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Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.
The one point I would like you to understand is that (I have said it many times, but this fact never goes home to people) the whole creation is nothing but matter and energy. But both of them are inert. Matter and energy could not have come from matter and energy. Then I would say, I am asking you the source of that matter and also energy.
So, whenever we think of finding out a source of anything, that source has to be definitely different from the effect, the outcome. So, is there anything other than matter and energy which we can think of or we experience? Yes - The consciousness in our body which keeps it animate and active.
This consciousness has only three expressional notes. Mind - It is more a functional name than a substantial name. It is called mind because of mentation. It is called intelligence or intellect because of intellection. It is called ego or ahankara because it produces the ‘I’ feeling. All these are different functional notes of consciousness itself! When the mind is functioning, intelligence cannot function. When the mind and the intelligence are functioning, that ego functioning will not be there. It is like the legs not walking while running, not running while standing, not standing while sitting, not sitting while lying. So anything can do only one function at a time.
This consciousness is the only third factor, the other two being matter and energy. And this consciousness is the source of all matter and energy. It is also capable of creating matter and energy, a fact that we are able to understand from our dream. This consciousness itself makes our body felt and animating, activating the body, it precipitates the wakeful state. In the same manner, at the end of the wakeful state, it wipes off everything and goes into sleep. So it causes as also wipes off. But itself, it never disappears. It always remains.
It is something like a man living in a house with three rooms. He will either be in room number one or two or three. He cannot be without any room and he can only be in one room at a time. But there is somebody called the man resident other than the rooms. He goes on transiting from one to the other. But at every point of time he will be in one room. But he will leave one and go to another, thereby indicating that he is separate from the three. This is how you find out by application of anvaya, the Turiya, the Atma, the soul.
This consciousness alone, alone, alone, alone is there. Everything is a production, display, manifestation, creation, expression of this consciousness. Now can you understand it first? Can you pursue it next? Can you realize it in the end? This is the simple question before everyone.
Bhagavad Gita, by a beautiful conversation, Krishna is trying into instill in Arjuna the process of truthful and infusional introspection. We are all employing our intelligence and doing intellection. But that intellection is only applied to the matter-energy world, to the external, objective, gross activities and wonderful results are there. We are travelling in the air, travelling in water, travelling on road, we are sending drones, we have send satellites to survey the whole of the earth, we can go to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, anywhere. It is all the outcome of our intelligence.
So our intelligence has got untold potential. Use the same intelligence to do something called truthful and infusional introspection as a result of which whatever the intelligence thinks will be able to bring about a salutary effect in the mind, to sublimate the mind and take away all kinds of tension, stress, tension and stress, make the mind more moderate, more peaceful, more poised, make the intelligence more perceptive, apply the intelligence on subtle and subtler things and the subtlest is the soul.
When the intelligence starts introspecting on the soul, its perceptional ability will be manifold. It will be almost like the Self in the end. “To know God is to become God” is a celebrated proverb. In India we say “Brahmavid Brahmaiva Bhavati”. To know Brahman, the truth is to become the truth. So much is the effect of knowledge when it is applied in an infusionally introspecting manner. This infusional introspection is the secret of the entire spiritual sadhana. But I am sorry people don’t understand the effect of introspection. It should be infusional and the effect should be on the mind itself.
Harih Om Tat Sat. Jai Guru. Jai Guru.