Humble obeisance to the Supreme Lord who is transcendental and also immanent at the same time and who is the Self in all, who is the all.
1. The Goal and the Means: Man thinks: 'I am the body. The
world is real; it is outside me. And God is transcendental. When the ultimate Truth revealed in the Upanishads is realised, he experiences: 'I am not the body, but pure Consciousness. The world is unreal as the world, but is the expression of the same Consciousness, nay, Consciousness itself. And God is not only transcendental Consciousness but also immanent as Consciousness in the world. Thus, the 'I'-consciousness, the world-consciousness and God-consciousness coalesce and become one without a second. The word 'Consciousness', with its dictionary meaning as generally conceived by the mind, cannot convey what Consciousness really is. For that matter, no word can convey the experience of the pure Consciousness, for It is beyond the ken of the mind and speech. It is the bold declaration of the scriptures and Sages that one who realises this Truth is beyond the pains of this transmigratory life (the life of repetitive birth, existence and death) and is in a state of Ananda, Bliss-Absolute. What is the nature of the experience of this world after realisation? One experiences that the whole world including one's body-mind complex is a superimposition on the pure Consciousness like the superimposition of a necklace or a bracelet on gold. Because the substratum which is Consciousness is real, all the world including one's body and mind acquires apparent reality, though the reality is of the substratum alone. The experience of the universe and all beings in it in the three states of waking, dream and deep sleep, is seen as a long dream. To such a person others may seem to be real or unreal or non-existent or as pure Consciousness. To others he is seen to be real as the body-mind complex. This relative reality ofHumble obeisance to the Supreme Lord who is transcendental and also immanent at the same time and who is the Self in all, who is the all.
1. The Goal and the Means: Man thinks: 'I am the body. The
world is real; it is outside me. And God is transcendental. When the ultimate Truth revealed in the Upanishads is realised, he experiences: 'I am not the body, but pure Consciousness. The world is unreal as the world, but is the expression of the same Consciousness, nay, Consciousness itself. And God is not only transcendental Consciousness but also immanent as Consciousness in the world. Thus, the 'I'-consciousness, the world-consciousness and God-consciousness coalesce and become one without a second. The word 'Consciousness', with its dictionary meaning as generally conceived by the mind, cannot convey what Consciousness really is. For that matter, no word can convey the experience of the pure Consciousness, for It is beyond the ken of the mind and speech. It is the bold declaration of the scriptures and Sages that one who realises this Truth is beyond the pains of this transmigratory life (the life of repetitive birth, existence and death) and is in a state of Ananda, Bliss-Absolute. What is the nature of the experience of this world after realisation? One experiences that the whole world including one's body-mind complex is a superimposition on the pure Consciousness like the superimposition of a necklace or a bracelet on gold. Because the substratum which is Consciousness is real, all the world including one's body and mind acquires apparent reality, though the reality is of the substratum alone. The experience of the universe and all beings in it in the three states of waking, dream and deep sleep, is seen as a long dream. To such a person others may seem to be real or unreal or non-existent or as pure Consciousness. To others he is seen to be real as the body-mind complex. This relative reality of
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