Consciousness and Manifestation

 

Existence is of two kinds – consciousness and manifestation. The two states have different properties. A complete whole is made when these two states are combined. One can either be consciousness OR a manifested phenomenon, but NOT both at the same time.

Manifestation is motion. It is memory, change, fluidity, loss, revival, interconnectedness, space-time and intent, feelings etc. It has perception, a name and form. It vibrates and the vibrations cause force and matter to be apparently perceived by us. So we see “many” and we believe that each form is different (just as we are). The belief in difference is an output of an inborn “desire” (or force) that is present in all phenomena. One can say that since there is desire / intent / vibration – there is a world of perception. So there are alternating cycles of change, of forms, of motions, of frequencies, of patterns and so on. What to cling and why to cling? Clinging is our perception that we can be happy only if there is no change or there is complete understanding of all the variables that constitute manifestation – since any variable of any intensity of any location and of any time period causes a change externally and internally.

Does it have to be so? This is a lifelong inquiry. As long as we perceive variables through senses and we respond to them, we create further momentum of desires and actions – so we are continuously dragged in this machine of manifestation. Is suppression the key, is engagement the key, does running around or sitting quiet solve the puzzle of imagination? It is to be discovered. The process of discovery is required to transform our desires till nothing remains and there is no compulsion to act and there is no force or motion or perception or memory or character or any form. There is a “seed” of consciousness – a medium that lies beyond everything that is known in the manifested world.

It is not a question of good behaviour or discipline – all these are methods to realize the reality. One can do anything, one can start anywhere and one can question anything.

Donate and renounce. Empty the mind. What we are here, is only notional and an instrument of manifestation. WE perceive manifestation and HENCE can’t perceive God. If we perceive God, then we will not perceive manifestation. So manifestation is limited in its potential. God has no limits. Since there is a drop of this potential within us, this needs to be realized. SO donate, give, surrender, accept and be happy. There is no fighting required or evaluation or judgement or running around. Whatever is seen, accept it fully and offer the best you can without any expectation. Let all things pass through you but be untouched by any impression things create.