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0. The Supreme Being, also called the Supreme Soul, the Supreme Sovereign, or God, is one only, infinite, omnipresent entity that does neither die nor is born, one that permeates through all types of creation and, yet, retains its pure state transcending all of these. He cannot be perceived by any of our outer or inner organs – five organs of action (hands, legs, mouth, and two excretory organs), five sensory organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin) and four internal organs namely, mind, intellect, chitta and ego.
1,2,3,4. All creation has evolved out of (and within) the Supreme Being or God and could be broadly divided into two types
– i) ‘Jad’ or inert or non-conscious or perishable creation and ii) ‘Chetan’ or conscious or imperishable or eternal creation. The perishable or ephemeral creation can be further sub-divided into four levels of creation namely, ‘Sthûla’ (gross), ‘Sûkshma’ (astral or subtle) ‘Kâran’ or Causal and ‘Mahâkâran’ (Supra-causal) creations. The perishable or ephemeral creation is classified as ‘Jad’ or non-conscious because it does not possess consciousness of its own but is rather made to act like one by some other immanent conscious entity. Were that conscious current to withdraw itself from any specific portion of non-conscious creation, that part would be dissolved and would cease to exist. Beyond the Perishable creation lies the ‘Chetan’/ ‘Kaivalya’ or Conscious/ Imperishable/ eternal creation that is variously known as ‘Hiranyagarbha’ (Golden Womb), ‘Satlok’ (True World) or ‘Sachkhand’ (True or Eternal Realm). This realm lies closest to, being in direct contact with, the Supreme Being. Having directly sprung from Him, it is capable of pulling its perceiver to its Source that is the Supreme Being Himself. Scripture says when God or the Supreme Sovereign alone existed and had a sweet will to become many, this will emanated out of Him in the form of a conscious vibration or conscious current. This vibration, as it flowed outwardly, started progressively shedding its subtlety leading to formation of a number of non-conscious regions or realms of creation broadly classified into afore-mentioned four levels of non-conscious creations.
5. The whole of non-conscious or inert nature consists of an inter-mix of three attributes or qualities namely, ‘sat’ or ‘satogun’ (here ‘sat’ means virtuous, righteous or positive and ‘gun’ means attributes/qualities/propensities), ‘raj’ or ‘rajogun (mundane or worldly disposition) and ‘tam’ or ‘tamogun’ (darker passions or negative tendencies). The dominance of any one of the three attributes decides the nature of that creation or mind. The highest level of non-conscious creation, ‘Mahâkâran Prakriti’ (Supra-causal Nature) has all the three attributes held in perfect equilibrium, equal proportion, and, therefore, is an inactive realm where no activity of any type takes place (hence, this is also called Equilibrial Primordial Nature). The ‘Kaivalya Mandal’ or ‘Chetan Mandal’ or Conscious Sphere lies beyond all the non-conscious spheres and is, thus, free of attributes or qualities. It is, therefore, also called ‘nirgun’ (attribute-less) plane of creation. The Supreme Being lives beyond both the attributed or non-conscious or classified nature as well as the attribute-less or conscious or unqualified nature.
6. All the four non-conscious planes of creation are ever-changing in their composition and are, therefore, not constant. The conscious plane of creation, however, is unchanging, uniform or constant.
7. Five objects in the world perceived by the five sensory organs are: i) form (perceived by eyes), ii) sound (heard with ears),
iii) grasped by nose), iv) taste (perceived by tongue) and v) touch (sensed by skin).
8. Kaivalya refers to the sphere of pure consciousness. It is also termed ‘Chetan Mandal’, ‘Satlok’, ‘Sachkhand’, Hiranyagarbha etc. In this region the soul is stripped off all the four non-conscious layers and it can clearly see the Supreme Being or God.
9. So long as there is even a single layer left that keeps covering the soul, dualism and dichotomy cannot end. Even in the Realm of Pure Consciousness there is thin transparent veil left as a result of which the soul can see the Supreme Being or God as a separate entity from itself, thus, leaving the thinnest scope of dualism. It is only after the soul, drawn by the attraction of the purely conscious unstruck sound, reaches the centre of the latter that it merges into the one only Supreme Being to be one with Him ending all kinds of dualism.
10. As mentioned earlier, the Supreme Being, when He alone and nothing else existed, had a sweet will or playful mood (in Hindi it has been called ‘mauj’, a word which is very difficult to translate) to become many. This sweet will sprang forth as the Primal Current/Vibration/Sound/Word which became the material cause of all that was subsequently created. When this Primeval Word/Current/Vibration/Sound or True Name issued from God, there was no other entity that existed. Thus, this Primal/ Quintessential Sound is called “anâhat nâd” or “anâhat shabd” or Unstruck Sound/Word/Melody (‘anâhat’ implies unstruck and ‘nâd’ or ‘shabd’ means sound or word). All other sounds, howsoever grand or lofty those might be, result from striking/collision/rubbing of two or more things and, hence, are known as “âhat shabd or nâd” (‘âhat’ means struck and ‘shabd’ or ‘nâd’ means sound or word). When the Quintessential Sound/Word/Current issued forth from God, there was no other entity in existence and, therefore, no striking/collision could have taken place; hence, the name “Unstruck Sound/Melody/Word/Vibration”.
11. So long as dualism remains, ‘triputî’ or triad remains. Examples of ‘triputî’ are “seeing, seer and seen object”, “listening, listener and sound”, “knowing, knower and knowledge”, “smelling, smeller and smell” etc. This triad continues up to the zone of Pure Consciousness where the soul is the seer (observer) that sees the Supreme Being/God.
12. ‘Om’ or ‘Aum’ is another name for the Primal Quintessential Unstruck vibration or Pure Consciousness. The Supreme Being lies even beyond ‘Om’. ‘Soham’ is a compound word formed of two words ‘So’ (That or He) and ‘Aham’ (I). Thus, ‘Soham’ implies ‘I am That (referring to God)’. ‘Soham’, in the present contest, refers to the characteristic sound of the Equilibrial Supra-causal Sphere, also called the Spiralling or whirling cave.
13. ‘Sachchidânanda’ is a compound Sanskrit word made up of three words, ‘sat’ (eternal), ‘chit’ (conscious) and ‘ânand’ (bliss). The Kaivalya sphere or the Sphere of Pure Consciousness is marked by eternally conscious bliss.
14. The Supreme Being/ God pervades, fills or indwells all levels of creation – conscious as well as non-conscious. These levels of creations including all creatures and objects contained
therein are ‘pervaded’. Everything else (other than the supreme Being) that exists is, in fact, a manifestation of that Supreme Being only, for everything is formed by the Primeval Word. However, God exists, in His pure state, beyond all kinds of creations, where nothing but God and God only is. The very notion of ‘pervasiveness’, therefore, makes sense only so far as there is something to be pervaded and something else that pervades. However, when God alone is left, there is nothing else available that could be pervaded and, hence, the very concept of, or the word, ‘pervasion’ (or, for that matter, ‘pervasiveness’) just makes no sense. Therefore, it is said that God, in His pure state, is both beyond the pervaded and the pervading (that part of the Supreme Being that fills a creation is called ‘Brahm’ or pervading God).
15. All types of non-conscious creations have been formed by, or bred by Kaivalya or Conscious Sphere or the Quintessential Unstruck Sound which is the material cause of all creations. Hence, the Realm of Primal Unstruck Sound is said to be the ‘Hiranyagarbha (Golden Womb – ‘Hiranya’ mean gold and ‘garbha’ implying as womb) out of which everything was born. (“In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with the God. …all that was made was made by the Word” – The Bible)
16. The Quintessential Primeval Unstruck Vibration that emanated from the Supreme Being is called ‘sat shabd’ (True Word) or ‘sat nâm’ (True Name ) as it is unchanging and uniform.