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All Appears in the Light of Consciousness - 12th Sept. 2016

September 12, 20163:5590 views

Saar (Essence)

Ananta explains that all phenomena, including time and space, emerge spontaneously with the birth of consciousness. He suggests that while we can witness these appearances, the mechanism of their creation remains an inexplicable mystery of being.

All phenomenal worlds and powers like time and space appear only with the birth of consciousness.
The question of how being creates these appearances is beyond any possible answer.
Everything we experience is just appearances in the light of consciousness, made of being itself.

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Transcript

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Seeker

Now I'm asking you: how the world happens out of the being within? The world, bodies, everything, universe and everything... at least, I don't know whether this is the last question, because obviously saying 'last question' doesn't help, but lastly...

Ananta

Last answer I can control! Yes, thank you. No, no, it is fine, it is fine. Thank you so much. Yes. So, with the birth of the being, you see, in the parents... so there is nothing, we say, is that the same level of reality or unreality? You see, now whether it is experienced as if it is this sense of touch, experience as sense of smell, experience even as a sense of visualization, imagination, or memory, all of this is just appearances in the light of consciousness, isn't it? Too, just like this, with the birth of consciousness, so all of this phenomenal world, the emergence of all of these powers like attention, belief, gravity, electricity, magnetism, like sound, time, space—all of these are appearing.

Ananta

You see, now how to answer how these are created? Nobody can answer them. There is no answer to this. You see, how does consciousness... what tools does it use? What mechanism does it use to create time, the sense of time, or space, or gravity, or light, or electricity? At least I don't have a good answer for that. All I can report from my experience is that when this is here, and being is here, then all of these seem to come into play.

Ananta

How these are created by being, what steps it uses, or is there even something like steps we can say for being? You see, I find that only we have to say that they just appear, made up of being itself, all aspects of itself. So just like when you mix up all the colors, you see... so this awareness or this primal witnessing now experiencing itself as if it is existing, as if it is a being, and still it is made up of all the colors. And with the appearance of this, then all these colors seem to spill out and are seen. All the powers, phenomenal experiences, as well as the content of this world seem to appear. 'How' is the question beyond answer, I feel.

The Thread Continues

These satsangs touch the same silence.