The intelligent one probes beyond the appearance to see the Existence which is unison.
🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷
Chapter 4
Beyond the layers of existence
🌻 Day 32 🌻
We are all a combination of form and formless. Our body is form, the mind is formless. Similarly, the universe is form, Divinity is formless. Energy has no form but matter has form. The entire universe is a perfect combination of form and formless. You must have heard about the new theory of dark matter and dark energy. What physics says is that the space between the objects in the universe is much more powerful than the objects themselves. The space in between two objects is thick, is a substance as well. If the sun is round, it is because the space around it is full of energy that makes the sun round. Have you seen bubbles in the water? Why is the bubble round? Because there is water pressure around it and that makes a bubble round inside the water. Similarly, all the planets, all this celestial substances are spherical because the space around them is filled with dark energy, which is not visible but is much more powerful than the substance itself.
The mind, the Consciousness is much more powerful than the body. It is the existence of
Consciousness that makes the body grow in the womb, makes it move and function. The moment that Consciousness gets lifted from the body the body is dead; it is a corpse. So which is powerful – the body or the Consciousness? But what does the world think? Ignorant people think that the body is more powerful than Consciousness. The visible is more powerful than the invisible – this is the ignorant thinking. The knowledgeable know that the Consciousness is more powerful than the body.
One Consciousness is permeating the whole universe. The wise realise that the formless is permeating the form. The wise shift their attention from the individual mind to universal mind.
There are 3 layers – sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic knowledge. In the tamasic knowledge, there is no knowledge at all. The body is important; the mind has no place there. In rajasic knowledge, one thinks of different bodies and different tendencies as beings – “This is good man, this is bad lady,” etc; different feelings, different entities and different people. Seeing the difference is rajasic knowledge. Sattvic knowledge is- seeing the One Consciousness
functioning in various ways in various bodies. Isn’t that fantastic? It is One Consciousness which is expressing itself in various ways. When light passes from stained glass, instead of thinking, “that is a violet light, that’s red light, that’s yellow
light” – no doubt it is visible like that think that is one light. The intelligent one knows that it is one light which is reflecting in different ways. The intelligent one probes beyond the appearance to see the Existence which is unison.
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