The duality of
Universal consciousness, paired Universe
Number Two (dvi)----the duality of Universal
consciousness
(The Sanskrit words in italic
can be found in the Sanskrit-English Dictionary by Sir. Monier Williams
available for free in the Internet at the address http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/
.
The Sanskrit words are ‘ITRANS’ version as in the above
mentioned dictionary.
This is written following the teaching of Rishi (seer) ‘Shri
Bijoy Krrishna Chattopdhyay of Howrah’ (also was called Howrah’s Thakur---The
God in Howrah) and his principal disciple Shri. Tridibnath Bandyopadhaya, the
seers who preached the Vedas.)
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Number Two (dvi).
Two is that aspect of Consciousness which represents the
state of duality of Consciousness. It is
a matter of normal observation that the organs of perception by which we
perceive the world is ‘dual’ in most of the creatures, like two eyes or two
ears. The physical science also shows the duality like positive and negative
charges, centripetal and centrifugal forces, actions and reactions.
The entire universe is digitized in numerous ways. Any
continuity is interspersed by break. The beginning and end, the day and night,
life and death, crest and trough, the
space or void everywhere between two
physical objects (like inter atomic space) and so on. The word ‘digit’ seems
have its root in the Sanskrit word ‘dvija’
meaning ‘twice born’ thus signifying
the ‘duality’.
Pole or ‘meru’
Our Guru has explained the word ‘meru’ (meaning pole in Sanskrit)
as ‘mae rupae’ or ‘my two forms’. Thus Consciousness in the process of defining
or creating the universe, reveals the bi-polarity or duality. The basic duality
of Consciousness, (and so of all of us), is ‘to speak’ & ‘to listen’. In
Consciousness, ‘to speak’ means to make or to create. In Consciousness, ‘to
listen’ means to ‘feel’ what is created. In Universal Consciousness, ‘feeling’
what is created also includes ‘all the states of the creature or the creature
itself in all its entirety’. We never speak a single word without listening to
what we speak.
Jaatavedas-the
name of agni (fire, revealing
Universal Consciousness)
Thus the Vedas have addressed Consciousness as ‘jaatavedas’ meaning ‘jaata’ (generating or creating) + vedas (knowing or feeling).It is for this reason, Vedas are called shruti which means the ‘act of
listening’.
The ‘alphabets’ making the ‘duality’.
‘Two’ is dvi in Sanskrit. dvi is related to dyU or div (divinity) which means revealing.
The alphabet ‘da’ in Sanskrit is a ‘dental’ consonant. It
signifies all the aspects of Consciousness regarding ‘dent, detonate’ and
‘donate’. The corresponding words in Sanskrit are : danta (tooth), dyut(to
break, illuminate, irradiate), da (to
donate, to give).
The word ‘danta’ (tooth>dental) is related to ‘word’ or
‘speech’. The articulated words are
processed through the teeth. The articulated, formed, defined or processed
words are called ‘vaakya’. In
Consciousness the words have materialized as the universe or creation. In us,
our words are ideas or definitions in the mind. Our words remains within the
bound of our individual mind or inner space (also called antaraakaasha---inner sky). We cannot create an object in the
external. The physical world is held in the mind of the Universal Consciousness
which we feel as the space outside. The external world is made of the words of
‘Universal Consciousness’. The faculty
of Consciousness by which Consciousness splits or radiates as a separate or
dual entity is called ‘vaak’. ‘vaak’
is the root of all ‘vaakya’ or
processed words or defined entity. ‘vaak’
is also described as ‘vidyut’ or
electricity. ‘vidyut’ means, ‘vi(bi—dual)+ dyut’(denotes)—the one which splits or detonates and creates dual
from Oneness. It donates duality.
These two alphabets, ‘da’
and ‘va’ are the constituents of the
word ‘dvi’ (two). The alphabet ‘i’
represents motion or movement or action. The act of speaking is called ‘vada’ and is also made of the two
alphabets va & da.
The tongue of the goddess.
The tongue is the tool of articulation of the words in the
air or in the career medium. The tongue articulates and gives birth to the
‘formed word’ or ‘formation’. It also tastes or feels. The tongue with the
series of teeth are the artifacts of the Consciousness, Her aids in the
creation.
Thus, there is a Vedic hymn on goddess vaak:
oShThaapidhanam asi (covered by the lips) nakulI(without roots,
cast & creed)
dantaih parivRitaa (surrounded by the teeth) pavi (flowing
and cleansing)
jihvae (on my tongue) maa(never) vihavlah(falter)
chaaru (charming) vaacham (words) videhah maM(bestow on me)
Covered by the lips
Surrounded by the
teeth
You, flowing and
cleansing
Never falter on my
tongue
Bestow on me the
charming words.
The two tongues and Algebra.
The inner tongue is called ‘alijihvaa’ (the uvula or soft palate). The academicians say that
‘Algebra’ is from Arabic word ‘al-jabr’ as the subject mathematics was called
by that name; however we have learnt from our Guru that the word is from the
root word ‘alijihvaa’ meaning the
‘inner tongue‘ where lie the roots of the words. The subject Algebra deals with
the ‘roots’ and in Indian language (like in Bengali) it is called ‘vIja (seed) gaNita(mathematics)’ or the mathematics of the ‘seeds’ or ‘roots’.
The Universal Pair—vaak
and praaNa (earth and the fire; the shell and the spirit)
‘vaak’ is the shakti or
faculty of Consciousness. Faculty of Consciousness is Consciousness. As ‘vaak’ makes Consciousness active, the
active personality of Consciousness is called ‘praaNa’. Thus ‘vaak’ is
the consort or ‘shakti’ of ‘praaNa’. The whole universe is created
from the conjugal pair, ‘vaak’ and ‘praaNa’. ‘vaak’ splits, cuts, fragments Universal One or Consciousness into
many and each such fragment is a ‘vaakya’
or a word. Thus all our feelings, senses are accompanied by words or sound. We
feel means we listen. We do not talk without listening. Thus in you, inside you
or in your consciousness, in every moment you are splitting as a word or in a
form. This is as you speak. And every form or shape you take, you feel it; i.e. it becomes an entity of yours and this is
your ‘listening’.
These are the two basic actions by which we all live :
speaking and listening. Speaking is associated with ‘vaak’ and ‘listening’ is associated with ‘praaNa’ or senses.
This universal pair, ‘praaNa’
and ‘vaak’, is the ‘mithuna’ or the copulation behind any
creation. This is also known as ‘div’
/ ‘dyu’ (heaven) and ‘bhU’ (earth), ‘saama’ and ‘Rik’, ‘agni’ (fire) and ‘pRithivI’(earth) in the Vedas.
Dual manifestation of vaak,
praaNa and manas (mind).
In the process of creation, trinity, or three major steps of
Universal Consciousness are observed. These are ‘vaak’, ‘praaNa’
and ‘manas’. Each step is a ‘personality’ and these three are also known
as the three major deities.
Now, each step or each step of revelation happens in two
forms. One form is called, ‘jyotI rUpa’ and the other as ‘sharIr’.
‘jyotI ruPa’ means the shining (jyoti) or
revealing form(rUpa). ‘jyoti’ is related to the root word
/alphabet ‘ja’ which is connected to the words related to ‘generation’
like ‘jan’ (to cause to be born), ‘jaata’ (born). Thus the word actually
means ‘the revealing origin’.
Thus the Vedas (Upanishads) have said:
(i)
tasyoi (that)
bachah(Vaak’s) pRithivI(earth) sharIram(is the body), jyotirUpam(illuminated
form is) ayam(this) agni(fire)
The body of vaak
is the earth (pRithivI—who sustains
segregated existence in defined forms) and the revealing form is fire (agni—who is cast or made in a form).
Thus every expression, every identity is the body made by vaak and is called pRithivI.
In Vedas, the word pRithivI or earth
has been used synonymously with the word sharIra
or body. Every word is a definition of
Consciousness; every word is a shape of Consciousness or praaNa and shaped by the faculty of Consciousness called ‘vaak’. Thus ‘vaak’ is the mother of all the words. This entire universe is made
of the union of praaNa with vaak. (You may refer to Chandogya
Upanishad.)
Thus fire is there inside the earth, spirit is there inside
the body, emotions are there inside a word. vaak
always defines Herself as vakya or
the formed /defined word. This is pRithivI,
the defined and isolated existence; the lonely earth.
In nature this is revealed as earth and electricity.
Electricity, thunder ignites and produces ‘fire’ when it is earthed. This is
also exhibited by the behavior of the earth as the enormous ‘ground’ or ‘sink’’
of electrical charges.
(ii)
atha(and)
aetasya(this) praaNasya(Praana’s) aapah(ap/water) sharIram (is the body) jyotIrUpam(the illuminated form is) asou(that) chandramaa(moon).
The body of praaNa is water
and the revealing form is this moon.
praaNa holds the
entire creation to rear them up and controls them to get them back in the
origin. praaNa is the revealing moon
or lunar plane which controls all our cycles of birth and rebirth and our
evolution. The body of praaNa is ‘ap’ or water(acquirement of
Consciousness and the state of satisfaction where no thirst or desire is
existing) where we as praaNa’s acquirement remain.
(iii)
atha(and)
aetasya(this) manasah(mind’s) dyouh(the divinity or heaven) sharIram (is the body), jyotiRupam(the
illuminated form is) asou (that)
adityah (aditya/sun).
The body of the mind is the divinity and the revealing
form is the sun.
In the mind all the dimensional world is held in the form of
seed. In our Consciousness, where we see
the dimensional world is called 'mind'. They
are all in One, in singularity or in aditya.
aditya is the one who is the son of aditi (aditi= a/without + diti/duality). The sun is aditya
as the sun is ‘same’ to all of us, as the sun looks at every one , illuminates
every one. It is the revealing, self-illuminated sphere in our external sky and
is the plane of revelation or divinity. Thus, sun is aditya, the son of aditi
who is the mother of the deities. The sun is dominating on the entire
physicality, the vision, the shape, the dimensional world and is controlling
our time. Controlling time means, assimilating us, bringing us back to Oneness.
So is the name ‘aditya’. (Refer first
Chapter of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.) This control of time is distributed in us
through the lunar plane and implemented in us through the terrestrial plane.
Whatever could be a revelation, it is from the mind. When
mind is known like this, it is called ‘divine mind’. So, mind is also called
the ‘third eye’. (See Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, First chapter).
svaahaa
and svadhaa
agni (fire), the self-revealing Consciousness has
two wives named svaahaa and svadhaa. They
are the faculty (Shakti) of agni. svaahaa means: sva(soul/self)
+ ah (call). The name by which the
Consciousness calls Consciousness, Consciousness becomes the same, i.e.
Consciousness creates the entity defined by that name . Thus Consciousness is
called ‘svyaam (soul/self) prakaasha(revealing)’. ’ Thus this
universe is the ‘call of Consciousness’. (This also explains why the English
word ‘call’ is phonetically similar to the Sanskrit word ‘kaala’ and that in ancient
time this knowledge was not limited to a certain geographical area.)
Another aspect is svadhaa.
svadhaa=sva (soul/ self) + dhaa (to hold)—it is that faculty of
Universal Consciousness by which Consciousness holds every bit of creation in
HERSELF (in Consciousness).
Vision creating the duality, di-vision
Thus as the duality is created out of Oneness; the revealing
plane (div/dyu, divinity/heaven) is
set for subsequent creation. This revealing plane or revelation is the ‘vision’
or ‘eye’. This is video or ‘vid’. ‘vid’ in
Sanskrit means ‘to know’. ‘To know’ means to ‘become’. To ‘become’ means
creation or formation. Our eyes receive or see forms. In Universal
consciousness, vision is both creative and receptive. Our vision is a part of
Universal Consciousness.
The Sanskrit word ‘di’
means ‘division’ or it implies ‘duality’. Thus it is ‘division’ or ‘di +vision’
or the vision that creates duality. The physical seat of this vision or eye is
the ‘sun’ in our planetary system and is the source of vision or light as well
as the source of ‘time’ or ‘kaala’.
This has also been addressed in the Vedas as the ‘heaven like eye of viShNu’------divi(div or heaven/ divine plane) iva (like) chakShu(eye) aatatam(spread
all over) –the eye(vision) spread all over like the divinity (or revealing
everything).(Rik Veda).
As explained below,
Vedic word ‘IkshaNa’ means ‘to
see’ and also ‘action of time’.
indra
and Virochana ---the two observers and the number thousand.
indra is the king
of the deities and the son of aditi (a + diti = without duality). The word indra
means idam (it) + dra (seeing)----who is the observer and
who is always seeing like, ’it is grass’, ‘it is flower’, ‘it is
universe’…..and so on. indra sees
everything in One. It has been mentioned in the Vedas that indra has thousands of eyes. indra
has been called sahasra (thousand) lochana(eyed). sahasra etymologically means saha(along with + sravati
(flowing----root word is sru). So, sahasra
or thousand means ‘atmana saha
((along with immutable soul or ONE) sravati (flowing)----flowing along with the
immutable soul’ . Thus is indra, who
sees everything in immutable soul or Oneness. Another name of 'indra' is 'indha'.
'indha' means ' one who is flagrant',
i.e. one who reveals or makes the 'vision'.
The king of asura
is known as virochana. He is the son
of ‘diti’. ‘diti’
is the personality or the aspect of
Consciousness who is the mother of duality’.
virochana
etymologically means = vi (bi—different) + rochna (shine, shine
of the eye) = who has different view or
who is shining to reveal difference.
He is asura. asura means
asu (praaNa) + ra (ra~njana--- dyeing/colouring). Thus asura means those who are obsessed by
the shine or colour of praaNa and
they don’t see the source of the shine. Thus duality prevails on them.
Meaning of ‘different—anya and second’
The word ‘anya’
means ‘different’, ‘different person or entity’. Etymologically, ‘anya’ means, anya=an+ya= controlled by ‘an’/animation or ‘praaNa’.
Thus whatever is second or different is ‘anya’
and under the control of praaNa. It
is noteworthy that ‘second’ means ‘a different entity or a different person’
and it is also a term for the unit of time or a measure of the action of ‘praaNa’.
Creation of Chromosomes / mithuna (copulation) in the beginning.(The paired universe).
(Below is briefly what
the Seer in Brihadarnyaka Upanishad has described about the creation of duality
in the beginning as seen in the Universal Consciousness. These are not some 'simplistic' theory.
These are the descriptions, in simple words, of the beginning of creation as experienced in Universal
Consciousness. We don't need as pre-requisite, any knowledge of a complicated theory or science.
We can know it by our natural association with the Universal Consciousness as
we are part and parcel of Universal Consciousness.)
In the beginning only Soul or One (aatman) was there but in a state of 'about to become many'. (This about to become many is described by a
term called 'puruShavidha'. The word can be broken in two parts:
puruShavidha = puruSha
+vidha.
puruSha= pur(shell or
abode, dimension or body) + Sha (dissected or fragmented).
vidha= kind or form.
It also means 'pierced or perforated'.
So, here 'puruShavidha' means who is about to become 'many in different
dimensions'.)
He desired to be in micros (aNu--atom). (The words used
in Upanishad is ‘sah anuvIkShya’. This means (i) He looked minutely; (ii) He
longed / thought to become minute or split. The language of Sanskrit is also
known as the language of gods. Every word is surprisingly potential and
scientific. The word, ‘vIkShya’ is originating from the root, ‘vi+ IkSh’. The
root word ‘IkSh’ means: to see, to activate time, to desire, to think’. The
noun form ‘IkShaNa’ means ‘I {action,
shakti, faculty} + kShaNa{dimension of time} and also it means ‘look ,
thought’. These all are same in Consciousness;
to see means to reveal; Consciousness desires to reveal; revelation
means action of time or flow of time.)
( Creation of 'I am').
HE (the soul or Universal One)
looked around minutely and could not
see any One else but HIM (ONENESS). HE first emerged (from absolute Oneness) as
'I am' ('aham asmi').
This is why even now, if anyone is
invited (or called), the one first says 'I am so and so' and then the one
'mentions other names (things)as applicable'. As HE burnt (ouShat) the sins
before (pUrva), so HE is called 'puruSha'. (Duality is the root of 'sin' or sense of 'sin'. If there is only
'ONENESS' who will commit sin to whom; if there is ONENESS, there is neither
sin nor virtue. As HE was ONE before all
duality is created, so it is said that 'HE burnt all the sins beforehand'.)
(Creation of fear and loneliness)
HE was afraid.
This is why anyone who is alone gets the fear. Then HE thought "since
there can be none other than me then from whom I will have the fear". This
is why HIS fear disappeared. Fear is created from the sense of duality.
(Since in the beginning HE could not see any
one else but 'ONENESS', so already the
'sense of else or sense of duality' was created along with ONENESS. The above
describes how the sense of 'fear' and 'loneliness' was created in the Universal
Consciousness.)
But HE could not
rejoice.
(In Upanishad, the word 'ram' is used for
rejoice. 'ram' is a verb and means 'to enjoy, to stay with, to cohabit
sexually' etc. The root word is from the alphabet 'r' which signifies revealing
consciousness or agni/ praaNa or fire. The alphabet 'm' represents the earth,
mortality or shell.) Thus the word 'ram' signifies the coupling of praaNa
(fire) with vaak (earth). This is why, everywhere in creation, the life or
praaNa or a creature is found with 'spirit' (fire) and 'dimension or
body'{earth}).
This is why none
alone can rejoice. So HE wanted to become 'second/different'. HE became only
that much as is defined by a 'female and male perfectly embraced by each
other'. HE, thus divided HIM in two. Thus was created the husband and the wife.
{After this, Upanishad has used the term
‘strI’ which means “ s(sRishTi/creation)+tra(three)+I (energy, faculty, shakti)
-----the three fundamental faculties of Consciousness corresponding to three
primary manifestation or trinity. Upanishad has mentioned that ‘any void is
full of ‘strI’. So, void is not really void, it is full of Consciousness, it is
full of ‘Mothers’ who are in the background of creation!
It is also like the loneliness or vacuum is
removed by the 'wife'.
There is a name called ‘bahula’ in Chandogya
Upanishad. This name has been ascribed to a form of ‘agni’ or 'praaNa'. bahula means, ‘who is characterized for
producing many or existing in ‘numerous forms’ ‘bahula’ is associated with
‘void’ or ‘sky’ in Vedic texts. The space or void that we see between any two
entities is actually the faculty of Universal Consciousness who have created
many and keeping them segregated or maintaining their individual existence.
There is void between two physical objects; there is void between two minds. So, this sky is full of the Mother or Mother’s
energy creating and supporting the numerous forms of existence or HER numerous
children}.
HE copulated and
‘human beings were created.
(My understanding of this sentence is: ‘HE copulated and beings of higher orders and
up to human beings were created';
because after this, creation of animals or creation of first copulation
of animal plane has been described. Two
very significant words have been used (i) to represent copulation in the higher
plane descending to human being and (ii) to represent the copulation in the
lower plane. For the higher plane, the word is ‘sam –abhavat’. The word ‘sam’ stands for ‘sameness’,
‘parallel’ etc.
‘sam abhavat’ could mean ‘union’ happened with the feeling of sameness {or ‘same is
in union with same’}. This also provides cues to why in Mythology and in Bible,
‘incest’ has been mentioned. For the animal plane the word ‘tir{tiras}’ has been used. ‘tiras’ has two meaning. It means ‘skewed or oblique’.
It also means ‘secretly away’’. It is stated in the text that after the
creation up to ‘human beings’ {which has been described as 'with sameness’},
the ‘female form' thought "how HE could come into me when I am created
from HIM!". So, SHE decided to hide. Here the word ‘tir or tiras has been used’. The actual word in
the text is ‘tiroasani---tirah asani’, which means ‘SHE disappeared’. It is told that,
after human beings(or seeds of human beings) are created, SHE disappeared when
the next series of copulation to start. SHE became a ‘cow’ and then HE became
an ox to copulate and similarly other male and female animal pairs were
described for ‘first copulations’ which created the species. The significance
is, that the word ‘tiras’ also means ‘skewed’ and is contrast to the word
‘sam’(meaning ‘straight’ or ‘same’) used for describing the word ‘copulation of
the species who are mentally superior to animals'. Also, it is noteworthy that
animals are called ‘titya~nch’ and the word
‘tiryak ‘ meaning ‘bent’ is also used to describe animal kingdom. Thus as the creation or the revelation or
the light (of aditya) descends, it becomes skewed and skewed, bent and bent, as
happens when the light is refracted from a rarer medium (divinity) to the
denser and denser medium toward stark physicality. Thus it is said in Upanishad (Chandogya), ‘... doureva(divinity)
tirashchIn(bent) vansha(stem, genealogy, spine)’---divinity reveals as the bent
stem of genealogy.
