Page 333 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

Chakshusaschakshur atimuchya dheerah
Pretya asmallokad amrita bhavanti.
That is how the Kena upanishad puts it. That is why what is designated as the Pranasya Pranaha, the breath of breath, is also chakshu of chakshuhu is also the srotra of the srotra, and the vak of vak. So it is that force which we call the Pranasya Pranaha, the supreme force which we call the Manas which later on became degraded into reason and all that. This is the original concept of it, and it is, by the great Lalaji, mentioned as component At-man, Brah-man-'Man' is used there as designating the supreme first mind of God. He has written it in his studies on Vedic knowledge which was published in the "Sahaj Marg" in Hindi and Urdu, I believe. Now that is the position. If you take that point you will find that this concept of mind being capable of being seen at that level, heard at that level, lived by at that level, that is actively, dynamically participated in; that is lived, and spoken of at that level, indescribable though to us. It is at that level described in a different way as amenable to that consciousness, and in tune with THAT consciousness, with its own vocabulary or dictionary, if I may so put it, which they call the nirguna of the higher order, or the nirukta; and all vyakarana, the grammar of experience, everything is there at that level.
But since we are today looking for what is called postvedic grammar and dictions and all that, we do not know anything about this sruti. There is a distortion. If you can once again recover that consciousness, that Conscience as I may put it, which is verified within by each one of the mantra-drishtas and the great mantrikas, we have the recovery of conscience practically made by every one of us. The recovery of conscience, then, in this sense of a word of the voice of God within us, of the Ultimate within us, is an absolute necessity. And it is not beyond our reach, nor should we think it is a desperate point that we can never get at that kind of consciousness, that we cannot become rishis, that we cannot become 'kavis'. One man asked me 'If those people have failed, what can I do?' Where they have failed, these have been stepping stones for us to go beyond. Their failures are our successes, or preparations for our successes.
That is why our past is merely something on which we build our future! Don't think it is something to be destroyed by us! Even if they are rubble,