The small reacting box in the shape or form called human is an amazing creation. It reacts to outside stimuli and this reaction varies according to time, place and situation. Those who try to bring universal harmony in the manner of reaction are what we call leaders. Leaders are in every field but the same leaders in material world are scientist, political leaders while in spiritual fields they are what we call son of God, Incarnation etc. Leaders in material field seems to be in quest of something that is permanent, unchanging but Incarnations are conscious of it. In the world of matter the tendency is towards preservation of matter in terms of body or material we love while in spirituality the Vedanta speaks of something inconceivable by thought. Although the awareness exists without thought but the thought of existence without thought is a paradox that seems to perplex us. Until and unless this consciousness recedes from body and one goes to states of being consciously conscious of consciousness we are not able to know what "Samadhi" is? Our scriptures speaks of "Purusha" beyond the unmanifested called "Prakriti" in Sankhya Philosophy.
Speaking on Purusha, Swami Vivekananda says, "The Purusha is neither mind nor matter the reflex from it is all that we know. We are sure if it is omnipresent it has neither death nor birth."
"Nature is casting her shadow upon it the shadow of birth and death, but it is by its nature pure".
Suppose in the dream we become conscious of dream world as 'Dream' and want to wake up, what can we do then? We will wait with tremendous preserver. As till date no one has been able to decipher the process of waking up from sleep. Amazingly we wake up in the morning, every morning and find the same world continuing. Coming to the point, if we realize that we are dreaming this great world we will do what ever is required in the dream to make our self awake. Sometimes it happens that the state is reached where one is conscious of this body in world but also continuous its existence in the dream world. Then the intense pain or happiness in dream world is made nonreactive by the conscious body state or partial awakening state. In 1896 while giving lectures at London about "The Absolute and Manifestation", Swami Vivekananda says, "Time, space, and causation are like the glass through which the Absolute is seen, and when It is seen on the lower side, It appears as the universe." The mind configures our world as time, space and causation and we make futile attempts to find permanent happiness in it. Unless the mind is transcended we are not able to know as we are without it i.e consciously conscious of consciousness. Below is the picture used by Swami Vivekananda to deliver the lecture mentioned.
Again Vivekananda in one of his lectures says that the world can never be made a better place it is like a dog tail. This play of world will go on and on until we wake up in our real individuality, the Individuality of infinite. Two rays of light form a single source illumines a small size ball and a big ball. if nature of size of ball is determined by point of view of ball, one is small and another is big! But from the point of view of light, it is the same light that is the cause of illumination of both of them or seen in them. In term of attributes of body qualities, one is small and another big but from the point of consciousness of infinite, it is the same consciousness that is illuminating everything from a small sub atomic particles to the Lord of Universe.
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