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Jiva and Brahman
The blind man sees a wonderful sight to which there is no end. The dumb man speaks wonderful speech, and the man having speech becomes dumb.
I have not seen anything, still I have seen everything! I have not heard anything, still I have heard everything!
Such is the phenomenon of Nature. This structure or creation is of three attributes:Sat, Raj and Tam.
In Tam there is Be-ing, manifestation and existence (is-ness).
In Sat there is withdrawal, latency, waning and dissolution. But one should never mistake this latency and waning (decline) as non-existence. Otherwise it would be misleading. It is only a condition, a state of withdrawal of existence. Withdrawal or waning (decline) is not non-existence.
The witness to this manifestation and withdrawal Be-ing and non-Be-ing, existence and non-existence (is-ness) is the mixed state of Raj, which is the knot of Sat andTam, matter and spirit (conscient and inconscient).
Tam is matter, Sat is spirit and Raj is the mind (heart). This condition is in both microcosm or Pind and macrocosm or Brahmanda.
In both there is the same picture. Just as we get up in our body in the waking state, withdraw ourselves in deep-sleep, and dream in the dream state, so also there is a greater existence, Virat Astitva, which does the same acts and is engaged in doing so. The sages call this, Virat Astitva, greater existence, Brahman. The Sufis have called itKhuda-i-Azeem. The difference between the two is that of body, size and expanse. The word Jeeva should not be used for it. Jeeva is miniature creation only. That greater existence also is mind, a knot of matter and spirit. People fear to say it clearly.
That greater existence, Brahman is (i) a knot of matter and spirit, (ii) a mixed condition of Sat, Tam and Raj, (iii) It wakes, sleeps and merges like us, (iv) It acts as we do, (v) Of course it is big while we are small, (vi)It is unlimited, omniscient, omnipresent and all pervading, whereas we have these qualities in a very limited degree. This is the difference. Our name is individual soul, Jeeva, whereas His name is Cosmic spirit,Brahman. The sages gave Him this name because they understood its meaning thoroughly well. Just think of the meaning of the word Brahman for a moment. Bruhat+ man i.e. Big mind — one having a big mind is Brahman. The Sufis did not know Him by this name. As they did not find other better words they called Him as ‘Khuda-i-Azam’.

























































































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