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covered by. That is Brahman can be said to cover the entire creation including the individual soul eneveloping it and protecting it or it could be equally said that Brahman is covered by or ensouled by the entire creation. Thus Jiva is covering and is in turn covered by Brahman. The first covering of the Jiva is a superfine form of ego of the nature of individuality which really effected the difference between Jiva and Brahman.
Now, Jiva as a soul bound up within ego or individuality, came into existence. The sphere the ego was it began to cast its effect upon it and progressively the other various hues and colours started to settle on it, thus making it thicker and denser. Feelings and emotions and desires began contributing their own share to its grossness making it opaque so that one cannot even peep into, the individual soul. Eventually the Jiva became like a golden bird encased in an iron cage of the body. The implication is that though thus encased, the prison like environment of the body ensouling it cannot affect the pristine purity of the Jiva, this referring to the Pure Consciousness part of the soul. When by a stroke of good fortune it comes into dynamic contact with one who reminds it of its origin it starts shedding its coverings one by one and is set on the path of liberation.
Jiva becomes cognizant of Brahman because it possesses motion and thinking. The two faculties are functioning in parallel in it. Both Jiva and Brahman possess thinking and motion (growth is also motion in a way) and hence are dynamic instead of being static entities as conceived by the Vedantic scholars who are not speaking with the insight of practical experience of the conditions involved. It is the Master’s unique discovery that both Jiva and Brahman are the evolutes from the Centre ‘which is beyond the regions of our conventional philosophies and spirituality’ as remarked by Revered. Dr. K.C.Varadachari.
We find an interesting line of thinking in the commentary of Revered. Dr. K.C.Varadachari (CW1 p187) when he states, ‘When thought converts itself into motion or motion is capable of being converted into thought, there is what is called a state of ‘pause’. When one shifts into the other, there is just a twist and that is in different directions. Now these twists can be considered to be knots and there is no conversion of one kind of thought into another or one kind of motion into another or one kind of energy into another. There is a formation of several knots so far as individuals are concerned and it is the business of each individual to loosen the knots so that a passage from one kind to the other is possible, in other words transformation is possible.’ Such a transformation is effected in PAM through the transmission of the subtlest super fine consciousness. The Master brings the idea of parallelism elsewhere. The human is the individual and the Divine is the transcosmic and