ANALYSIS OF AWARENESS

Note: This article is meant for intellectuals only

The light energy is quantized and its fundamental bits are called as photons. A photon exists with certain frequency but the frequency is variable. The light energy is a part of cosmic energy and therefore, you should not say that the entire cosmic energy is light energy. Similarly, awareness is quantized into bits, called as the individual souls. Even though the light energy occupies a part of the cosmic space, it is continuous within its limited boundaries. But, the awareness is not like that. It is not continuous within the specified boundaries. It is discontinuous. It is just like some jewels displayed in a shop. The gold is quantized into jewels. But, the jewels in the shop are separate and have no continuity within the boundaries of the shop. At least, the original gold before modification into jewels is continuous as a lump within the specific boundaries. This means that awareness was not even a lump when it was created. The awareness was not created as a lump like gold and later on it was not quantized like the gold into jewels. The awareness is limited to a living being. The living beings have no continuity and are discrete with specified boundaries. The awareness is generated as a specific work form of inert energy in a specified nervous system existing in each living being. Since the awareness or nervous energy exists in the discrete living beings, we can say that the awareness is quantized into bits called as living beings.

The awareness does not mean simply the homogenous nervous energy. The bit of awareness existing in a living being is again quantized into different sub-bits called as thoughts. Each thought is a specific mode of nervous energy. The thoughts are different like the golden jewels with different designs. Therefore, a bit of awareness means a bundle of quantized thoughts only. Of course, the awareness can also exist as a lump without thoughts during the period of rest without sleep. In the rest period of deep sleep, the awareness exists as its basic form of inert energy. The rest of mind without sleep is called as meditation. The dream is again a bundle of thoughts without interaction with the external world. The bundle of thoughts interacting with the external world is the awaken state. The thoughts may vary from time to time due to the changed interactions with the external world. Such a change is compared to the change in the frequency of the photon. The dreams also vary since the thoughts of the dreams are only the stored external thoughts in the mind, which vary every day. Of course, the strong thoughts carried on from the previous births do not change. A dream sometimes involves the thoughts of the previous births and sometimes involves the day to day stored thoughts from the external world.

All this analysis of awareness becomes important since awareness is misunderstood as God. The reason for such misunderstanding is that since God is aware of everything, God must be awareness. In such case, God must have the nervous system in Himself with help of which only the awareness is generated as in the case of a living being. For the generation of the awareness, the matter in the form of nervous system and the inert energy are essential pre-requisites. We say that God created matter and energy. It becomes a contradiction because matter and energy exist in God even before the creation. Therefore, the awareness of God must be unimaginable. There cannot be unimaginable God and unimaginable awareness since two unimaginable entities need not exist. Again, the word unimaginable awareness is wrong. Awareness is an understood imaginable entity. If you say that the awareness is unimaginable, there will be self contradiction because the awareness is always imaginable. Therefore, you should remove the word ‘awareness’ and say that only unimaginable entity exists. This unimaginable entity itself is termed as God. The unimaginable entity can have the awareness without nervous system and inert energy through unimaginable way. By this, the unimaginable God can be associated with awareness and be aware of everything. This is a simple step and will have no complications. Otherwise, if you take the understood imaginable awareness as God, all the above complications arise. There are only two items. The first item is the creator, who is unimaginable. The second item is the creation, which is imaginable by the grace of God. The awareness is an item of creation and hence, cannot be the unimaginable God.

If you take the awareness as God, there will be a chain of slips and the final result of all these slips will be that you are God. Since the unimaginable God becomes imaginable for the sake of devotees by identifying Himself with a human form like Rama or Krishna, the wrong side effect of this human incarnation is that every human being thinks itself as God due to ego and jealousy. The identification of unimaginable God with the human form is perfect and hence, such a specific human form can be taken as God for all practical purposes. By this angle, the devotees are satisfied and are benefited. To neutralize the jealousy of some unfortunate human beings, a second angle of the concept of human incarnation can be projected in which, you can say that God is not really changed into the human form and hence, God and human form are separate. Both these angles are absolutely correct and hence, are equally important. The first angle is monism (Advaita) in which the electricity and the electrified wire are one and the same for all the practical purposes. The second angle is dualism (dvaita), which becomes clear in the theoretical analysis in which the electricity, which is a stream of electrons, is totally different from the electrified wire, which is chain of metallic crystals. The first angle is practical and the second angle is theoretical. Both the angles simultaneously co-exist due to the impossibility of the separation of electricity and wire during the flow of current. This third angle, which maintains both the first and second angle simultaneously, is called as vishishta advaita, which is a bridge between monism and dualism. When you do the practical service to the contemporary human incarnation, you must be confined to the first angle only. When your mind becomes infected by ego and jealousy, you must switch yourself to the second angle and neutralize the jealousy expecting the possibility of yourself also to become the human incarnation in future. You will be in the third angle, if you maintain the first and second angles in their respective contexts. Therefore, every human being must be grateful to the three divine preachers viz., Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva and should not confine to one only criticizing the others. You will insult one of the three aspects of the supreme divine preacher, Guru Datta, if you insult or oppose any divine preacher of these three.

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