Key Discoveries
- The emptiness, void, exists. This void or shunya is not really ’empty’. It, itself is ‘equilbrium energy’ & ‘consciousness’ & hence the ‘source of energy’ for matter.
- Matter exists. it undergoes transformation.
- The conscious entity or ‘Self’ exists. It is an non-physical atom. It has been named ‘jeevan’. The 'conscious jeevan' is permanent, eternal and not subject to structural change, hence indestructible & immortal..
- The immortal conscious 'Jeevan' is the one that transmigrates. It it is the one that realizes, knows, remembers, analyses, discriminates and undergoes experiences. These various faculties are inseparable from one another.
- Every human is a combined form of this ‘conscious-atom’- ‘jeevan’ & the material body. The brain is a part of the material body and not the conscious jeevan.
- Entire Existence is the infinite, inseparable coexistence of material & conscious nature in the pervasive void/emptiness. This itself is Coexistence.
- There is progressive awakening in the faculties in the conscious atom to different dimensions of reality.
- Internal Conflict arising from delusion & illusion in the conscious Self itself is the cause of human suffering & problems. This is due to partial-functioning in the conscious activities.
- The full ‘awakening‘ of all faculties in the conscious atom (jeevan) results in fulfillment in the conscious self & in human living.
- Nature is in intrinsic Order. Existence is Stable. Progress & evolution (in matter) and awakening (in conscious atom) are definite.
- I.e. The conscious atom (jeevan) itself has illusion about reality. It hence experiences unhappiness, conflict, discontentment, bondage and disorder ‘within’ & as an individual, in family, society & nation-states. The conscious atom (jeevan) itself becomes awakened to reality, experiencing order, happiness, contentment & freedom ‘within’, thus expressing & enabling order ‘outside’ as individuals, families, society & nation-states.
- The human purpose is to understand the above, behold this knowledge and live expressing this Order.
What the world consists of.
The world/ or nature consists of physical activity, chemical activity & conscious (jeevan) activity saturated in an all pervasive void, or space. These activities combine & evolve spontaneously to form matter, plants (bio), animals and humans.
This seeming ‘void’ is not empty, but energy in equilibrium – manifested in matter as the energy we know and in the conscious (ourselves) as consciousness.
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 humans 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 development, assumptions 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.
Happiness & Sadness.
We are ‘happy’ when there is a synergy or harmony in the faculties in ‘our conscious self’ &’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.
Our purpose of life is to have consciousness development to human consciousness – via knowledge of existence, self and humane conduct and live accordingly- expressing this understanding in relationship with human beings as mutually fulfilling behavior and with the rest of nature, maintaining its inherent balance. Having this ‘knowledge’, we become free of illusion & our mental and behavioral imperfections, and have ‘resolution’. We live with answers to the why? and how? of everything. Having and living in this state of ‘resolution’ or samadhan itself is happiness & peace. Knowledge & happiness is the fundamental human need.
Reasons for our current problems.
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. 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 live 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.
Metaphysics, Physics & Neuroscience.
This understanding proposes answers to issues such as: the mind – body problem, nature of consciousness, its origins,. various planes of cognition, awakening and methods for the same, fundamental source of energy and consciousness in the universe, the relationship between matter, space & time, the issue of the ‘observer’ or ‘knower’, and the relationship between consciousness & the brain.
Philosophy, Spirituality & past darsanas.
Due to this understanding of reality as it is, it becomes possible to resolve or precisely understand the following:
- Provides a new resolution to key concepts & dichotomies in Eastern/Indian traditions of enquiry such as: brahm-maya-avidya. cit, acit, chaitanya, chetna ,brahman & isvara. Demystifies terms such as bhakti, yoga and jnana. Precisely defines gyana, viveka, vigyana, anubhava and vairagya & jivana-mukta, mukti & moksha. Sukha, dukha and kaivalya.
- Philosophically it addresses the issues of: free will, imagination, ego, sub-conscious, human purpose, god, creator, sustain-er, etc.
- Madhyasth Darshan does not draw from any past source for these explanations, rather re-defines the meaning and import of these words – based on direct realization.
Psychology, Sociology & Human behavior.
Since we can understand the human conscious precisely, it becomes possible to trace & explain every known human behavior & tendency to an activity in the conscious self, jeevan. We can thus explain why humans have behaved in the ways in which we have, and why we currently have varied levels of cognition or awareness and varying behavior and different concepts of right & wrong. The waking, dreaming and deep sleep states can be understood, as well as an awakened state of living in ‘human-consciousness’. Hence, we can understand the reasons for our personal, inter-personal (relationship), social-economic & ecological problems. We can also have a concrete plan or way to resolve them.
Education
'Who' is being educated now becomes clear!
'Why Education' also becomes clear.
Since the purpose & role of human life based on consciousness is now clear, the content, aims & process of Education shall entirely change. Today, our focus is largely on literacy, analytical capability & job or business skills which are occupation focused. Whereas, the role of education needs to be wholesome, communicate the need for consciousness development and enable value education to attain every humans universal purpose.
Culture & Civility.
We assume today ‘human culture’ to be the the ways of expression of food, clothing, shelter, customs and festivals. However, these are each based on various sectarian tendencies such as caste, religion, class, ethnicity, etc. A Universal understanding of Human culture means the above shall be celebrated synchronous with universal human goals. The objectives of Humane Culture, festivals, etc thus become to enhance, encourage and establish humane sanskars based on the reality of Coexistence & Human Consciousness. Their ways of expression, can be different, as they are today.
Civility today is seen as adhering to local, state & national norms and regulations. In many parts of the world these are tied to sectarian religious, ideological, ethnic beliefs. On understanding the reality of an Undivided Human Society based on human consciousness, the role of Civility thus becomes to express & maintain Universal Human Order.