front of us. Now extend this. "The Universe is already there in the mind of the creator and its just the execution which we are experiencing."
So you might find a chimpanzee turning into a human, but the human was the one planned.
You might find all the above things theoretical but the rishis have proved this beyond doubt. They could get to the consciousness of the creator, using just their mind, and have known the secrets of the Universe. We need not do that as we have their work gifted to us as scriptures. So we just need to understand and use their knowledge for our benefit, without any questions asked. Lets take an example. Its said in the scriptures that if a person is able to open his third eye, he would know the past, present and future. Now you might understand what opening of third eye could mean. Its equivalent to reading the artist's mind. The artist might be another person but the creator is there within you.
you see a beautiful painting, and ask 'who has painted this'. You hear a beautiful voice and ask 'whose voice is this'. You see a beautiful nest and ask 'which bird has built this'. To simplify the point, you look for reasons for everything and assume there has to be someone behind every creation. Now extend the same. You see the Universe around you. Ask the question 'who has created this?'. What is the answer that we have from science 'It formed on its own, with lots of forces like gravity etc involved.' Now take back this answer and apply it to the examples we took earlier. The artist moved the brush and gravity made him move his hand in a certain way and the painting was done. Similarly the bird just put wood sticks together and some electric brain signals made it do that way, leading to that nest. You do not agree to this because you see some order in that nest/building/painting and you understand order does not come from randomness.
Now we are assuming that there is no order in this universe. Just take an example. When will the next Solar eclipse be seen in India. You might need telescopes and lots of complex calculations to come to the answer. But you can find the answer using just the astrological chart. Take any panchang and you would find the list of eclipses for the next few years. So the motion of planets is not random, but precise. Similarly you would find randomness across galaxies but there is some order in that. Lets remove the randomness of creation with few examples. Kali yug spans 4,32,000 years and Dwapar yug is twice that. There are 84 lac kinds of living species. You can know more from the Vedas.
Now lets get into the crux of this. You are at a painting competition, observing various artists carrying out their work. They start with a white sheet and paint something initially. As they continue we might find randomness in the painting at times. We assume he is painting something but he might be painting something else altogether. What do we understand from this. The painting is already there in the mind of the artist and its just the execution which is happening in front of us. Now extend this. "The Universe is already there in the mind of the creator and its just the execution which we are experiencing."
So you might find a chimpanzee turning into a human, but the human was the one planned.
You might find all the above things theoretical but the rishis have proved this beyond doubt. They could get to the consciousness of the creator, using just their mind, and have known the secrets of the Universe. We need not do that as we have their work gifted to us as scriptures. So we just need to understand and use their knowledge for our benefit, without any questions asked. Lets take an example. Its said in the scriptures that if a person is able to open his third eye, he would know the past, present and future. Now you might understand what opening of third eye could mean. Its equivalent to reading the artist's mind. The artist might be another person but the creator is there within you.
Space & Time - Now we will use the painting example to understand space and time. The artist has something in his mind and what we see on paper is just a reflection of it. The sheet of paper can be assumed to be space and time being the time taken by him during the process of painting. So space and time have come into picture for us as a viewer but for the artist it was always there. We would be caught in this space and time if we keep looking at the sheet of paper. Going further Space & Time come into picture only at the material level. For example you cannot measure time using carbon dating when there is no carbon.
Lets understand levels of consciousness next with an example. If you wish to go on a tour to some country you might have to arrange all by yourself, getting tickets, planning the journey, accommodation, food etc. Now if the president of India wishes to go on a tour what is required. Its just the thought of visiting the place. Extend this, at the level of divine consciousness, you need not worry about the execution. The thought manifests itself. Patanjali's yoga sutras talk about how you can gain super normal powers with Yoga. The definition of yoga, would make things clear. Yoga : Union, of the human 'mind' with the divine.
I hope you have got some understanding about this. We will see later about growing in consciousness and understanding divine consciousness.
1 comment:
"you might find a chimpanzee turning into a human, but the human was the one planned". Homo Sapiens doesn't seem like perfect beings; we still might be in transition.. :)
Excellent analysis. I would like to discover super normal powers though..:D
Post a Comment