Science of Self v. Science of the Universe

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Thank you Sri Nairji. Your message along with other recent ones made me

reflect the following and I will pass this on to a as well.

 

It seems that the Science of Self requires a different approach than the

Science involved in discovering the complexities of the Universe. Both

sciences rely on consciousness, attention, and awareness as instruments to

attain some type of knowledge.

 

Sciences involving the discoveries of the Universe focus the attention

outside to perceived objects (time, space, matter, laws of motion, gravity,

mass, etc.). Science of Self, however, is a totally radical departure. Here

the attention, consciousness, or awareness itself becomes the center of

attention. It is not focused anywhere other than itself.

 

When attention and awareness are focused on objects of perceptions, the

relationships between those objects according to universal laws become

clear. But the relationship between the subject and the object cannot be

determined due to the difficulty of separating the subject and object (even

by some super subject - God). When attention/awareness become self-focused,

that is called self-inquiry. When attention lights up attention, awareness

lights up awareness, consciousness lights up consciousness, Self is Realized

as Sat-Chit-Ananda, the Ultimate Subject that swallows up Space, Time,

Universal Laws, and all the Universes.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

 

 

 

madathilnair [madathilnair]

 

 

Dear Harshaji,

 

I have added my two cents worth in parenthesis. It is not mine

actually. It is everyone's as I am quoting Eesaavaasyopanishad (from

memory and unintelligibly so):

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[Thadaijathi, thannaijathi, thaddoore, thadanthike, thadantharasya

sarvasya, thadusarvasyaasya baahyatha]

(My translation: That comes, That goes, That is away, That is near,

That is inside everything and That is also outside everything.)

(My comment: Space is negated. One can't help being at where one

started from! One is afterall Everywhereness!).

 

 

 

Pranaams.

 

Madathil Nair

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