The duality of Universal consciousness, paired Universe

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.