Mind, Consciousness

... And The Reality.

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Like the body, mind too is an instrument, is governed by the cause and result rule.

It is important to note that though the two are instruments, the consciousness is never an instrument but the light accompanying all the activities of the body-mind complex. Just as there is this light behind and in the background of the mobile screen, handset or in a computer system. Though we could say the light is controlled by something else, the body, mind and the brain cannot have even the slightest hint (or idea?) what something might be there. 

All that happens to the body-mind-complex is known in the consciousness while it itself is not affected in any way. Could it be said that the consciousness, as the light behind in the background flickers, becomes strong or weak during the various activities that may happen to the body-mind-complex?

One can certainly arrive at this conclusion that what governs the whole functioning of the body-mind-complex is something such a thing that remains unaltered throughout.

Could this something may be called Reality

Or Rather, - the Immutable Reality ?

Though we can't know it's nature and the characteristics we can't deny or refute its existence.

We can also reason out that it is neither the activity nor inert, the idle inactivity of the kind. In the Vedantik parlance these three attributes are called रजस् rajas, तमस् tamas, and सत् sat respectively.

In Physics, the same three could be said to have analogy with energy, matter and light.

So these three attributes are the nature what in the Vedantik parlance is called the three guNa, the characteristics though themselves have no guiding principle 

The three attributes decide and control and regulate this whole functioning of the body, the mind and the consciousness and are the subtler, causal aspects only.

The Underlying Reality  as a principle, may be known and understood too, but may not be described satisfactorily well.

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