Friends, both the beingness of physical world and its non-beingness do not exist. Man gives existence to both. World beingness or jagatbhaav is an undivided part of Purush. Hence, Jagat-Abhaav or world’s non-beingness also proved to be a part of Purush. Of course, much smaller than Bhaav. If we call Jagat-Bhaav an undivided part of Purush, then there is no problem in calling Abhaav an undivided part of Prakriti. With knowledge and sadhana, man can become Purna Purush, but how will he become Purna Prakriti? Purna Purush exists, but Purna Prakriti does not exist. By the way, even the complete Jagatbhaav does not exist. Meaning, only partial Jagatbhaav can exist. This is because Jagatbhaav gets its existence from the experience of the living beings. And there is no such living being that can experience the complete Jagatbhaav together. All the living beings of the universe cannot do this even together. Similarly, the existence of complete Jagat-Abhaav i.e. Prakriti is also not possible. This means that though the entire world of existence and the entire world of absence have a physical existence, they do not have a soul and no living being experiences them.
Because Purusha never gets destroyed, therefore it does not have an absence. This means that the shadow of Purusha cannot be formed. Shadow is actually called absence. The shadow of a tree is actually not of the tree but of light rays. The shadow of the tree is considered to be in the area where there is an absence of light rays. Similarly, the shadow that is formed by the world is formed by the absence of Purusha offcourse virtual absence. This means that the world is like a tree and Purusha is like the Sun. Similarly, the shadow of the entire creation is Prakriti, Purusha has nothing to do with it. The absence of the entire world will be called mool prakriti. Because the entire world is also an undivided part of Purusha, That is why in practice the original nature aka mool prakriti is called the shadow of Purusha. The shadow-like absence created by Laghu, that is, the individual or the small world, will be called Laghu or the individual or the small prakriti. This means that only the individual world gets experiential existence and not the collective world. Although both have a physical existence.
Prakriti cannot directly reach the purusha. It has to climb up gradually through the purusha elements. Therefore, it keeps on increasing the undivided purusha element gradually. The smallest organisms like bacteria etc. do not have any Purusha element. But this is the first step of the body-like ladder that produces the purusha element. Then in organisms like frog, fish etc., the soul that had once become Prakriti starts feeling the purusha element. In creatures like dog, monkey, this element increases considerably. In man, this element is at the highest level. From this level, Prakriti can directly jump to the purusha through kundalini yoga. This means that a body more developed than the human body is not required. In this case, Superman etc. seem to be mythical concepts, which do not seem to have any special purpose.
We can never experience the gross world directly. Neither its presence nor its absence. We can only feel the subtle picture of the gross world that is formed on our soul. We feel the picture of the beingness of the gross world in the form of various objects like mountain, river, sun etc. We feel the non-beingness of these substances in the form of darkness. It is the subtle form of darkness. But its gross form also exists outside, just as the gross form of the subtle world experienced in the soul is in the form of the gross world outside. That gross darkness is probably called dark energy, dark matter etc.
Like the physical body, the physical world also has a life limit. Just as the body dies when it touches that limit, similarly the world also perishes when its life span is over. The gross body merges into the vyashti or individual prakriti in the form of the subtle body. The gross world merges into the collective or samashti prakriti i.e. the mool prakriti with names like dark energy and dark matter. A new body is born again from that subtle body. Similarly, a new world is also born from the mool prakriti. This trend continues cyclically for ever.
Many people say that this world originated from the Supreme Soul. In reality, nothing is born from Purusha. He is absolutely unattached. He is amazing and unique. Yes, the world gets experiential existence from his proximity. World is eternal and infinite like the purusha. The difference here is that the purusha always remains perfect and unchanging, while the world keeps changing. The world is sometimes in the form of beingness and sometimes in the form of non-beingness. It has countless levels of expression in the form of beingness and also countless levels of expression in the form of non-beingness. This world is called prakriti. When it gets proximity to the purusha, then it comes within the realm of experience, otherwise it keeps moving without experience, as if a dancer is dancing in the darkness. That is why it is said that the entire world that can be experienced is created with the cooperation of prakriti and purusha.
Similarly people say that children come from God and hence are the visible form of God. As soon as a man is born, he starts feeling the pictures of the world in his mind. They can be felt in the mind only if they are already present in the subtle body of the child, otherwise those pictures will definitely be formed but no one will feel them. What is meant to say is that those luminous pictures can be formed only on the subtle body of darkness. If the soul of a child is in the form of a luminous purusha instead of a dark subtle body, then how can luminous pictures be made on it? Sketches cannot be made with light on a luminous wall. First, the wall has to be made black or dark. Yes, it is definitely true that children are closest to God, because they have very little feeling of ego.
Prakriti keeps manifesting and unmanifesting. This is an eternal cycle. Purusha has nothing to do with it. It is a stable, eternal and conscious element. Prakriti gets power and motion with its proximity, just like iron gets power and motion with its proximity to a magnet. Unmanifest prakriti can be called dark matter. Dark matter has only gravity, nothing else. This means that dark matter exists and even does not exist. It “does not exist” because it does not have any characteristic of an existing object. It cannot be seen, heard or touched. It is not within the reach of the senses. It “exists” because it has gravitational force. Gravitational force is also a common or small characteristic of beingness or existence. That is why it is said that the words of so and so have weight or gravity. This means that the words of so and so have practical existence. Dark energy can also be the mool prakriti. This too is indescribable like dark matter and original nature aka mool prakriti . It “is not” because it has no characteristics of a physical object. It “is” because it produces an effect like energy. So it is possible that both are the same thing. The existence of a thing is also associated with its effect. Existence is incomplete without effect. If a hard rock cannot cause injury, then there is no point in the existence of that rock. Dark matter is like that hard rock, and dark energy is the injury caused by it, which is pushing the universe outwards. Just as a rock lying in a river can stop a flowing man, and can also carry a man away with it, in the same way the original nature can bind all the celestial bodies together by behaving like dark matter, and can also push them away from each other by behaving like dark energy. The darkness of the mind of a common man is like dark matter, which pulls and binds his world towards itself. But the darkness of the mind of a Kundalini Yogi behaves like dark energy, which keeps trying to push his world out of itself. That world then comes out and keeps re-emerging in his mind, and keeps merging into the luminous soul. A balanced man has the balanced ratio of dark matter and dark energy just as in the outside stable universe.
In this sense, the creation of man’s mind should also be swinging between the expressed and the unexpressed, since time immemorial. Meaning, man’s bondage should be eternal. We will analyze this in the next post.
Demystifying Kundalini 