> claudiouk wrote: > > "constantly crossing and recrossing the gap of ignorance" > might imply therefore that something is lacking in UNITY? > Never saw the sense of the purpose of life as > "expansion of happiness" by going into ignorance.. > if the happiness is in the return to Unity, > why wander off in the first place??
Maharishi discusses this very point (abstractly) in his recent commentary on the cognition of Madhuchandas: 'Immediately what Madhuchandas saw when he saw -- one is two. What he saw? One is not only two, but there is a third element. What came to the sight of Madhuchandas? He saw something that was hidden from view. The two were hidden from view. They were existing in the 'A', in the flow, but not known. 'Now he saw silence and dynamism at the same time. At the same time he saw the third value which was hiding 'I' from 'A', and hiding 'A' from 'I' -- those two values, silence and dynamism. One was hiding the other. 'So when he saw 'I' is unfolding 'A', bringing 'A' to consciousness, to awareness, so 'A' comes to awareness which was hidden so far, and 'I' comes to awareness which was hidden so far. So when the two come to awareness then the hiding, the cover also comes to awareness. So the cover is uncovered. 'So he saw not only silence and dynamism but he saw that the covering of silence and dynamism is over, so the third element he also saw. He saw the Chandas. So Rishi, Devata, and Chandas. 'A' stands as a unified wholeness of Rishi, Devata, Chandas. 'This is how step by step, through sequential steps, unfoldment of diversity commences ... 'To know what variety is, we have to know Unity and we have to know how Unity is composed as Unity of many values, and that we know when we are able to take out the units of variety and put them back in Unity again. 'So both diversification and unification ... selections snipped from "First Seer of the Veda" at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/138961
