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     Ego - the reflection

      The dreaming state (Mind) is like the second state of the river, the subtle body of the river. There it becomes apparent, and it becomes apparent also in the wakeful state (body). You know, your wakeful state is like the state of the river when it is upon the plains, the gross body of the river. There the Sun shines clearly; it was shining clearly upon the glaciers, but it reflects its image only in the stream; in the muddy river is the image of the Sun seen; so in your wakeful state, the image of the Sun is also seen.

       This egoism—I do this, I do this, I am this, I am that, all this egoism—this selfish apparent self makes its appearance in the wakeful state also. But you see there is a difference in the ego of your dreamland and the ego of your wakeful state. In your dreamland the ego which has been to you as the reflection or shadow of the true Atman or God, is fickle, changeable, vague, unsettled, hazy; exactly as the reflection of the Sun in the stream when it is upon the mountains is vague, meandering, changeable; and in your wakeful state this ego is definite, permanent, as in slow stream, slow river, when it is flowing upon the plains.

Claims of the Ego

         The irony  is the reflection of the Sun take claims that it is the real Sun, and it was who that melted the glaciers and formed the streaming  mountains and now it is the one that is floating on this river. "I" "I" "Mine" is the way this Ego reflection uses the maximum. One's you realize your true Self, then you understand what a fool this Ego was, claiming all work to itself. The biggest foolishness was to think that it was floating on the river and it was part of the river. In reality it was not the river, its reflection just fell on the river. The Ego is mere a reflection and has no substance in reality.

        But this reflection does not want to away. The Ego does not like to think that it is a reflection. it tries all means to protects its false identity. To achieve this it makes all the concepts and tries to prove its reality. This is what we see in this world that is happening. It tries to establish its power in every means and moments of life.

References

1. Journey To The Source: Decoding Matrix Trilogy- Pradheep Chhalliyil  to read about this interesting book that describes consciousness and awareness more vividly.

2. In woods of God Realization - Swami Ram Tirtha

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The Ego

       The Sun which was shining upon the seed or causal body, the same Sun shines equally upon the subtle body of the river; and the same Sun which shines upon the seed body and subtle body of the river, shines equally upon the gross body of the river.

       The true Atman or real Self, which was seen shining upon the deep sleep state’s body shines also upon your dreamland and upon your wakeful state—upon the gross body, as it were, but where lies the difference? The difference lies in the reflection of the Sun. When the Sun was shining upon the seed body of the river, upon the glaciers, the image of the Sun was not seen there. The action of the Sun was intense upon the glaciers, but the reflection or image of the Sun was not seen; but when the Sun began to shine upon the subtle body of the river, the Sun is reflected. But hazy. But in the river in the third level ,the reflection of the Sun is very clear.

         This means in the gross physical body the reflection of the Consciousness is very clear in the form of awareness. This is obvious very much in the case of Awareness (Conditioned Consciousness) being co clear in the physical body. We can very much feel awareness in the physical body. We try using the brain and the nervous to have of all sorts of experiences. All experiences are really an attempt to being Awareness. But all experience culminates as bliss in awareness as the glittering glaciers in the Mountain tops.

      When the Sun was shining upon the subtle body of the river, there the Sun’s image was seen. No image of the Sun was seen upon the snow-capped peaks or upon the glaciers; but in the subtle body of the river, in the mountains, in the rivulets, is the image of the Sun seen. What does this image imply? This image in origin is the real Self, the true Atman, the Unchangeable, the Immutable in you, the true Divinity, Atman or God. (We use the word God for layman language for the term unconditioned Consciousness).

       The same God is present in you when you are in the deep sleep state, that God shines upon your seed body, but examine, in the deep sleep state (awareness), no egoism is present, you have no idea of ‘I am asleep’, ‘I grow’, ‘I digest the food’, ‘I do this’; that is, there is no ego; the real Self is there, but no ego is there. This false apparent ego which is looked upon as the self by people is not there.

      

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References

1. Journey To The Source: Decoding Matrix Trilogy- Pradheep Chhalliyil  to read about this interesting book that describes consciousness and awareness more vividly.

2. In woods of God Realization - Swami Ram Tirtha

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Mind and Awareness

                  The mind is the hazy reflection of the Sun on the streaming river in the second stage of river on the mountain. Remember this is the stage when the river picks us great momentum. This is the why our mind is so active. So awareness is the glittering reflection of the Sun on the glaciers. As we saw in the previous page, the sun's reflection on the glaciers is all over the region and like the awareness does look like have both the qualities of being localized as well as spread all over. Whereas the reflection of the Sun is more taking into shape but is hazy highly shaking, subtle ,when the stream of water gushes to flow down the mountain to the plains.

      The qualities of mind is described  in Sanskrit as "Chanchala"  which means that which is not firm, shakable, restless or wavering and "Asthira"  or unsteady—(Gita, VI, 26).  That is the very nature of the mind. Like the fast flowing stream of river in the mountains, the mind is very turbulent and flows with full momentum. The mind is never stable and wanders and takes twists and turns in  no time, like the meandering streams in the mountains.

     It is the Same Unconditioned Consciousness, that illuminates awareness and mind in us, like the same sun that shines and glitters the glaciers and also the same Sun reflected in the hazy form on the streaming and gushing meandering river. The beauty is that , the Sun is untouched on any of these events. It acts as thought it is just a witness of the whole act and not involved in any of these action, yet without Sun these events actions cannot happen either.

       Let us descend a little to the plains. Now in the plains we have different scenes. The same water, the same river we saw present in the seed form upon the snow-capped glaciers and which adopted a most fantastic and most poetic aspect in its subtle form lower down on the mountains, the same waters, the same river now becomes a muddy stream upon the plains. In the plains, the same river, the same Ganges river becomes a mighty stream. It has undergone a great change. It has put on new clothing, new colour; it does not keep its original transparency and its original limpidness; it becomes dirty, turbid and it becomes changed in colour. Muddy it becomes and at the same time it changes its speed. It becomes now slow, very slow, and on the other hand it becomes more useful now. Upon the surface of this mighty river float boats, float ships, traffic is carried on. People come and bathe, and the water of the great river now is utilized in canals and aqueducts for irrigating the lands and for fertilizing the country around.
        This third stage of the river’s life is the gross body of the river. And what about the life of the river? What about the real motive power of the river? The real motive power of the river is the Sun, the glorious Orb. Now let us apply this illustration to man.

Source: in woods of God Realization - Swami Ram Tirtha.

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     Sun's reflection in all 3 stages of the river

     It is the same Sun, the pure unconditioned Consciousness which is reflected in the water of the river at  all its three stages.  The reflected sun is Awareness. Awareness or conditioned Consciousness is the reflection of the pure Consciousness. Awareness is the phenomenon of the brain and nervous system but not Unconditioned Consciousness is independent of body phenomenon. Consciousness and awareness are like sunlight and its reflection respectively. Sunlight does not need any medium for its expression. It shines due to its own power, but it's reflection depends on a medium. Without a suitable medium the reflection of the sun cannot occur and the quality of reflection varies according to the reflecting medium.  The same way Consciousness is present every where, but is reflected as awareness wherever there is a medium (body). The best reflecting medium is the nervous system and the brain.

     Explaining Consciousness to be the phenomenon of brain is like someone arguing that Sun  comes out of river water. In reality, awareness is just the reflection of the unconditioned Consciousness. Modern neuro-science is confused with the real and un-real, the real sun and the reflected sun, the real pure Unconditioned Consciousness and reflected Conditioned consciousness, the awareness. That is why there is so much confusion in understanding consciousness in scientific community. And science cannot understand Consciousness by studying brain which is like trying to study sun by analyzing the reflection on water.

     Now let us go further to see how Sun's reflection are of three forms in the three stages of river.

Casual or Seed  Body

         In the seed body of the river, the Sun’s image is not seen. No image of the Sun is seen upon the snow-capped peaks or upon the glaciers; but in the subtle body of the river, in the mountains, in the rivulets, is the image of the Sun seen. The whole mountain cap glitters as it were the sun.

        This is the condition of our deep sleep state. Like the cold glittering glaciers lies all our impressions hidden there. All talents, all impressions, all tendencies, all knowledge resides in that state. It is the source of that we can think of. But in that state it is unexpressed by the unexpressed river in the snowy mountains. Yet that is the Source of the river. Deep sleep state is so enjoyable because we tap into our seed or causal body. We go to our Source. The deep sleep state is the state of pure awareness. While we are in waking state, we are in the awareness state for brief moments of our peak  happiness. This happens even when we  realize or relish our talents or when some commends on it.

         We will later discuss how individuals tap into this awareness state and discover, invent , create materialistic objects and artistic works. This is the source of all inspirations, creativity and creative intelligence.  This is the Source of Music, poetry, Engineering and also healing. Tapping into this source we can create wonders. But alas, no one takes any attention to go to the Source and get all the knowledge. We are wasting our time and satisfied with with small gift wrappers and not the real gift. We will also discuss this in greater length about tapping into this source and be the source of all knowledge and creativity. This is a topic that all adults as well as kids should know about. Knowing this your life changes into brief happiness to unbounded bliss. 

        Though we talk about the  awareness state as the source of all our talents, the Truth is that our real nature is not the glittering snow, but the Sun, the Soul or Atman or Brahman.

          The Sun's reflection in the subtle state of Mind and intellect , like the dream state is the second  state of the river. Read about the second phase in the next page. 

Source: in woods of God Realization - Swami Ram Tirtha.

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