1. Creation/Creativity/Initiation/Origin
2. Indulgence/Opulence/Fulfillness/Wellness
3. Energy/Endurance/Neuroticism/Shakti
4. Stabilization/Nurturance/Sustenance/Poise
5. Determination/Absoluteness/Pruning/Mool-Bhav
6. Status/Power/Authority/Dominance/Egoism
7. Conscientiousness/Inevitability/Finality
It is easy to understand and accept that within an individual, these seven elements are deeply ingrained in subconscious layers of self and are expressed in multidimensional plurality of action and behavior. These elements are core instincts of a subjective consciousness and as these elements are intangibles for success of survival of a person, their expressions in behavior and actions are vocal and ubiquitous.
It is also equally visible to all that all cultures of all human societies, across geographical divide in the world have the same seven elements. All cultures are mystical and magical expressions of the marvel of these seven elements. It is a huge domain of empirical study and analysis as how the same elements act and interact with each other in the respective domains of individual self and society. These seven elements engender a mystically marvelous causality between the individual and societal domains and in turn, this causality influences in shaping up the rainbowish shades of cognition both in an individual as well as in contemporary popular societal culture.
We can talk in lengthy details about these cognitions and causality of seven elements but this is not our focus area in this book. We shall talk about them in another book in future. Here, our purpose and utility is to draw the mechanism as how these cognition and causality engender the divinity and its multidimensional realisms. In ancient Indian wisdom, as we said earlier, all these seven elements were made to be owned separately by seven Gods, who are the seven core Gods in Indian tradition. Though in contemporary Indian religious traditions, there are now 330 million deities, a deep look into their historicity of origin and traditions of worship shall very clearly reveal that all of them are owners of only these seven elements.
As we said, there are seven original Gods and Goddesses, who were assigned the ownership of each of these seven elements. Now we once again present the seven elements with their reigning deity marked alongside –
1. Creation/Creativity/Initiation/Origin – Brahma
2. Indulgence/Opulence/Fulfillness/Wellness – Indra
3. Energy/Endurance/Neuroticism/Shakti – Durga
4. Stabilization/Nurturance/Sustenance/Poise – Vishnu
5. Determination/Absoluteness/Pruning/Mool-Bhav – Shiva
6. Status/Power/Authority/Dominance/Egoism – Shani
7. Conscientiousness/Inevitability/Finality – Yam
We all need to be humble and innocent when it comes to acceptance of anything new, which is not part of our subjective consciousness, cognition and causality. The ancient Indian wisdom cautions that knowledge has utility only if it creates humility, as it is the humility and innocence, which extends the eligibility of wisdom. We are simply creating a hypothesis that ultimately proves, what ancient wisdom observed thousands of years back and what science now accepts as objective and replicable reality. The hypothesis is the acceptance that all realisms are expressions of the intangible processing mechanism of the mind consciousness. The hypothesis is – “Singular objective truth and realism apart, whatever seems and presents itself for observation, is a registry and artistry of the hugely mystical marvels of brain, which unravels them through our mind consciousness.”
Modern science and contemporary social sciences, based on the objectivity of the natural sciences have accepted the same ancient observation and wisdom. They have however explained the same in the light of the brain mechanism and new insights into the processing mechanism of consciousness. The 3Cs – Consciousness-Cognition-Causality, which happens to be behind the 3Ms – Mysticism-Marvel-Magic stands to be seen, interpreted, analyzed and accepted in a new light of holistic-assimilative-integrative perspective. This unravels the objective and singular perceptions of the 3Cs and in turn, settles the age-old multidimensionality and plurality of the 3Ms in an objective and replicable way.
This new causality makes it clear that consciousness has this within itself to engender all sorts of mysticism, marvel and magic. The marvel and mysticism is in the mechanism of the processing of elements of nature, within and outside human body and as these elements are intangible, they are bound to be expressed in a multidimensional way, depending on the interplay and randmomized causality of these seven elements.
Modern science admits that there are seven shades of consciousness and all shades are present in a single individual. It is like a singular source of light splits into seven colors of spectrum as it is made to pass through a prism. An individual’s current personality at a time-space situation is primarily decided by those elements of the seven shades, which are predominant in the same time-space bracket. This however may not be permanent, though many people can remain in the same personality element or elements all throughout their lives.
The social scientists have started to design a consciousness mapping of nations and societies on the basis of these seven shades of personality. It is said that in the existing world, people with red shade of consciousness, which marks the predominance of 2nd and 6th elements of indulgence and status. This shade of consciousness always has been the majority personality grouping at any time of the human civilization. All elements are equally important and inevitable for the evolution of life on this planet. We are not judging on the utility and superiority of any element or any shade of human consciousness and personality. Our enterprise is to observe a causality between consciousness, cultures and divinity.
It is very much easily observable that a person shall usually pick up a generic god to his or her own predominant consciousness. Ancient Indian wisdom said, “Only generic and similar elements can have lasting relationship.” Divinity choices can therefore be observed as causality of personal positioning of subjective consciousness and generic perception of a personal deity. In the long history of humanity, societies have evolved into a collective consciousness of a particular shade and accordingly, their presiding deities have changed too.
The mind consciousness is a strange subject. This subject – the source and dispenser of all actions and behavior has a mechanism, which engenders a beautifully mystical dualism. It is this dualism, which makes him or her engender realisms from within its consciousness and then in turn itself make it an external realism. We are not going into detail of this dualism of consciousness as we have done it in my previous book title, ‘Why Do You Want To Change Me?’. We shall however talk about how the dualism of human consciousness creates so much of magic and marvel. We shall primarily talk about how divinity is one such mysticism and marvel of the human consciousness. This shall finally reach us to a situation where the consciousness finally accepts the end of this dualism, the dissolution and assimilation of the dualism into one singular holism. At this consciousness, the expression, “I Am God” is the only realism.
The idea or feeling of ‘self’, a subjective consciousness of ‘I Am’, as separate and different from ‘them’ is a complex mechanism. Modern contemporary knowledge about this consciousness, which defines us, is now at a level, where we can understand why we as consciousnesses are a very complex entity. This complexity has evolved in a rather stupid way as evolution of humanity in the long journey of billions of years has been the primary stupidity. This subjective sense of ‘I Am’ is one huge potential of joy and wellness at one hand. However, this same subjectivity of consciousness makes it stand as the worst stupid of the universe, unparalleled in the millions of existing species on earth.
Modern objective knowledge unravels to us the complex mechanism of this subjective consciousness. Like the seven intangible elements of consciousnesses, science says that the individual personality has seven layers of consciousnesses within. They are –
1. The Lower Unconscious
2. The Middle Unconscious
3. The Higher Unconscious or Super-conscious
4. The Field of Consciousness
5. The Conscious Self or "I"
6. The Higher Self
7. The Collective Unconscious
All seven elements are within an individual and operate simultaneously. An individual’s personality has all seven stages of personal growth and evolution, alive and functioning at any point of time and space. The lower unconscious contains elements of various instincts, tendencies and complexes. In the higher unconscious are individual talents and potentials which, a person acquire by practice, reveal inner strengths and visions of the. The collective unconscious is the culture within. The life journey is shifting gears from these spheres of consciousnesses. We need to understand this.
From ancient wisdom to modern science, all wisdoms say the common thing. They say – “You are in your perspective and your perspectives are in you.” This means, the personality traits and choices define you and you in turn are defined by these personality choices and perspectives. The common wisdom is – “your subjective consciousness, the idea of ‘I Am’, is not a purely physical realism. This sense of ‘I’ is filtered through multiplicity of conflicting elements within mind consciousness, which are intangibles and it is expressed through brain’s mechanism, which is tangible. This ‘I’ is essentially an emergent and virtual agency, which acts like a virtual bridge between the tangibles and intangibles. That is why the consciousness, the sense of ‘I Am’, sways between the seven layers of consciousnesses, defined cyclically by seven elements of personality.
Modern social sciences maintain there are seven drives or instinctive intangibles within consciousness. They are : 1. Sensation 2. Emotion/Feeling 3. Impulse/Desire 4. Imagination 5. Thought 6. Intuition & 7. Will. The sense of ‘I Am’ presides over all these seven instinctive drives. These elements themselves function within a consciousness as sub-personalities. A consciousness is defined by the elements it allows to dominate itself. The element in turn starts defining the consciousness. The personality of the ‘I’ shall be what a dominant element desires. A woman with predominance of element of imagination may be a good poetess, writer or a painter and naturally, her personality shall evolve in a way it is culturally commensurate for an artist. Suitably, she shall attract all such elements from external milieu, which aids and enhances her dominant choice of the element of imagination. Therefore, the element shall start defining her perspectives and personality. Her personality shall be the sub-conscious decider of her consciousness. Even her inner culture shall draw those elements from societal culture, which are of the same color, which her consciousness is. That is why probably her divinity shall also draw elements from her dominant element of imagination. Her consciousness defines her perspectives and in turn, her perspectives start shaping her consciousness. Divinity is a culture within her consciousness and its elements.
In India’s most revered spiritual book, Geeta, the Krishna, who is accepted as the incarnation of Vishnu, the God of nurturance and stabilization, says – “He who seeks me in whichever disposition, I meet him in the same facilitative consciousness”. This is the most impacting and futuristic expression of divinity ever made. Vishnu, the most popular and dominant God in Hindu religious traditions accepts something, which is what modern science keeps telling people about the core idea of divinity. What Vishnu says means – “divinity is the idealism of consciousnesses. It is a facility, a functional superposition of consciousness, which is the ultimate arriving for all subjective consciousnesses. Divinity is the dissolution of all dualisms and ultimate destination of all journeying consciousnesses, where all seven elements of consciousnesses merge into a singular super consciousness.”
Subjective consciousnesses of individuals are split between seven elements of consciousnesses. This dualism makes them confused and conflicted. This subjective consciousness, in its dualism and resultant conflict fails to see that divinity is nothing external to its consciousness, it is a realism within. As the ‘I Am’ feeling is conflicted and in flux of dualism, his or her consciousness engenders the divide for him or her. He or she thinks, his or her God is some entity or function outside her faculties. The un-arrived and dualistic consciousness shall always seek divinity, his or her personal God outside her consciousness. The consciousness then unravels its own artistry of marvel and magic. It starts drawing similar elements from outside physical milieu and culture. If consciousness accepts the intangible element of divinity as outside entity, the subconscious layers of consciousnesses starts aligning with all similar and generic tangibles from the milieu and culture. You are what your perspectives are and your perspectives make what you are. Therefore, divinity when accepted as outside entity, engenders all external rituals and cultural necessities.
Arriving is all about mind training to lead the consciousness to a certain positioning or situationalism of complete reception, where all dualisms end. In all religions, the divinity tells people – “Stop seeing me, you shall see”, “stop searching me, you shall find”. Now, there are semantic conflations also in these words, apart from the dualism, which is purely a mind and consciousness positioning. One feels the dualism in the lines as it says to ‘stop’ doing something for its ‘fruition’. We must understand why there is no dualism in it.
The simple idea is, you and me cannot find or search God or love. It is there in whatever shape, color or positioning irrespective of our semantic and mental confusion about what and how God and love is. We get God and love not by finding or searching for it but by stopping doing it as, this leads us to be assimilated in God and Love, as both are in everything and everywhere. And the most important fact is that what we are searching and looking outside in the domain of mysticism and marvel is actually our own consciousness. You actually stop the dualism and conflict, the moment you stop looking outside. At this state of your consciousness, dualism stops and non-dualism is arrived at. The divinity is identified with and the super consciousness expresses this realism in the poorly designed human words of ‘I Am God”.
Both science and ancient wisdom talk about a singular facility, which leads us to this super consciousness, where “I Am God” expression becomes a realism. This intangible element is called ‘Will’. Will as an intangible element of consciousness grows like a seed in the soil of the subjective sense of ‘I Am’. The ultimate destination of this growth and personal evolution is expressed in terms of “I Am God”. This will is evolved in stages and each stage deals with another set of intangible. The evolution of will also goes through seven stages of personal growth. These seven stages are –
1. Innocence/Humility
2. Purpose/Utility
3. Deliberation/Self-exploration
4. Decision/Judgment
5. Affirmation/Acceptance
6. Planning/Readiness
7. Implementation/Arriving.
It has to be understood that ‘Will’ affects the evolution of the higher personality, not the sub-personalities. A whole range of intangibles like concentration, determination, patience, perseverance, courage, discipline, mastery, artistry, intensity, power, organization, integration, and synthesis are required for the process of evolution of the Will.
If you match these seven intangibles with the first classification of seven elements, owned by different deities, you can easily understand, how cyclical this causality of dualism is. These elements are similar. This reflects the realism that divinity is an intangible mechanism of reaching you your own potential as consciousness. This sums up as why, a consciousness, when arrives at the optimality of his or her potential as a consciousness, he or she reaches and merges with the singularity and here, ‘I’ is ‘Divinity’ – this realism is – “I Am God”.
In the chapters that follow, we shall talk about different expressions of the same idea of divinity.
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The State Of Absolute Bliss And Being
Since time immemorial, inquisitive people with questions in their hearts spent huge amount of time and energy to find what is good, ideal and desirable for all humans and for all times to come. So much has been written and more than that remains to be realized through unwritten traditions as well as wisdom ingrained in the original nature.
Through the ages and in different stages of human knowledge and civilizations, to some great people were revealed the ‘unknowable’, which is the ultimate wisdom that ‘cannot be known but only be realized’. However, for the benefit of humanity to come, they created some ‘Beej Gyaan’ (seed words of wisdom), which is just a word or a set of words, written in some mantra format or a shloka. All such seed words reveal the realism that wisdom is singular and that’s why the notion of God is also singular.
One such all-encompassing and ultimate seed word is: sat-chit-anand (sachidanand)….
The three parts of the seed word means:
sat = absolute existence
chit = absolute consciousness
anand = absolute bliss….
The word in Sanskrit language is ‘mool’. We can say it means absolute but as it is; the words that humanity has designed cannot fully explain the deepest of meanings and therefore, we have to accept a range of words to arrive at the idea behind the seed-idea of sat-chit-anand. The Sanskrit word Mool means: primary, absolute, intrinsic, innate, natural, zero, anashakt, nisprih, akaam karm, mokhchha, etc.
The holistic-assimilative-integrative idea behind the seed word sat-chit-anand needs to be understood. Ancient wisdom points out to the causality of life and its idealism by this seed word of sat-chit-anand. It says that sat-chit-anand is a state of readiness, an arriving to a stage in life, which is the primary and continuous positioning of consciousness. It says – sat-chit-anand is the mool-swabhav, mool awastha, mool wyawastha and mool auchitya of life and living. This means – sat-chit-anand is the original and innate positioning, it is the absolute and ultimate arriving.
The modern and very contemporary scientific ideas of Psychosynthesis and Psychoenergetics also say the same thing. The core idea of this seed wisdom is that sat-chit-anand state of consciousness being the mool (original/primary/absolute) situation and position of life and living, it is already and well there in all living being. If this state of consciousness is primary and absolute, it is essentially the instinctive nature of beings. If this is your first skin, you do not have to create it, or find it, or teach it or learn it or propagate it. The sat-chit-anand consciousness we just have to have it. That is why it is also called the common sense of consciousness. This common sense is just there to be unraveled and realized.
Given this hypothesis that all realisms are within human being, deep inside the consciousness of all beings, then the derivative theory is arrived at and it says, “This is the state of God…this cosmic element is primary therefore all beings, acquiring life and consciousness have the seed element embedded within. All beings have this within them and that is why all have God within them. This is what the seed wisdom says. A super consciousness, which arrives at the state of sat-chit-anand, is in the primary/original/absolute disposition, positioning and situationalism. This super consciousness is sat-chit-anand. This consciousness, which engenders the sense of “I Am”, arrives at this sat-chit-anand state of consciousness, which is the state of God. This commonality, which happens because of the dissolution and merger of all layers of consciousneses into one singular super consciousness is the God state of being. It is only natural that a consciousness in such a state of divinity says, “I Am God”.
In the ancient Indian tradition, this evolution of the state of super consciousness, where all layers of consciousnesses merge into a singular and absolute consciousness, has been elaborated through a metaphor called ‘Chakra’ system. It symbolizes the rise and evolution of all six layers of consciousness into one singular super consciousness, where the sense of “I Am”, dissolves into the light of divinity. The same idea is elaborated by Psychosynthesis in terms of evolving different layers of consciousnesses into one singular higher consciousness.
The metaphor is essentially the same. The primary metaphor is of light and its spectrum of seven colors. The life-living consciousness is symbolized as one light source, very much part of the absolute source of the light of the divinity. However, when this light source enters through the prism of the physical milieus of nature, society and culture, it gets scattered into seven different colors. The seven colors symbolize the seven layers of the consciousness.
The seed wisdom is – the super consciousness, the sat-chit-anand state of being is like the primary source of light. This light is the primary and absolute state of the consciousnesses of all beings. This however gets scattered and then the seven shades of consciousnesses engender all types of conflicts, chaos and confusion. The evolution of being is to get back to this original and absolute state of singular light – the singular consciousness of sat