Hari OM
'Text-days' are for delving into the
words and theory of Advaita Vedanta.
Last week we began introduction to
the BMI chart, with transcription of Gurudev's presentation on the
subject. If you have not already done so, please review it. Here is part two.
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Now. The body, the mind and
the intellect are made up of matter. Calcium, carbon, phosphorus. Grosser
matter is the body, subtler matter is the mind and intellect.
Matter, whether gross or subtle, is
inert and insentient. You and I are dynamic and conscious.
Where does it get it? The parts of a car are all inert matter and it
moves. What makes the car move? What
makes a bulb glow? There must be something other than the bulb, expressing
through the bulb. In the same way, what is it that is enlivening me? The time
comes when I have not energy, my efficiency gone, the beauty of emotions gone,
my brilliance of intellect gone, even Einstein stopped 'working'. The body is
there, lying down, but it has no faculties, abilities. Why?
"LIFE" is no more expressing through it.
Therefore my friends, there must be something other than matter in
the BMI to enliven the BMI. That is why it is said in the Bible that God is 'in
the heart of all, enlivening everything'…'lending faculties to them by His
Grace.' Just as the bulb has got light with the 'grace' of electricity, the
heater has got heat by the 'grace' of electricity, you and I are today
functioning as we are due to the 'grace' of something other than matter. Since
it is something other than matter is called 'the spirit'. In the spiritual
centre, the spark of existence/ consciousness is one in everyone, just as the
electricity is one but the bulbs are different; the radios are different, the
computers are different, equipments are different, but the electricity is one.
Cars are different... but the petrol is one and the same. LOVE is the same,
plant, animal or human; [that which] enlivens everyone according to the
equipments available, that One Reality is indicated by the sound symbol 'OM'.
So the consciousness, or OM, when it's passing through Body, (made up of the sense organs, the eyes,
ears, nose, tongue, skin of your body), there crystalises a sense of conscious
individuality. 'I' the Perceiver, perceiving [via organs of
perception] the sense Objects.
"'I' am seeing, 'I' am hearing, 'I' am smelling, 'I' am
tasting."
How do you see? "Oh swamiji it is so simple, with the eyes 'I'
see!" Aaaaahhh. Eyes cannot see. If
eyes could of themselves see, every one of us would have one eye only - because
we would have kept one eye on the office...or at home...to have an eye on your
people! No the eye(ball) canNOT see and in this modern world it is not
difficult to understand, as we are doing transplant. I die, but my eyes are
young. They are taken and given to a
blind man and he starts to see through my dead eyes! Uh-uh. It is not the eyes which are seeing, but the
consciousness behind them, becoming conscious of what the eyes are transmitting
and then I say I SEE (or hear or smell…)
All the time what we are meaning is that 'I am conscious of the
hearing, conscious of the smell, conscious of the taste..' The consciousness
behind [the equipment] enlivens and not knowing, 'I' become 'Mr Perceiver', the
seer, the hearer, the smeller, the taster, the toucher.
Similarly consciousness functions through the mind, becomes the
conscious, psychological 'me', the 'Feeler.
'I' feel, with the mind, various Emotions...the
endless varieties.
The same consciousness functions through the intellect, expressing
as the conscious 'Thinker'...thinking the
world of Thoughts.
Thus the world of Objects, the field of Emotions and the realms of
Thought are the fields from which I gather my experiences, with the sense
organs of the body, mind and intellect. So BMI are the equipments of my
experiences. OET represents the field of
my experiences; and 'I' the experiencer, the individualised, conscious ego, is
the PFT.
It is not that 'I' am seeing with my eyes, becoming the perceiver;
but the moment you understand 'I' am seeing through my eyes you become independent. You are
standing in our drawing room, you are seeing the moon rise; now the question is
"who is seeing the moon rise"?
"Simple swamiji, the window is seeing the moonrise." Why?
"If there is no window, will you see the moon?"
[Nonsense]. Is it the window seeing the moonrise, or is it that you
are seeing through the window? So are
you not 'you' who is in you who is using these equipments to experience the
outer world?
Thus, 'I' the consciousness in the eyes become the 'seer', in the
ears become the 'hearer', in the nose
the 'smeller', in the tongue the 'taster', in the skin the 'toucher'; in the
mind the 'feeler', in the intellect the 'thinker'. Ahaaaa - in the unholy
combination you have forgotten who YOU are and unholy combination identified
with the body, mind and intellect. You said that "I am the perceiver,
feeler, thinker."
It is this PFT who wants 'private interview' for the sorrows of his
life.
THINK!
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Again, write down the questions which arose as you read this, express any doubts. Prepare for part three.