Likening human awareness to a grinding machine

[dattaseva]

The feeling of ‘I’ is a pulse like any other feeling. This ‘I’ represents the total human body. In the state of deep sleep, mind and intelligence do not exist since both are work forms of energy. Even though the pulses/feelings exist in the storage facility (memory) of the brain, they remain in their original nature, which is inertia.

When these pulses are associated with the work of the functioning nervous system, you call the resultant work as awareness. Therefore, awareness can be defined as the work of the nervous system involving the interaction of pulses or feelings.

When there is no interaction of these pulses, the nervous system may still function and it looks like a grinding machine at work, but without any grains in it. Such a state is known as pure awareness, and this is the state of transcendental meditation.

In this state of meditation, the grinding work of the grinding machine takes place, but without the grains to be ground. The awareness without any thoughts or feelings is known as pure awareness.

In deep sleep, the grains or feelings are stored in the overhead tank (as inert pulses) of the grinding machine, which is in this case, the brain. The static grains in the overhead tank are the inert pulses present in the storage facility during the state of deep sleep.

In the awakened state, these grains move into the grinding machine and the grinding work goes on as usual. Even without the grains, the grinding work may go on; that is to say, the machine simply functions. Similarly, in the state of meditation, the awareness exists without feelings.

In deep sleep, the machine does not work and the grains remain as static inert pulses. This means that in deep sleep, awareness is absent and the feelings are in the form of static inert pulses.

Pure awareness is different from its causal form. The basic (causal) form of the grinding work is electrical energy. Similarly, the basic form of awareness is inert cosmic energy.

In deep sleep, this inert energy does not enter the neural pathways of the brain associated with consciousness. This energy is either stored in the human body or functions as other forms of work of different systems like the lungs, heart, etc.

When the grinding machine stops, the electricity is present either in the battery or in other forms of work existing in other functioning machines. There’s a difference between the pure form of awareness and the basic (causal) form of awareness, and you should not mistake one for other.

The pure form of awareness is the work form of a functioning nervous system without feelings, as seen in the state of meditation. The basic form of awareness is the inert energy present elsewhere in the body; as observed, the neural pathways associated with consciousness do not function in deep sleep.

Pure awareness exists in the human being during the state of meditation. Impure awareness exists in the human being during the normal awakened state. The basic form of awareness exists in the human being during deep sleep.

Therefore, awareness is only a special work form of inert energy existing in the functioning nervous system.

This work depends upon the availability of inert energy that is generated from food by oxidation with the help of respiratory and digestive systems. This work also depends upon the functioning condition of the nervous system.

Thus, awareness in human beings is a work form depending upon several systems.

Generally, any kind of work is not an independent entity and depends upon the system. Awareness is the process of knowing, which is merely the work of the functioning nervous system.

Awareness is not an independent entity; it only looks like an independent subject. ‘Walk’ or ‘talk’ are similar subjects that are also different kinds of work; talk refers to the process of talking while walk pertains to the process of walking. Hence, awareness, talk, walk, etc. look like independent subjects, but upon analysis, they are found to be only work forms depending upon the conditions of several systems.

If you say God is awareness, then even God becomes dependent on certain systems. The awareness of a human being is born in the awakened state and dies during during deep sleep (Athachainam…); it depends on the functioning condition of the nervous, respiratory and digestive systems.

When you speak about the awareness of God, it is also the work of God and is not an independent entity. The unimaginable God does not require these systems for the generation of awareness; the awareness is simply generated in an unimaginable manner.

The generated awareness of God is the same awareness of a human being in a qualitative way. The awareness of the omniscient God is aware of all the things in an unimaginable way, whereas the awareness of a human being is aware of only a few things in a completely imaginable manner. This is just a quantitative difference and not a qualitative difference.

The cause of God’s awareness is unimaginable, which is the unimaginable God, but God’s awareness itself is an imaginable item.

The gold produced from a metallurgical furnace is the same gold generated by a miracle from space. Only the process of generation and the cause of generation differ, but not the generated product. In both the cases, gold is one and the same imaginable item, which is the generated product.

The process along with the cause of generation in a miracle is unimaginable, and the same in the case of a furnace is imaginable. Similarly, the unimaginable awareness of God just means that the process of generation along with its cause is unimaginable, but the generated awareness is an imaginable item.