Page 53 - Journey to Infinity

The totality of the Jivas is Brahman also. This universe, Brahmanu, also is the gross body of the Brahman. From the point of view of gross body this is considered as Virat,the sum total of all existence. The intellect of the Brahman is dependent on that of man, because when man has intellect and understanding, he thinks the Brahman to be the sum total of all intellect, and calls Him omniscient and perfectly wise. Since we consider knowledge and intellect as the basic factor in us human beings, we considerBrahman also to be the sum total of all the basic factors of knowledge and intellect, and call Him the ‘Internal check’ or Antaryamin, ‘all pervading’, ‘Prime mover’, ‘Heart of the Heart’ and so on. We know happiness and joy, and become happy. We also see joy in others. From this we conclude that just as the aggregate of body-hood is seen in the form of the whole universe, even so there must be the aggregate of joy, which we call Supreme bliss, All-joy, All- happiness, Hiranyagarbha and so on. It is said that one should see the whole universe in one’s own self and oneself in the universe. This is merely verbal and theoretical. Now listen to the practical thing.
We see around us millions of living beings, the sun, the moon, the stars, kings, the public and innumerable other things. All these great and small scenes are caught in the pupils of our eyes within the fraction of a second. Open your eyes, and lo! thousands of stars in the sky enter into them. This is the external condi¬tion. Now, close your eyes and the same things appear inside also. The external and the internal seem to be one and the same.
We think that we are the subjects of some subordinates of some officer and the creatures of stances. So, we have taken the mean idea of subordination, but we never thought even for a moment the reality of all these is dependent on us. If we were not there who would call the King a king, and the people as ‘people’? When we ourselves accept a king as a king, he is a king! When we accept father as father he becomes a father! When we accept a wife, she becomes a wife! All these are accepted things, There is a proverb which says, ‘if you believe in God, there is God; otherwise it is stone’. It is we, the centre, round which all these scenes of plurality revolve in such a way that we have no idea of this at all due some reason. Seeing this spinning had revolution, our intellect also began to revolve, and the result was that the joy of the polar or central conditions was taken away. It is the circumference that rotates and revolves; but seeing the circumference, the centre too believed itself as revolving, just as houses and gardens appear to be revolving to the boys who rotate in a game, and the trees and lakes appear to move to those travelling in a train. This is called illusion and, once we are under such illusion, we have to necessarily experience it revolving round and round.
Let us now understand the secret of seeing or, selves in all, and all in