What it implies for us

Who made the world.

There is no external cause to the way the Universe/ Reality/Existence is. The cause of Existence/the Universe is in Existence/the Universe itself. Existence is not in ‘chaos’. It has intrinsic order, it is in Harmony. Existence/the Universe is thus “every-actively or always present”. There is no ‘beginning’ or ‘end’. Any beginning or end we perceive is due to the limited space & time in which we are observing.

Space is omnipresent & energy in equilibrium and can hence be named  the ‘Almighty’. This ‘Almighty’ does not ‘know’, or ‘do’ anything. We can only understand ‘it’. Space is not creating ‘matter’. So fundamentally, nothing is ‘created’, only ‘transformed’ – from atoms to molecules to plants, animals and humans. There is thus no evidence in reality of a ‘creator’, ‘sustainer’, ‘director’ or ‘destroyer’ – personal or impersonal.

Existence/the Universe is self formed and self regulated. It has definite laws and direction.  We human beings understand nature/reality using our faculty of imagination, can impact it in many ways and also reap the fruits of our actions. The human being alone is the ‘seer’, ‘doer’ & ‘experiencer’. No other entity is ‘creating’, ‘controlling’ or ‘seeing’ us.

Who & How we are.

We are conscious beings, a product of evolution & development in Existence. ‘We’ are not just the ‘brain’. ‘We’ are conscious units or beings that have a definitive set of faculties. These faculties are the same for every human: from a baby to an old person. All our activities like: desiring, visualizing, thinking, using logic, experiencing emotions, enjoying various tastes, take place in the conscious unit (jeevan) in conjunction with the brain. Which is it why it currently feels like it is taking place in the brain. Consciousness thus is not in the brain, neither does it arise from the brain – it exists by itself, and coexists with the brain & the body in the form of a ‘human being’. The conscious unit, jeevan depends on the brain and bodily senses for external stimuli and also expresses itself via these.

Birth & Death.

‘Birth’ is the association of the conscious self (jeevan) with the material body and ‘death’ is its disassociation due to a breakdown in the material body. The body is ‘living’ where the cells ‘breathe’ and there is growth, just as in plants. There is also decay of the body, just as in plants. Thus, when a human ‘dies’ – two things happen: the body ceases to ‘breathe’ & consequently the conscious self, jeevan dissociates itself from that body. It remains as-is on disassociation, until it starts this association in a new womb around the 6th month of human pregnancy, thus starting a new life with a new identity. The reason we don’t remember any of this is because of our partial state of awareness – just as we don’t recollect a dream later on, however vivid it may have been when we were having it.

Why we are different.

All of us have various sets of assumptions, content and tendencies in the activities in the conscious self. The reason this is so is due to a) varying environments, b) differing past ‘latent impressions’ and hence c) varying efforts at understanding/cognition. This makes up our persona and our intellectual & behavioral abilities. Our bodies are also similarly constructed but different. This is why we have differing physical abilities be it as strength or in sports.

Happiness & Sadness.

We are ‘happy’ when there is a synergy or harmony in us &  ‘unhappy’ when we have conflict or strife. The source of our pleasure or pain could be external sensory stimuli via sound, light, touch, smell & sight that take place in our material bodies. The source of happiness or unhappiness is harmonious or conflicting visioning, thoughts, emotions and expectations in our conscious selves or jeevan.

Purpose of Human life.

The problem today.

Most of us have assumed we are only the body, and the world is only material.  Some of us assume the world is only conscious and the material world is ephemeral. Both these viewpoints are due to usage of only partial cognitive faculties in our conscious selves. Hence we have many animal-like tendencies focused on food, sleep, fear & coitus, which are attained by means of wretchedness, cunningness and cruelty. This consequently results in profit mania, sex mania and consumption mania which we are witness to on an increasing scale today. There is a wide variety of human beings we encounter based on these combinations. Because we don’t understand ourselves, we don’t understand other people, and hence have problems in relationship. We thus end up wounding and exploiting humans and nature.  While we behave in this manner, it is not acceptable to us. All this is due to living in ‘animal-consciousness’. We yearn for something humane, and that is ‘human-consciousness’.

The solution – how every person can be humane.

By using all faculties in our conscious selves or jeevan, we have complete understanding about ourselves and the world and live with humane values such as steadfastness, courage, generosity, compassion, & benevolence. This is possible via having knowledge, via humanization of education for every  human being. We can all living fulfilling personal, familial, social and ecological lives. This is because Existence is Coexistence. And this is the ultimate Truth.

How we can live.

Each human can live with intellectual resolution (understanding) & material prosperity (boudhik samadhan, bhoutik samriddhi). We can live fulfilling family and social lives. Relationships such as father & son, husband & wife, brother-sister & friend, colleague and teacher can be understood while values or feelings such as trust, respect, affection, care, gratitude & love can be expressed and fulfilled. Human relationships are thus not a ‘mystery’. We can work towards a humane society in way that sustains and enriches nature, of which we are a part.

Universal Human religion (dharma) is One = resolution = happiness = based on understanding or knowledge in the conscious self and Human Race is One – based on similar anatomy of the body. This becomes the basis for an undivided human society. 

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