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the history of the various cultural groups of humanity. The need therefore is to give up the impulsive approach to the problem because it blurs the vision and thus impedes progress of man towards his goal.
For the sake of understanding we may call it ‘Zero’ or the ‘Centre’, or the ‘Base’. No prakriti and no universe can stand without the Base. There must be a backing for the existence and that backing is God or Brahman, Ultimate Reality. It is the Bhuma, a substanceless substance and a forceless force.
Further, I may now reveal herein the true significance of a mystery little known to the people. Generally they consider sat to be reality and treat it as the yardstick for measuring the knowledge of God. In fact it is all the sphere of tam and tam alone. This is the only thing worth achieving for a true yogi. It is, no doubt, very very difficult to gain access to this point. To acquire sat is a very easy job but the state termed as tam cannot so easily be attained. There is nothing beyond it. Though people generally talk a good deal about it, few amongst them even attempt to secure an approach up to it. Purity, simplicity and peace even are not there. It is in fact beyond all of them. This is the very thing, which is acquired after years of persistent labour for lives. I can boldly assert that even the greatest saints of the world have remained short of the mark in this respect. The stage of negation which one craves for and is the real life, abides in it and all activities cease before one reaches the point. It is the central point and the real state of Being which in most of the cases remained unattained in spite of all the efforts.
People consider this state of tam as their deadliest enemy. But if you ever happen to study a person in whom this state of complete ignorance is reigning in full swing, you will feel that in the highest pitch of advancement, he will, like an infant baby, have no awareness of his own condition. But if a slight touch of sat is applied to it, he will then begin to have cognisance of his state of tam. This is due to the fact that the meeting point of the two leads to the creation of a new state identical with that which was the basis of creation.
Generally our eyes are attracted to anything bright and glaring which we commonly misunderstand as sat. This bright object is nothing except maya and those who talk so highly about it are in fact far away from the sphere of spirituality even, not to say of Reality. But the people have developed such a state of torpidity that they are neither prone to hear nor perceive anything in this connection. They have lost sight of the true Reality which is beyond both light and darkness. This is what has been shown in the emblem of the Mission; and that is in a true sense the state of man’s perfection, from which no decline or fall is possible. This is a very delicate point of philosophy. The saints have generally called this state of neither light nor darkness assatpad which is not correct because this state is much beyond that. That is in fact the