GOD COSMOS AND ENLIGHTENED WAY

MAN:

       Most certain about all life is the fact that it would cease one day. The life span of different plants, fishes and animals vary from thousands of years to only a few years. Some trees live for a few thousand years, tortoise can live a few hundred years, while most animals live under 100 years. A human aged above seventy years is considered old. Death brings an end to the process of life, which involves the mechanism of metabolism supported by breathing and intake of food. It stabilizes the life process which brings growth and renewal of the decaying cells. The life process is so coded that this mechanism, which sustains life, breaks down after running for a period of time. It results in aging which culminates in death.

       After birth, with increasing maturity, the capacity of the brain grows to help the living creatures to adjust to the environment and learn new ways of tackling the challenges which one may face in sustaining the life process. With increased knowledge and information about the world and the society where one lives, the imagination and creativity become assets in exploring possibilities and opportunities which life offers. Coordination, cooperation, and mutual security of people living in a group become tantamount to the success of life. Certain principle and codes of behaviors help to hold together the fabrics of the society, which enhance the possibility of conducting business of life without encountering conflicts. Reproduction is also a fundamental need. So sexuality, love, and seduction become integral parts of it.  Emotions of anger, hatred, despair, or joy, happiness or contentment follow the process of failure or success in achieving the goals one may set for one`s life. When relations and conditions around life counteract one`s desires to fulfill the urges, one may experience, the life may appear as an arena of suffering. Those, who find channels to realize the inner well being and find success, feel happy.

       How one lives and tackles the challenges of biological and emotional life depend on the power of the brain to learn, imagine and be innovative. With maturity this capacity increases while the brain makes use of its neuronal networks in more effective and efficient ways. Through these activities we develop consciousness of ourselves as individual beings. We come to know ourselves as liking or disliking certain things, or interested or not interested in certain pursuits, willing or not-willing to submit oneself to some conditions of life, or accepting or not-accepting culture and behavioral norms of the groups in which we find oneself. More we pursue our inner state more we see territories of the mind, which were not known before. So more activation of the brain opens more and more realms of experiences, thoughts and richer emotions. Thus the mental life evolves from a biology based state, akin to all other animals, to a higher state of the mind. Those humans, who seek this higher path, may explore realms where the consciousness can transcend the conditions of the physical world in which one remains bound. In this transcended state one may experience a sphere of living, which one calls spiritual, when a higher power unfolds.

      Anyway, these activities bringing intellectual, emotional and spiritual experiences can not occur without the brain. In its finest days of activities the brain exhibits a vast spectrum of functions which create a plethora of experiences which bring one to realize higher and higher heights of living. With death all these activities cease and  everything that one once had experienced as so profoundly interesting and exciting, come to an end. The ego, which formed with the birth, disappears without leaving any physical trace in the world. The brain decomposes and becomes one with the organic matter like any other vegetative state without mind.  

       The one, who has left progenies on Earth may leave traces of the mind through the genes. Though genes may carry some traits of the mental activities of the ancestor, they follow their own course according to the environment and conditions of life. So no two life can clone itself when it comes to the mental sphere rising from the brain activities.

 Some people believe in the existence of the soul, which is an invisible and imperceptible substrata of existence, which leaves the body at death, and takes adobe in a new body taking birth anew. It moves from one body to another like changing clothes from life to life.

      Tell me if there exists any soul of the kind which reincarnates again and again life after life? How shall one attach oneself to the emotions and thoughts which seem to define the nature of the person living as an individual? What should be the right perspective as regards death?

ENLIGHTENED MAN:

       Every existence involves two aspects: One consists of form and belongingness to the physical world and the other is formless and lies outside the realm which one associates with the form-bound world. Both are  equally essential aspects of existence. Once something comes into existence it moves both in the form-bound and formless worlds: The world, which pertains to form and the forces interacting with each other, like the material world which we know, moves as a world without any mind. However, the world never exists as isolated from the will, which has no form and material content.  This will is invisible, imperceptible and outside the sphere which can be described with  phenomena occurring in space and time. The will exists everywhere as a substrate of existence which is not bound to the material content of the world. It acts on the world and manifests as consciousness amidst existing things. So existence has dual character: One belonging to world existing in time and space and the other belonging to the will. The will and world are the foundation of consciousness. The entire universe possesses a consciousness as the result of the existence of the will and the world which emerge everywhere as inseparable parts united together.

       With the cessation of the world existing in a particular form, the consciousness ceases to manifest in the way it has existed in the form which has ceased. When  the world takes a new form the consciousness emerges according to the nature of the world it assumes. Consciousness is a power that emerges as the result of actions of the will in the world.  Will and world have contradictory roles to play. The forces in the world seek to bind things into forms or break down things existing in forms into its mechanical parts. The will seeks to free itself from the form-bound world and mechanical motions. The will is the source of freedom and desire to escape the material conditions which force the world to follow the destined paths. Will acts to change the world in order to create a greater freedom for the existing beings. By acting in the world, the will reshapes the world , which in turn reacts back to condition the will. Thus the will and the world exist in dialectical relationship with each other in a contradictory manner.

        This constant acting and forming and reacting back and reordering the conditions towards more freedom are the essential ways the will and the world exist and complement each other and serve the purpose of existence of all things. In human life this relationship exists as relation between the perceptible world  received through the body and the imperceptible realm acknowledged by the mind. The brain with its neuronal structures provides the material ground where the will acts and manifests as mind. The evolution of the brain and the power of the will to emerge as higher mind decide the realm of consciousness in which human life is engaged in. The realm of consciousness depends on the degree of complexity of the brain and power of the will to fathom greater realms of the mind. Will illumines the world, and brings forth the unseen and imperceptible realms to cognition and experience of life.

       Life is an opportunity for every human being to make a journey through these realms of the mind, which appear as work and action of the will seeking to explore the realities by using the physical state of the brain.  When the brain ceases to function these experiences come to an end. The brain cells, as long as they have not degenerated retain the patterns of thoughts, memories and experiences and these information can be retrieved if the cells can be activated and made to cooperate and function as when one was in life. The mind of the person disappears  when these information are irreversibly lost. With the decomposition of the brain the information disappear and the mind of the person can not be retrieved any longer. However the will, which had taken its appearance as mind in the presence of the neuronal networks of the brain, remains inseparably entangled in the world. It remains existing after the person has deceased. The will creates pattern in the same way in another functioning brain and generates personal character of another person in life.

      So different individual persons are manifestation of the will which remains always in the world. Like the constituents of the material world which have universal and unique features, the will also bears universal characters. The enormous varieties of the physical appearances which we see in the world can be reduced to complex arrangements of certain fundamental units bound together by a few fundamental forces of nature. Similarly the enormous varieties of the personal traits, characters and behaviors of the living creatures can be derived from the same fundamental elements of the will acting and moving under certain motivational forces. Like the fundamental particles forming the material universe, there exists fundamental will which determines the movement of consciousness in the living world.

      So at the origin of all  minds lie the same forces of the will which acts in the world and emerges as different characters and persons. While in life a person has an opportunity to access the power and knowledge of the will which animates all human minds. By attaining knowledge about the universal nature of the will and its working in the world one may realize the oneness of the self with the rest of  the living world. You may call this universal power of the will as the Will of All. It is same in all though when it manifests through the brain of a person it may take a different appearance of mind and consciousness than in other individuals. The brain is endowed with the capacity to tap the information about the nature of the will itself.  This power constitutes the so-called spiritual realm, which falls outside the knowledge of the physical world moving in space and time.

       Keep the perspective that you are a part of the whole which moves as the world and the will and manifests as individual minds following the physical state of the body where the will works and acts. The individual traits reflect the nature of the physical world and the conditions of freedom in which the will moves. The intellect, emotion and awareness which define the mind of a person are very similar in most individuals. The security, comfort and pleasure which one may derive from the company of others bring attachment to life and creates desire to hold on to life as one knows. Death creates the fear of loosing these pleasant and comforting moments of living. So people, who are being loved and who love someone, find death as an unpleasant end of life.

       Once you gain the perspective that there exists a higher will in the world which moves besides the will driving man to seek biological security, you will know that the world is a realm of love. This higher will appears as the emotions of love and compassion for all.  This will acts and works in the world to guide life to experience a universal love for all. Those who have experienced the power of this will in their minds know that there is no loss even when the brain ceases to function as in a living body. The power of the higher will which animates all, and appears through all, acts even when one does not exist as a person. The will which has taken abode in one, remains in life even when one has ceased to exist as an individual being. By knowing that one exists to enact the will, which never disappears in the world, and experiencing that one lives life as part of a higher being, who lives in all, one can see the disappearance of the person as the movement of light from one place to another place which kindles illumination of the mind wherever it moves.

      Keep a perspective that life is a process through which the great mind emerges in the world to illumine the life of the living creatures. The great mind never ceases. The purpose of life`s journey should be to experience this great mind and know one`s true identity as a part of the One, who never dies or disappears from life. Lift you vision from the person that you think you are. You are a part of the great mind and submit your will  to the higher power and be one with All.