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or body-centredness. It has been very difficult to speak about this consciousness in the language of ordinary man.
This cosmic consciousness is held by many to be the goal of man. The experiences some times range from the totality of the whole to the void, or even the absolute without any distinctions.
Some types of cosmic consciousness however feel the cosmos itself extending to spheres far beyond our senses and there have been some who have described the worlds beyond the sense-range and life-range.
Some have seen Gods and Goddesses of their persuasion, and have valued highly this communicability of the cosmic consciousness with their own. In and through this cosmic consciousness, one almost enters the world of mythical gods and powers-the region where one almost sees the preparations for world events here and elsewhere.
But all this is said to be just the product of a fantastic imagination by people who see in this cosmic consciousness a world of maya much subtler than our gross worlds which restrict even the world of maya to give us a world of ignorance (avidya).
Some may see in this meaning of our meaningless world-lila. As a scholar Kapila Sastri remarked, the world of lila is just one removed from the world of maya.
Cosmic consciousness is of the mind region. The mind in this region becomes the most expensive womb of all imagination, along with all the possibilities of the individual mind, sense organ, and motor organ group. Moving beyond, and out of, the body consciousness, one begins to enter into the mind consciousness and lives in it.
Cosmic consciousness is centred on the mind - the cosmic mind which permits the many individuals to experience the mind-state and transcend it. The philosophies, which claim mind to be the ultimate substance, are usually impressed by the vastness of the regions of the mind. Its capacity to move to far distances and conceive of infinity or infinities is very astounding. The Upanisads speak of mind -speed, which is much faster than