- Question:
Everything is Made up of Consciousness
Would like to understand this phenomena of Creation of everything out of Consciousness
Is consciousness moulded like mud to create forms, colours, thoughts, and feelings.
Or like Potter creating forms out of Consciousness but remaining separate from the it.
Does Consciousness lose its original nature when converted to things?
From colorless to colorful, formless to form, limitless to limited, nondual to multiplicity etc.
How can Consciousness retain its original nature while creating objects (with opposite characteristics) out of itself.
Sri Prabhuji:
Matter is the creativity of consciousness. Using creativity (imagination) matter is created. Imagination does not change anything in consciousness. World is a mere appearance in consciousness just like in your dream, dream world appears. Dream world does not affect the dreamer consciousness. Dream world is the imagination of dreamer consciousness projected as a world. Potter and pot concepts have duality. In case of consciousness and world there is no duality. It is similar to water and wave. Wave is the appearance of water. Wave does not change properties of water/does not affect it.
Student:
Thanks Sir,
1. Is the dream world created only out of Consciousness or some other factor like intelligence or memory is also required.
2. To form a wave, water is the principal content but waveform or some energy is also required to create a Wave.
3. How can Consciousness retain its original nature while creating objects (with characteristics opposite of itself) out of itself.
4. What impulse or factor leads the Non Dual Consciousness to Multiplicity and diversity, is it available in potential form in the non dual Consciousness before creation or imagination.
Sri Prabhuji:
1. Consciousness uses 3 powers – Ichcha shakti, Jnana Shakti & Kriya Shakti to project this universe. Intelligence, memory etc are all included in this powers.
2. Kriya shakti is energy.
3. Can water retain original nature while forming a wave? Is your original consciousness altered if you imagine something or dream?
4. Maya Shakti is the potential form of universe. Available to consciousness.
Student:
Actual in my question 3, I mean to ask, does Non-Dual, Unlimited and Formless Consciousness know about Limitations, Diversity and Forms which are completely opposite to its own nature.
Sri Prabhuji:
No. Non dual absolute reality does not know anything. However non-dual reality participating in the projection of Maya as Ishwara knows everything.
It is like person who is sleeping is not aware of dream going on because he is the dream. However the character in the dream seems to know the dream well.
Student: The dreamer without losing its original nature, imagines the dream world and dream character.
And knows the dream world as limited and diverse only through the window of dreamed character. By imagination the dreamer has become this dream without loosing its original nature of Sat Chit Ananda.
And by the illusion of thought assumes itself (not actually) as a limited character in the dream knowing and acting in a dream world, seperate from it.
Limitation and Diversity is from the vision of a dream Character and not the dream or dreamer’s vision.
Even the desire for Liberation is also by the dreamed character and not by the dreamer.
Sri Prabhuji: Yes
Student:
Can we say,
- Pure Awareness is full of Intelligence, Power and Creativity and not dumb as Shunya.
2. Nature of Brahman is Sat Chit Ananda, (Being, Knowing and InFinite). Then what are these Shaktis (Jnana, Ichcha and Kriya) to be considered as.
Sri Prabhuji:
We cannot say anything about Brahman. We can say Brahman as Lord Ishvara as Omniscient, omnipresent , Omnipotent.
Brahman+Maya = Ishvara. Shaktis are that of Ishvara