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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
Let us start out by taking a look at a description of reality put forth by mystical philosophers. For thousands of years, mystics have said that there is ‘One Energy’ in the Universe, that the Universe and everything in it is the play, the dance, and the vibration, of that ‘Energy’. Underneath the seeming multiplicity, they say, everything is made of the same substance. This Energy, they say, is everywhere, and at all times. This principle is sometimes described as Omnipresence, or God. The Hindus call this principle Sat, and it is everywhere, making up everything of past, present, and future. The mystics in addition to noting that this one energy is omnipresent also said that this ‘Energy’ is aware of itself being everything and everywhere and at all times: that it is conscious, that it has consciousness and this they called Chit.
We should note that the word consciousness, used here does not carry the same sense as what we would ordinarily think of as knowing, in a cognitive sense. This is not the same sense as our senses and our brain knowing or recognizing
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