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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I SPOKE of consciousness
and dimensions of consciousness. What then is consciousness itself? Well, we
may begin by knowing what it is not, what is not consciousness. Not
consciousness means the absence of consciousness, otherwise unconsciousness.
You are conscious, conscious of things when you are aware, aware of their
presence; when you are not aware, when you do not perceive, you are
unconscious, you do not have consciousness. It is the difference between being
asleep and being awake. When you are asleep things are lost, you become unconscious
of them; when you are awake; things reappear and you are conscious of them. The
difference is analogous to the difference of night and day. Night in its
darkness swallows up things, annihilates them as it were, it is
unconsciousness. The day dawning brings forth the things and gives their normal
concrete form, tangible reality. It is consciousness. So we may say consciousness
is light, and unconsciousness darkness. Consciousness is creation –
unconsciousness annihilation.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
consciousness has two modes or status. First of all, when consciousness is the
consciousness of things, when one is conscious of the existence of objects,
this mode may be called objective consciousness, but consciousness may exist in
itself without reference to any object of consciousness; the light is there,
there is no object to illumine, it is self-luminous. This is consciousness in
its essence, its own reality.</p>

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essential consciousness is an unchanging reality existing everywhere in the
universe but it expresses itself in different modes and apparent <span
class=GramE>forms,</span> its essential quality does not change but acquires a
different <span class=SpellE>colour</span> and vibration in accordance with its
degree and level of expression. For example, the body has a consciousness,
life-force has a consciousness, mind has a </p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>consciousness</span>,
and the levels above the mind, each has a consciousness. All these types or
modes or, as I have said, dimensions of consciousness are essentially the same
consciousness. The vessels are different, their shape and <span class=SpellE>colour</span>
differ but they all hold as it were the same transparent, clear water. We all
know the different movements of light, seen and unseen; but however much they
differ in their vibration, all <span class=GramE>have</span> the same speed of
light. And it is always the same composition, as scientists have taught us a
light particle is a fusion of an electron and a positron; even so consciousness
is also <span class=GramE>an<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>invariable
entity.</span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Mother said of love the
same thing as I have been saying of consciousness. She says<span class=GramE>,</span>
there is only one love, the divine love and 'none other. There are various
expressions of that love according to the conditions in which it manifests, to
the degree or status of being but everywhere it is the same divine love behind
in essence. Because of inadequate expression it becomes blurred or faint and
muddy but the living fire is there below the ashes. You have simply to shake
off the outer coating to allow the inner reality to shine forth in its own
nature.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Love in the mind, love in the heart, love in
the vital, love in the physical, love human and animal are not negations of the
Divine love, it is not that you have to reject, cut off these so-called
inferior formulations of love, these do not necessarily deny or reject the
Divine love in their heart of hearts; even there in their true reality, glows
the pure Divine love. To reach the Divine love, to enjoy its divine <span
class=SpellE>a<i>nanda</i></span><i>, </i>it is not necessary to make a
bonfire of these earthly goods and go beyond into the transcendent. Even here
in this earthly mould the Divine love in its full purity can be established for
it is already there behind and needs only earnest evocation.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Consciousness
essentially is always and everywhere the same. Its own quality is unvarying but
in its expression there is growth and development, an increase in intensity and
amplitude. The light that your candle gives and the light that comes from the
sun are not different in quality but they differ in expression or
manifestation, because of the receptacle, the seat or abode of the light. The
Vedic fire was lighted on a sacred <span class=GramE>altar, that</span> is the
seat for the God from where to manifest himself. There was a regular ceremony
for the <span class=SpellE>prepara<span
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<span class=SpellE>of the seat (Barhi)
and the value and the success of the sacrifice depended largely on a proper
preparation of the seat. The seat, the basic status also indicates that there
is an ascending movement of the sacrifice. The sacrifice symbolises
consciousness and radiant energy, mounting and travelling
upward and forward; the progress or ascent of consciousness means bringing out
its inherent potential strength that is behind and within and placing it in
front as power of expression. As I have said, if consciousness in matter is
like a light of single candle power, on the level of life it becomes a light of
multiple candle power and in the mind this multiple power is again multiplied.
In this way the consciousness finally attains its solar incandescence on the
highest height of the being.</span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When
we speak of the dimensions of consciousness, it means these different levels or
status of ascending expression. They also form according to the mode of
expression each one a world of its own. We may compare the mounting
consciousness to a growing tree, it is the same sap-substance that appears at
the outset as a seed, then as the seed opens out and develops it appears or
throws up a stem or trunk and as it proceeds it throws up branches and higher
up leaves and then flowers and fruit. Apparently however different and diverse
these formulations, they are but expressions of the same sap-substance in the
original seed. Even so an original seed-consciousness is the basis and
essential reality of all the forms in the material universe.</p>

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must now be apparent that consciousness is not merely consciousness, simple
awareness, it is also power or energy. The Vedic word is <i>cit-<span
class=SpellE>tapas</span>, </i>consciousness-energy. It is one <span
class=SpellE>indivisible</span>, entity: consciousness is energy. It is not
however in the sense as when we say knowledge is power: It does not mean
consciousness <i>has </i>power or gives power, but consciousness <i>is </i>power.
The nearer analogy would be with light-energy. Light, we know today, thanks to
modern science, does not merely illumine, it <span class=SpellE>energises</span>,
<span class=SpellE>activises</span>, <span class=GramE>moves</span> things,
that is to say, matter and material objects. The ray of light, we know now, acts
even more effectively than the surgeon's knife. The inherent quality of light
is energy. This energy has been discovered to be electro-magnetic energy, a
photon (<span class=SpellE>unit-light</span> or light-unit) is, as we have said,
an electro-magnetic quantum.</p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText style='margin-top:0; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>In the same way consciousness is
also a vibration of energy. It is the self-impulsion of consciousness. This
impulsion need not always go out, cast or spread itself abroad in outward expressions
and <span class=GramE>activities,</span> it may be a stilled self-contained
impulsion. It is awareness pregnant with power. Consciousness is luminosity,
consciousness is energy, <span class=GramE>consciousness</span> is also
delight. It may be said the very soul of consciousness is <span class=GramE>a
happiness</span>, a gladness absolute and inviolate, the delight which is love
in its supreme mode.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Indeed,
in the final account, we come back to the supreme <i>mantra </i>formulating the
mystery of ultimate reality given by the ancients that we all know and repeat
so <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>often<i> – <span class=SpellE>sachchidananda</span>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Such
then is the ultimate Truth or Reality: there is the Being or pure Existence
with its norms or modes or functions or self-for<span class=SpellE>mulations</span>
as Consciousness-Force and as Delight. This triune entity is absolutely one and
the same. What exists declares the Vedic <span class=SpellE>Rishi</span>, is
one; it is called variously as Light and Infinity and Harmony and Delight.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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