PROCESS OF CREATION:

1) From Satwa - Sources of Life for the Senses or Indriyas viz. Sun, Moon, Aswini, Vaayu, Indra, Varuna, etc.

2) From Rajas - Mona. China, Buddhi Ahankaara & the 10 Senses or Indriyas. 3) From Tamas - 5 Essentials & 5 Materials, viz.

Sound - Ether or Sky (Hearing). Touch - Air (Knowing).

Form - Fire or Light (Resolving). Taste - Water (Liking)

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Supreme Wisdom in the Light of Right Living

Whatever we do in this world it is through our Intellect. It is like an instrument (Karana). We are solely guided by this, we are blindly following it. If it is wrong it will lead us to troubles. That is why the necessity arose for us to perform Gayatri daily, meaning thereby to pray this Intellect not to lead us astray. It is a separate entity like mind and the different senses or Indriyas within us. It is to be worshipped like a God.

As a barber daily sharpens his razor blade so as to make it well-working, and thus to avoid troubles, so, as an art of sharpening or making fit, this Intellect is a vital necessity for one who wants to avoid every trouble.

This Intellect, which we speak of, is termed as Buddhi, is not perfect. We always come to trouble if we follow its lead. There is one Supreme Wisdom, which we call Bodha, which is right, and gives us freedom from troubles. This Bodha should be made our Guide. Its acquisition depends upon how far we have made our Intellect pure in the light of the three Principles, viz. Devotion, Knowledge and Activity.

Our Intellect should be surcharged with Devotion or Morality involved, Knowledge or avoiding the influence of the Three Gunas and lastly, with a careful avoiding of Akarmas and Vikarmas.

SB: For instance, you bought a watch from a person. Later on, it came to be

known that it was a stolen thing. The man who lost it owned that it was his. Some such trouble came. Now let us penetrate the matter. You did the work of buying the watch: who brought all these trouble? Obviously, it is this Intellect of ours through which we worked. Let us see how far this is wrong in the light of the 3 Principles. The activity side is right, as it is taken to be a work (Karma), neither a harmful work nor a useless one. Knowledge also came right, because we got how good a watch we wanted. But in the last, the Morality side, we find the defect - the Right Morality in buying the watch, we could not look into. From a recognized shop or from a reliable agent, it should be. This idea never struck in our mind before. When one of these 3 Principles is wrong, the fact that the other two are right, can have no excuse. The trouble is there already. That means the other two also are affected and made to look wrong. The required blending of all the three in a desired level is lost sight of. Now the question may come from you, whence is this knowing that the person from whom it is bought is a thief. This of course can be known only after perfection in rightly blending the 3 Principles.

REALISATION or VISION OF GOD:

It can be had only by the Grace of God. Only such a man working his Right Life (Swadharma) along these 3 Principles, yet not being involved in enjoying the fruits thereof, dedicates all to God and always remains for the most part of his time in deep hankering or contemplation after God, is the person who deserves this Grace.

When this Self-realization comes, there is nothing unaccomplished for the man. He becomes all-knowing. Even by the mere strength of his thought things in gross shapes can be realized at once. There is no inertia or seemingly long expanse of time and space between his thought and the

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actual resultant matter involved. The truth is that what we work with is this mind, intellect and these 5 Indriyas. And as everything outside is composed of the 5 elements and as we have in our body the same elements in the form of these Indriyas. Our thought can thus create things from within ourselves. That is why the decision of scientists “This world is but a continuous thought”. We think of required sort of things, we give voice to it, and naturally sound is produced. This sound in turn cannot remain silent without producing air or motion. This air or wind in turn produces a definite turn or direction in the domain of water. And this, in turn, creates fire or zeal in the fulfillment. And lastly comes the earth or a definite, a concrete form is fulfilled.

For example, our thought - “I shall go to Pashupati”.

Sound - Ether: Hearing the idea (vague)

Touch - Air: Knowing the implication of the idea (clear) Form - Fire: Putting me to action (Determination) Taste - Water: Taking the interest or feeling the interest Smell - Earth: Realising the object.

Subject and object become one: I reach Pashupati.

THE QUESTIONS: WHAT, WHY and HOW’?

I. WHY?

To enjoy (for happiness).

Happiness consists of Sukha, Santosh and Shanti, i.e. Pleasure, Serenity and Peace.

II. HOW?

By the 3 Purifications, such as of Morality, Knowledge & Intellect. III. WHAT?

God, Purusha & Maya.

Avyakta, Vyakta & Knowledge or Mind, Intellect & Rest of the 24 Principles.

What all things we see in this world, men and materials, all nature and its different phenomena, are simply bewildering. We cannot make out what they are. The reality behind them, the secret of secrets, is quite hidden to us, as if, hermetically sealed. The earnest enquiry amongst us is times without number repelled from his activity, thrown back into despair and anxiety, as he cannot come to a right solution of all this bewildering complexity. But if we do not lose heart and with patience continue our search, our earnest enquirer will naturally have a right direction; we find a real Guru who has plunged deep into all this and has made out what they are. When rightly approached, he gives a satisfactory answer to our query. His analysis of this existence and ourselves comes into the 24 Principles or Tattwas, viz. God, Purusha, Maya; the unseen Fate (or Avyakta), the same with Name (Vyakta) and Mind or Knowledge, which turns the same unseen force with form, and makes distinct, then Intellect, the 5 Matraas, 10 External & Internal Indriyas.

God is like an infinite mass of water while Purusha is a finite quantity of the same water - as a small piece of sugar is but a part out of an infinite mass of

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sugar, while the quality in both the cases remains the same. The Purusha within us, Jivaatma, is a descent from God or Paramaatman, a part of HIM but full in itself like HIM. And this Purusha unlike inert matter, plays with his Strength & Intelligence which both together is called Maya. This playing or the application of his Strength and Intelligence is the cause for the effects to be formed. The effect is the Madhyama & Adhama Tattwas. This playing with Maya effects a sort of Fate which in the beginning is unseen or (Adrista); then becomes seen and named (Drista). And again, this mind (or knowledge) makes it perfectly clear and distinct. In short, a name and a form is given to that Avyakta. Then this Intellect resolves to materialize this mind. It plans and gives an order to the 5 Tanmaatraas & Indriyas to execute. This is how this existence came to be formed, and what we see around us is this: Playing of Purusha with Maya and the different effects cast on the canvas.

Naturally then we ask why is all this? There must be a purpose behind all this working. The answer we get is that all this is for the enjoyment of the Purusha, so to say, for his own happiness. This perfect happiness is composed of pleasures, serenity & peace (Sukha, Santosh and Shanti). If one of these is lacking, we cannot call this happiness as perfect and unalloyed. How then can we get this and always enjoy Supreme Bliss, which is our Real Nature? By RL.

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