Situation – Perception = Consciousness.

 

There are countless number of things that require attention....and this list will keep growing. This list will include many things that talk about worry of the past or the future and will involve events, situations, people and so on. The emphasis is on control and this means to be identified with a state of mind that represents a “force” (desire and insecurity or fear). Being human, we call this force by these terms, else some kind of force is present in all the cosmos that creates matter (or is informed by matter) and that perceives other forces.

SO perception or awareness of existence is a result of this force that is present within us. We = perception = force = situation = ego = memory = impulse = compulsion = tendency.

Decoding this further, we come to the basic unit of space that vibrates as a medium to create a wave and a particle – and that leads to all kinds of forms. However, forms are not inert – they are acted on by force and they perceive other forms by the internal force itself. This law applies to us too. Hence, we have taken a form having a “property” (or characteristic) and we think based on the property of mind and body. We “think”, that is we imagine something. We imagine something about compulsions, security, completeness, freedom, and we remain engrossed in the same thoughts and desires which lead to action. I move in some space and in some time. I have a skin, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, tongue and they compel me to respond. I see something like a “tree” or “dog” or “Rohan” or “Esha” and I respond. Why?...

All responses that get conceived are coming from a ‘motion’ of force. This motion is fluid, keeps changing and results in perception or relative knowledge of Nature. This motion is a struggle to be perfect and it either attracts something or repels something else but it constructs me and keeps me bounded in this existence. As long as “me” exists, it is a sign of motion (desire or attachment or clinging or fear) and this motion compels me to do things or take action. Imagination cannot exist without motion. All motions are a sort of struggle to achieve equilibrium. So, the moment I have a thought, it will lead to some action and some output and will have an effect on other forces. There is not a single unit of time, currently, where a thought does not exist.

This is what is called illusion or Maya. Maya is motion and to identify oneself with it. This motion keeps changing and we remain on a roller coaster ride. Maya is an alternating cycles of good and evil; light and dark; sun and the moon; birth and death; young and old; low and high; dessert and paradise. Not one set of conditions stays constant and to ask for security is a misconception. All forms of existence are governed by the Law of Cause and Effect (force and matter) and hence no amount of intellect or feelings or actions can bring about a halt in this Law of Motion. This is what it IS.

The inquiry may be to realize what motion is and what causes it? Motion seems real to us for our state of mind - else, there is absolutely NO motion. The property of motion is to change or keep interacting and hence these forces one sees and responds to. The property of consciousness is beyond Laws of Motion and hence It is stationary, at rest, at peace and unattached to any force or form or event or situation or time or space. What we call as motion and perceive space and time is a different state of consciousness – that seems to change constantly.

Mathematically, how are we to perceive consciousness? This can be stated as:

Situation – Perception = Consciousness.

A motion makes one bounded to a form and makes one perceive reality therefore. I am motion, so I perceive a situation (or generate a situation). If I am consciousness, I am beyond all motion or perception or situation and am unbounded by any form or character.

The cycle of consciousness to manifestation is eternal one. What one exists is just some proportion of consciousness and perception.