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DELUSIVE WORLD

There is only One Consciousness, i.e., Universal Consciousness. The world looks delusive as long as we feel ourselves as separate entities circumscribed by our body-mind-intellect complex. The ocean is one existence of the waves and tides rising from it but looks different to our perception, limited by our psycho-physical complex. In reality, tides or waves are the form, and the ocean is the substance. Similarly, Existence is One only, and on the surface of the Existence, there seem to be variations of different existences of mountains, forests, rivers, deserts, atmospheres, animate, inanimate, and so on manifest in forms. It's all because we are all limited by limited adjuncts of space and time that put a limit on our sensual perceptions. We do not transcend our psycho-physical structure, and the abstract entity known as 'ego' originates solely from that structure. Knowing fully well that this psycho-physical structure is transient, we still go by the ways the 'ego...

THE MONSTER OF OLD AGE

Birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth are inevitable cycles that come one after the other in a cyclical process in the Samsara Chakra (wheel of birth and death) in the world of perishability. The conception of the world remains in the mental sense perceptual state in states of waking and dreaming, but in deep sleep state there is no perception of the world, as the senses remain inactive or in dormant state. However, in Turiya there are no states of consciousness but only non-dual pure Consciousness and realisation of Brahman, or  Supreme Self. It is an experience where the mind horizontally moves inward from the objective dimension to the subjective one to realise Atman , or Self; and vertically the consciousness level is elevated from the finite psycho-physical level of identification, transcending waking, dreaming and deep sleep to unattached and non-dual Atman , or Self, of Pure Consciousness, the infinity of infinitude. It is of Brahman , or Supreme Self, the witness to othe...

SPACE AND TIME

In the Upanishads, Akasha (space) and Kala (time) are not just manifest dimensions but perspicacious philosophical concerns entwined with the unmanifest one, Brahman , or Cosmic Self, or Absolute Existence. Space is the repository form of all of the phenomenal dimensions, the source of potential. The unmanifest is seen as eternal and infinite and the very fabric of consciousness, with time as movement within space, both ultimately transcended by the spaceless and timeless Atman (Self). Sage Yajnavalkya describes space as the void that surrounds all things. It is the emptiness that allows for movement and change. It is the source of all creation and the infinite potential from which all things arise. Time is the sequence of events that unfolds in the universe. It is the measure of change and movement. Time is the underlying reality that imparts order to the universe. It is the fabric of the cosmos. The movement of time is cyclical and non-linear, as it constantly repeats itself in a ...