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‘We are and we are not’as also ‘we are not and we are’
or sense of self has been well brought out in several articles of BP V III & IV .
‘We are’ affirms our separate existence while ‘we are not’ negates it. “Awareness of individual existence starts the moment Jiva is born and gets strengthened by the customs and educational inputs of the society and culture which promotes ‘I’ -ness The aspirants who have had the taste of nothingness or void when they reflect on such an experience are able to get out of the illusion of this ‘I’ consciousness.” (BP V3 p283) During the moments of no mind, no thought entire self disappears along with all the inter-connected thoughts feelings, relationships, ideas and the egoity. This is the Nothingness condition or state of negation of individuality but there is the awareness in the background. This may be equated to the feeling of ‘we are not’.
After a while we come back as if it were from a literally ‘no man’s land’ the land of non-beingness and recognize of our entityship. During the stretch of our meditative imperience there seems to be a transition, sometimes sudden, between polar opposites, the state of being and the state of non-being, that is from the standpoint of our selves. Again there is this awareness in the background and which is different from the two as stated above, the Pure Consciousness, the true nature of our Being.
This may be compared to the Consciousness persisting through deep sleep, sushupti which informs the subject as if it were that he has undergone the waking, dreaming and the deep sleep condition when there was latency or dormancy in the Absolute or the One Original Consciousness.
This Pure Consciousness is not created, it is born with us and does not admit of any change whatsoever and
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