Misunderstanding of soul as God

[dattaswami]

Misunderstanding of soul as God

 

The whole tragedy is based on the investigation of the source of ‘I’. In the olden days the science was not developed and the subject of physiology in medical science was not existing in which neurology is a chapter. ‘I’ is just a feeling as good as any other feeling. All the feelings including ‘I’ constitute the subtle body which is a bundle of feelings or information. In deep sleep all these feelings are stored in a chip called as chittam. The awareness - current is absent in the computer. The information is exhibited only when the computer is associated with current. In deep sleep the current (awareness) is absent because the nervous system or battery is not functioning.

 

The state of meditation is a functioning battery associated with current but the computer is not connected and therefore the information is not exhibited. In death the battery is not functioning permanently and the current is not produced. The information chip (jeeva) also left the computer after the death. Now the computer is just the dead gross body without the chip and without the supply of current. When the person awakes from the deep sleep the battery is supplying the current and the information is connected so that all the information is exhibited. It is not necessary that everybody feels that he slept well. This feeling is generalized to every human being and therefore it is concluded that as soon as one awakes from the deep sleep the ‘I’ is rising up in the first instance. This imagines the false inference of the existence of the ‘I’ during deep sleep. You must note that several people remember very important information other than “I slept well”, as soon as they awake from the deep sleep

 

. If a human being goes into deep sleep after suffering a tragedy, as soon as the human being awakes from the deep sleep, it immediately remembers the tragedy only and not the feeling of happiness after the deep sleep. Even during the awakened state, the feeling of ‘I’ does not continuously exist while feeling or discussing several aspects. Even in the awakened state there is no continuous existence of the feeling of ‘I’. What is the use of your unnecessary effort of establishing the continuous existence of ‘I’ in the deep sleep through the inference? In the awakened state everything is established by direct experience and even in such a state the feeling of ‘I’ does not exist continuously. You are trying to establish the continuous existence of ‘I’ in deep sleep through inference in which direct experience is absent! In fact the feeling of ‘I’ and the strong feelings are recorded in the chip (chittam) during the deep sleep but during this state the awareness is absent. During this state of deep sleep the basis of ‘I’ and other strong feelings is only inert energy and not awareness. Hence, the source of the ‘I’ and other strong feelings is only the chip (chittam) in which the information is permanently recorded. The association of current with the chip is not permanent and therefore the source of ‘I’ is the chip (inert energy) and not the awareness (self) or current. However, if you consider the inert energy as the basic form of awareness, you can hold on the policy of constancy of self or awareness. If you limit the self as awareness only, the self is born daily and dies daily (Athachainam nityajatam… Gita). But if you consider the self as the basic inert energy also, the constancy of self can be accepted because the basic primary inert energy (mula maya) is eternal (Ajo nityah… Gita).

 

If you take the self as awareness only the constancy of self is lost. If you take the self as permanent awareness, the permanency is lost. You cannot have self as permanent awareness because in deep sleep the awareness is disappearing due to which only the state of deep sleep is full of ignorance. Either you have to sacrifice the single constant nature (awareness) of the self or permanency of the self. Since you are fixing the nature of the self as awareness, you cannot establish the existence of the same nature in deep sleep through inference. In the absence of this knowledge of neurology in the olden days, our ancestors should not be blamed as blind conservative believers. They tried their level best and made the hypothesis of the existence of the self in deep sleep also through inference. They were correct in their hypothesis because the self exists in the deep sleep also with a different nature, which is inertness and not awareness. They could succeed partially in imagining the constancy of the self in deep sleep and they failed only in finding out the alternative nature of the self, which is inertness. In absence of science they were unable to know the inter conversion of inert energy and awareness which was not their fault.

 

If the same ancestors exist today they will certainly appreciate the truth and modify their concept with open mind. Today you must be blamed as blind because even though the science has analyzed the whole concept, you are not accepting it due to your closed conservative blind mind clinging rigidly to their hypothesis, which was made in the absence of the science. The inter conversions of inert energy into awareness is well established by science because the oxygen supplied by the functioning respiratory system oxidizes the food digested by the digestive system and the oxidation reaction of the food releases the inert energy. This inert energy associated with the functioning nervous system releases awareness, which is a special work form of inert energy itself. This awareness-current associated with the chip of information stored in the functioning brain exhibits the experience of the past important information and also gives the experience of the events grasped from the external world. The advaita philosophy based on the investigations of the advaita philosophers is only a partial development of neurology which is a part of medical science and this cannot be called as spiritual knowledge because the unimaginable God is not at all touched anywhere. Even the concepts of the self were not completely established by them (which are now completely established by the present neurology) and such self is misunderstood as God, which in fact is not as clearly established by the present neurology. Therefore they have not touched even the boundaries of spiritual knowledge, because spiritual knowledge means the subject related to God.

 

 

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

 

Anil Antony

 

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