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The introduction of the existence principle-Sat precipitates as if it were the awareness of his condition. The coming together of two things brings about a third condition i.e., the result of the meeting of the Tamand Sat serves as the basis of creation.
Normally we associate light with Sat and darkness with Asat. According to the Master, dazzling light is really Maya and it is a pity that it is being mistaken to be Reality. He says that Reality is neither light nor darkness but beyond both. This is illustrated in the emblem of ISRC, we find the words OM TAT SAT inscribed in a dark background at the top. Generally many people think that Sat is God and is the highest state. In any field of experience there is always the observer and the observed. The observer’s consciousness is the ‘I’ consciousness, which cannot be eliminated totally. But then it will not be perfect knowledge as the Reality is contaminated by the presence of the ‘I’ and to this extent it is not the experience of the Absolute. Sat is existence and when the observer is totally merged in the Real he is non- existent. Then Reality alone remains but this condition cannot be described. Revered K.C.Varadachari puts it, ‘That is why we say in SRRY ‘OM TAT SAT’. The idea is when you pass beyond the three levels of consciousness, waking, dreaming and sleeping, you come across a condition where ‘I’ is negated. That is what other people call Sat. We do not say Sat Tat but say Tat Sat– for us Tat is nothing, zero. But without it we cannot exist—if you can achieve that Tat, zero then you will be able to see the real nature of things of Sat or what Being is.’ Continuing he further says that the religious persons do not understand OM and the philosophers SAT. The Ultimate is not ‘nothing’ but is pregnant with infinite potentialities and immobile till the ‘I’ is introduced. This condition of thought is Bhooma according to the Master. The Bhooma or Bhoomi is the Zero or the support on which everything stands and is the Reality we have to know. The Master says that even Tam is the reflection of the Ultimate Reality and further that hardly anyone would come forward to taste this condition which is tasteless.
Identity
We mean by identity something which serves to distinguish the thing whose identity we are talking about, from other things at all times and spatial locations. This implies an invariable constancy or persistence about the distinguishing features and not only that the observing entities also must continue to possess the capacities to perceive and record such features through time and space, which is a tall order! It can be supposed that whether such observers exist or not, such identities exist in principle in an intuitive fashion irrespective whether it is observable or observed in practice. Identity is a principle of exclusion implying that no two things in nature are