3 I / Atles.

GOD, WORLD and Consciousness.

Could we possibly define what we may call -  God?

The World and the Consciousness are the obvious Realities and need not be defined. However, the God is always so uncertain and such a concept that one could only think of but never know if it exists really an essential Principle or is but a fictitious idea only in the mind.

Mind is consciousness, Or we could also say consciousness is mind as well.

The world is a continuity of experiences and perceptions in the consciousness.

The World and the consciousness are neither mutually different and distinct nor other than the perceptions.

Out of these Two principles, namely the World and the consciousness, emerges out the assumption of quite another an entity that is called the God.

Finding out, Exploring and Discovering the Underlying Essential Principle that is the Timeless and Ever Existent Truth implies there is consciousness where-in the Existence appears to be something like the World and all the Perception.

So God could easily be ruled out from this consideration.

Only because of the assumption and the erroneous idea of the "self" associated with the non-dual consciousness that is the only ignorance.

What is understood by this word - the Ignorance too is again only a name or a verbal situation and never a happening that could really be felt or experienced.

Ignorance as such is therefore only an abstract notion that becomes kind of a belief.

Even if there is something which or someone Who might be called God, a Superior Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent consciousness that is said to create, to maintain and ultimately to annihilate its creation, that may not be different and distinct other than this World and the consciousness. We can perhaps say this is the only Non-Dual Reality. It could therefore neither be a Superior nor inferior to the All That Is, is seen, known, and is experienced. We could further extend It to a so-called a Beginningless Time and an expanse in terms of limitless Space. 

In conclusion, no distinction any as the object and the subject in this perception of God and the "self " could be there. If this could be agreed upon, there is also neither the independent "Action" - the "Karma", nor a virtue or a sin and the consequences. But as soon as "self" is given reality, at once the idea of the one "Who" is supposed to perform such an  "Action" and has to experience, and go through the consequences assumes an apparent existence. This is verily the "Bondage" and has neither a beginning nor an end in sight. Though one may go on trying there is no release whatever.

तपस्विभ्योधिको योगी ज्ञानिभ्योऽपि मतोऽधिकः।

कर्मिभ्योश्चाधिको योगी तस्माद्योगी भवार्जुन।।४६।।

(गीता अध्याय ६, Shrimadbhagvad-gita 6/46)

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Ants at work.

The Spontaneity of the Moment,

and The Layers of Ignorance.

Observation is the spontaneous nature of the Observer. 

The manifestation begins with this split in the consciousness. With the split, Time and Space together appear to exist as the Observed , while the  consciousness thus split is the Silent Observer and also as an Observer of the manifest observed. This virtual split is then reflected within any sentient physical body and the individual as an existence independent in a world assumes the form of a "person".

As soon as all this has taken place, the consciousness as the Observer within a certain physical and sentient form, Life  happens, though it always existed even before this split in consciousness could take place. Because Time and Space were the one and the same "Known" and "The Observed", the person, or the individual was a temporary phase of the moment,  a Spontaneity only. 

While observing an ant, it looks though the ant may have perhaps the sense of smell, touch and taste, it lacks the sense of sight and hearing. In comparision of an ant, there are various other insects who have the sense of a well developed sight and hearing which enables them equipped better to face the challenges of life moment to moment. They can escape or avoid as soon as they feel there is any danger to their being and respond to it, while the ants often fail until felt through the sense of tough, smell or the taste.

Accordingly all living beings haveless or more a sense of cognisance too but more evolved have a better developed memory of the "experiences" they go through in the process of living the life. They could therefore imagine something like a past and an associated information / memory that is but there because of this assumed "past". The past is therefore the memory and conversely the memory is the name of this said past. It is thus a mechanism only and the mechanism functions in its own independent way.

This mechanism is thus independent of the apparent and the assumed Time and Space in the memory / the said past.

However in a more evolved an animal or any living being, a structured memory is there, in the form of a record, as a kind of an audio-visual information stored up in its brain. Though there may be a slight hint of Time and a Future, it's hardly as vivid as in the case of so-called the most evolved species like the humans. And just because as the humans have developed kind of an easy or a complicated way of expressing and communicating through this instrument which we call Language, they can store up the past / information regarding their experiences in this kind or format, they tend to believe they are better equipped to face and to respond the challenges of life. Wonderful, this can sure help them in living comfortably the life, but the moment they think about the wants and needs, of the desires and the  fears in the anticipated future, they're at a loss because though they can imagine the future, can hardly "Sense" the same. They can speculate like a less-developed animal through memory but can never have a "vision" about and of the same in the present moment, While it's only the present moment that inevitably forces them to think accordingly and to behave or act so. In other words, we are Blind  to the future but cover up our blindness under the name of "Knowledge" stored up in the form of the information or the memory. Moreover, We are also Blind to our Blindness. Our blindness consists of the false pride of the verbal knowledge that we have developed  in a system of information. This Knowledge so acquired causes even more anxiety, apprehension and fear of the unknown, anticipated imaginary "future" that though we can never see nor perceive at all. Again, we are also Blind to the reality that this anxiety too is a phase only, repeatedly arising and disappearing in our mind, because the Mind itself is a composite of Knowledge and consciousness. 

Mind is not only the "knowledge", or the "observed" but is also the "Observer", the underlying consciousness,"conscious" of itself.

Mind  is such an incomprehensible and strange Reality comprising of both the dead matter / the material object as well as the Life - the Live Awareness also.

Driven by sheer memory / knowledge / information, the mental construct, our hopes, desires and fears, born out of our imagination only, we constantly create our own conflicts, misery all the time.

The Spontaneous Moment, devoid of all so-called past and future however never inflicts upon us all this strife, agony and the anxiety.

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Boredom

"Boredom can be interesting"
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(Continued, ...;) )
There is a state of mind which, when experienced though nameless, is given this name 'Boredom', and we think we understood this phenomenon that we have named 'Boredom'. Obviously, as J.Krishnamurti has repeatedly said:
'The description is not the described'.
And that is the point, where we fail to see that the state 'Boredom' and the word 'Boredom' have nothing in common. While the word is uttered either aloud or in thought, the actual state of mind may not be that which one tries to express through this word.
As soon as the experience is experienced, it is replaced by the word. But if we don't hurry to name it, we can see an altogether different transformation in consciousness that happens on its own, without our attempt to bring in it.
If the attention is not identified with the word, it at once stands still. Its not a movement inward or outward, rather it is a movement in silence and awareness (of being).
If we miss this point, the attention soon gets lost in any other mental activity associated with thought and memory. For example, we find out an alternative, an option, there-by affirming and giving continuity to our-self (the ego?) which is also a false notion only that appears a 'real thing' like 'Boredom'.
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A Friends' Comment :
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"If the attention is not identified with the word, it at once stands still. Its not a movement inward or outward, rather it is a movement in silence and awareness (of being)." 
Thanks Prabhu I got the key of connection of sensitivity and consciousness.
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