Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness

Consciousness: The term consciousness is derived primarily from the Latin word conscious, "knowing and being aware." Consequently, consciousness is the basic factor of perception and understanding. If Consciousness is perception, it is the foundation and first move of a realistic starting point: where one can discuss questions about God, examine our doubts, and explore this issue - the trickiest of topics about any living thing. Since living things are not equal and have a great deal of variety, so too does consciousness: it has infinite potential for development, either towards the heights of human perfection through deliberate effort for godlike perfection or towards the depths of human degeneration. It is a powerful inner vision of humanity’s ultimate and eternal fulfilment through a life of human perfection. The nervous system must receive and process information about the world outside in order to react, communicate, and keep the body healthy and safe. Much of this information comes through the sensory organs: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. Specialized cells and tissues within these organs receive raw stimuli and translate them into signals the nervous system can use. Nerves relay the signals to the brain, which interprets them as sight (vision), sound (hearing), smell (olfaction), taste (gustation), and touch (tactile perception). What is it in the brain that interprets? The brain is a complex organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates our body. World-leading research underpins a huge range of innovations which create prosperity, improve quality of life, protect the environment and enrich our culture. For over 800 years, we have contributed to society through education, learning and research at the highest levels of international excellence. Human perfection is the loftiest of human possibilities - an activity, a pursuit, not a thing or static state. Practice is directed toward the attainment of some ideal. To replicate or achieve a desired end, with repetition and dedication. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ Love is the indispensable, essential foundation, of development and purification of the individual for the construction of a serene, enlightened and wholesome culture. Love in its spiritualized form, can draw its inspiration from spiritual love conceived as a consuming flame, aspiring towards purification. Spiritual love that looks for guidance to the love of a mother for her child uplifts itself to the ideal of the pure fount of all safety, welfare and spiritual health. It is this kind of love which the Krishna and Buddha take as the basis for his teaching us universal love. Greeks distinguish between sensual eros (Sneha) and spiritual agape (Prema) the English are satisfied with only the one word "love" for liking, affection, fondness, attachment, and friendship. But Sanskrit, has many words covering many shades of meaning. The word chosen by the Buddha is Metta from Mitra, a friend (or better "the true friend and guide who comfort you to the end.” Metta in the Buddha's teaching finds its place as the first of four kinds of contemplation designed to develop a sound comforting relationship to other living beings: they are "loving-kindness," karuna, which is "compassion";” “gladness at others' success;" and "onlooking equanimity." These four are (brahma-vihara), because whoever can maintain any one of them in being, for even a moment, has lived for that moment, as do the ‘highest gods’ (the Upanishad asserts that one's Soul is Brahman, and this Ultimate Reality, Cosmic Universal or God is within each living being). It equates the atman (Soul, Self) within to be Brahma and various alternate manifestations of Brahman or Brahma Deva). In all Eastern teachings, the "greatest of all worldly merit," if practiced alone, without insight into the true nature of existence, can lead to rebirth in the highest heavens. But all heavenly existence is impermanent, and at the end of the heavenly lifespan, no matter how long it may last, the being dies and is reborn according to his past actions. This is because some craving for existence (for being or even for non-being) and some sort of view of existence that is not in conformity with truth remain latent in him, to burst out again when the result of the good actions is spent. And where he will be reborn after that is unpredictable though it is certain that he will be reborn. Teaching of Insight is the training in Knowledge and seeing of how it is that anything, comes to be; how it acquires existence through dependence on conditions; and its impermanence existence, is always multifaceted and impermanent. It is in need of a ‘self’ which lures it on but can never find; for the comforting illusion is constantly to be renewed. However, teaching also shows how there is a true way out from fear of pain. The way avoids the two extremes of sensual indulgence and of self-mortification. The practice of loving-kindness alone gives the right view that Nirvana can be reached. Right View gives insight into the nature of ‘existence’ of being and non-being, with all its mirages and deceptions, and it is only with its help that the practice of lovingkindness is perfected and directed to the true cessation of suffering. That true cessation comes with the elimination of deception by wrong views and with the exhaustion of the stream of craving in its two forms of lust and hate. This extinction of lust, hate and delusion, is called Nibbana. Get rid of all your defilements which are rooted in greed, hatred, and delusion. Purify yourself of all desires and realize absolute selflessness. Lead a life of right moral conduct and from all selfishness and illusion. Nirvana cannot be experienced by indulging the senses but calming them. Wretchedness of all anger and hate; the rewards of loving-kindness; the practice of loving-kindness as a meditation and contemplation; its result is seeing of all things and all existence as impermanent, suffering and not-self, that is needed in order to have a vision in conformity with truth. With this insight into how being comes to be that it is seen why the price of birth and life, even in heaven, is death. Lastly the attainment of insight into the true nature of existence, by which all lust, hate, and delusion are overcome, lust for being and even for non-being cured, and rebirth ended for good. Loving-kindness has the mode of friendliness for its characteristic. It promotes friendliness is manifested as the disappearance of ill-will; its foundation is seeing with kindness. When it fails it degenerates into selfish affectionate desire." The Sages since time of yore recommend going to some quiet place, where one can sit down in a comfortable position. Meditation is to displace hate by forbearance. Right at the start, the meditation of loving-kindness should be developed towards oneself and loved ones repeatedly. Then with repeated practice, absorption is attained in all cases. Loving-kindness can now be effectively maintained in being towards all beings; or to certain groups of beings at a time, or in one direction at a time to all; or to certain groups in succession. Loving-kindness ought to be brought to the point where there are no longer any barriers set between persons. Loving-kindness has its "enemy within" in lust, which easily gains entry in its wake, and it must be well guarded against this. Concentration alone lacks direction; understanding alone is dry and tiring. The Self is the Supreme Mothering Physician of the ‘self’ – the “I-Me-Myself,” prescribes the development of five faculties in balanced harmony: the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and understanding. So, concentration of Love in its highest form — the form that only a Cosmic Mother has given — is seen as a means to the end of Samsara. It becomes absolutely purified in one who has gained personal experience of the "supreme safety from bondage" through a Cosmic Connection, as the ultimate welfare of beings. For he or she knows from one’s own experience that their welfare is only assured permanently when suffering has been diagnosed, its origin abandoned, its termination realized through Oneness, and the way maintained in being forever connected. It is through not discovering, not penetrating these facts about the roundabout of rebirths, that these facts remain undiscovered. The term ‘Cosmic Consciousness’ denotes a higher or exceptional spiritual level of awareness and consciousness. This special type of awareness may be associated with an experience of “knowing God," or of transcending the five basic senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch and finding a hidden consciousness or reality which is beyond the perceivable world. Cosmic Consciousness: Richard Maurice Bucke (1837 – 1902), often called Maurice Bucke, was a prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century. An adventurer during his youth, Bucke later studied medicine. Eventually, as a psychiatrist, he headed the provincial Asylum for the Insane in London, Ontario. Bucke wrote three books, including Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind, which is his best-known work. When he left home at the age of 16, he traveled to California. Along the way, Bucke was part of a travelling party who had to fight for their lives when they were attacked by Shoshone Indians, on whose territory they were trespassing. In the winter of 1857–58, he was nearly frozen to death in the mountains of California, where he was the sole survivor of a silver-mining party. He had to walk out over the mountains and suffered extreme frostbite, for which several of his toes were amputated. He then returned to in 1858. Bucke enrolled in McGill University's medical school in Montreal. Here he delivered a thesis in 1862. Although he practiced general medicine he later specialized in psychiatry. He was an enthusiast for Auguste Comte's Comte (1798–1857) a positivist philosopher who claimed religion belonged to the childhood of the human race.... “all genuine knowledge is contained within the boundaries of science a philosophical and political movement” a statement which enjoyed a wide diffusion in the second half of the nineteenth century. He turned Science into philosophy; and then into religion. Today’s common conception of positivism corresponds mainly to what can be found in the Course. Comte's ‘religion’ meant spirituality, which had been outmoded by science which Bucke's later belief concerned with the nature of reality. Experiencing Cosmic Consciousness: He continued this practice until his death, despite receiving increasing amounts of criticism from the medical health care community; but in the meantime he experienced Cosmic Consciousness: In 1872, after an evening of stimulating conversation with his friend Walt Whitman in the countryside, Richard M Bucke was traveling back to London in a buggy. He relates: “I was in a state of quiet, almost passive enjoyment. All at once, without warning of any kind, I found myself wrapped around as it were by a flame-coloured cloud. For an instant I thought of fire, some sudden conflagration in the great city; the next, I knew that the Light was within me. “Directly afterward came upon me a sense of exultation, of immense joyousness accompanied by an intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe. “Into my brain streamed one momentary lightning—flash of the Divine Splendor which has ever since lightened my life; upon my heart fell one drop of Divine Bliss, leaving thenceforward for always an aftertaste of heaven. “Among other things, I did not come to believe: I saw and knew that the Cosmos is not dead matter but a living Presence, that the soul of man is immortal, that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all, that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of everyone in the long run is absolutely certain. “I learned more within the few seconds that illumination lasted than in all my previous years of study and I learned much that no study could ever have taught.” In Cosmic Consciousness, Bucke stated that he discerned three forms, or degrees, of consciousness: • • • Simple consciousness, possessed by both animals and mankind. Self-consciousness, possessed by mankind, encompassing thought, reason, and imagination. Cosmic consciousness, which is "a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man." According to Bucke, “This consciousness shows the cosmos to consist not of dead matter governed by unconscious, rigid, and unintending law; it shows it on the contrary as entirely immaterial, entirely spiritual and entirely alive; it shows that death is an absurdity, that everyone and everything has eternal life; it shows that the universe is God and that God is the universe, and that no evil ever did or ever will enter into it; a great deal of this is, of course, from the point of view of selfconsciousness, absurd; it is nevertheless undoubtedly true.” Moores said that Bucke's cosmic consciousness is an interconnected way of seeing things "which is more of an intuitive knowing than it is a factual understanding”. Moores pointed out that, for scholars of the purist camp, the experience of cosmic consciousness is incomplete without the element of love, "which is the foundation of mystical consciousness". Mysticism, then, is the perception of the universe and all of its seemingly disparate entities existing in a unified whole bound together by love. Juan A. Herrero Brasas said that Bucke's cosmic consciousness refers to the evolution of the intellect, and not to "the ineffable revelation of hidden truths". William James equated Bucke's cosmic consciousness with mystical experience or mystical consciousness. Gary Lachman notes that today Bucke's experience would most likely be "explained" by the so-called "God spot", or more generally as a case of temporal lobe epilepsy, Cosmic Consciousness: This exalted, blissful experience comes through intuition or Samadhi. The lower mind is withdrawn from the external, objective world. The senses are abstracted in the mind. The individual mind becomes one with the cosmic mind or Hiranyagarbha or the Oversoul, the Soul of the Universe, the one common thread-soul or Sutratman. The function of the intellect, the objective mind and the senses are suspended. The Yogi becomes a living soul and sees into the life of things through his new divine eye of intuition or wisdom. The state of Cosmic Consciousness is grand and sublime. It is beyond description. The mind and speech return from it baffled, as they are not able to grasp and describe it. The language and words are imperfect. It induces awe, Supreme Joy and Highest Unalloyed Felicity, free from pain, sorrow and fear. This is divine experience. It is a revelation of the Karana Jagat, the causal world wherein the types are realised directly. Sri Shankara, Dattatreya’s, Vama Deva, Mahabharata, Mansoor, Shams Tabriz, Madalasa, Yajnavalkya, Ram Das, Tulasi Das, Kabir, Hafiz, Tukaram, Mira, Gouranga, Madhvacharya, Ramanujacharya, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and Zoroaster, had experience of Cosmic Consciousness. These Yogis who have experienced Cosmic Consciousness acquire all Divine Aishwaryas. He attains many kinds of Siddhis or powers, which are described in Shrimad Bhagavata and Raja Yoga of Patanjali Maharshi. Arjuna, Sanjaya and Yashoda had the experience of Cosmic Consciousness. Yashoda saw the whole universe within the mouth of Baal Krishna. The Gita describes the state of cosmic consciousness through the mouth of Arjuna in these words: "Thy mighty form with many mouths and eyes, long-armed, with thighs and feet innumerable, vast-bosomed, set with many fearful teeth, radiant, Thou touchest heaven, rainbow-hued, with open mouths and shining vast-orbed eyes on every side, all-swallowing, fiery-tongued, Thou lickest up mankind devouring all into Thy gaping mouths, which are tremendous-toothed and terrible to see. Some caught within the gaps between Thy teeth, are seen with their heads to powder crushed and ground." In France, Professor Bergson preached about intuition which transcends reason but did not contradict it. Henri-Louis Bergson (1859 –1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. According to Swami Sivananda (1887 –1963) a Hindu spiritual teacher and a proponent of Yoga and Vedanta, this new experience bestows new enlightenment which places the experiencer on a new plane of existence. There is an indescribable feeling of elation and indescribable joy and Bliss. He experiences a sense of universality, a Consciousness of Eternal Life. It is not a mere conviction. He feels it. He gets the eye Celestial. It is the Light on the Internal Self in the Deepest Self in Man. The body is illumined by a twofold consciousness in the same manner as a wall, for example, can be illumined by two types of light. Just as a wall can be lighted up directly by the sun as well as by the reflection of the sun through a mirror, and we can observe the natural sunlight on the wall existing in the middle of the different patches of reflected light, so also, we can observe the natural consciousness of the Atman between different thoughts and feelings, in the short span of time when one thought subsides, and another thought has not yet arisen. The human mind gets attached to certain objects, and its perception is always coloured by the nature of the object to such an extent that there is no time left for the mind to contemplate the Consciousness as it is in itself, unconnected with the objects. It is possible by careful and thorough investigation and psychological processes to differentiate between the factors that belong to the object and those that belong to Pure Consciousness. In the waking, the dreaming, as well as in the deep sleep states, it is possible to make this analysis by which we are enabled to dissect consciousness from the object. An object is known by the mind with the assistance of Chidabhasa-chaitanya (consciousness reflected through the intellect, or the psyche), and it is by this that we know there is such a thing as an object or a form, but the Consciousness behind the ‘I’, which is at the background of even the object consciousness is BrahmaChaitanya (Absolute Consciousness), designated here as Kutastha (internal Self). The knowledge, “This is a body” is brought about by the Chidabhasa, and the knowledge, “I know the body” has its reference to Kutastha. Even the knowledge of the absence of an object is based on the Consciousness of the Kutastha, and it is this very Consciousness that enables later, the form of perception in relation to an object. As an arrow may be sharpened with a pointed steelhead for the sake of hitting objects, the Buddhi, or the intellect, has the projecting form of Consciousness of the Chidabhasa. It is when this Chidabhasa begins to act that we have objectconsciousness; otherwise, there is ignorance of it, the Consciousness not being particularised. Both the unknown and known conditions of an object are, thus, finally rooted in Brahman-Consciousness, as Kutastha-Chaitanya. The intellect by itself cannot know an object because it is, after all, a modification of Prakriti (cosmic matter). Just as matter cannot know matter, the intellect cannot know an object. What is known is material and what knows is Consciousness. The freedom of the Consciousness lies in its Self-realisation that it is independent and absolute and is not really tainted by the nature of any object at all. The Jivahood has gone now. The little ‘I' has melted. The differentiating mind that splits up has vanished. All barriers, all sense of duality, differences, separateness have disappeared. There is no idea of time and space. There is only eternity. The ideas of caste, creed and colour have gone now. He has the feeling of Apta-Kama (one who has obtained all that he desires). He feels, "There is nothing more to be known by me." He feels perfect awareness of superconscious plane of Knowledge and intuition. He knows the whole secret of Creation. He is Omniscient. He is a Sarva-Vit or Knower of all details of Creation. One who practices teachings of the Upanishads attains to the supreme. He breaks the knot of the heart, clears all doubts and destroys all sins. He enters the All. He is liberated from embodiment. He becomes immortal. He becomes the Self of all. He is an Apta Kama. He is really blessed. He crosses over sorrow. He crosses over sin. He does not return to the mortal coil. He exists as the absolute. Absolute fearlessness, desirelessness, thoughtlessness, I-lessness, mine-lessness, angerlessness, Brahmic aura in the face, freedom from Harsha and Shoka (Gita 18.27) are some of the signs that indicate that the man has reached the state of superconsciousness. Harsha and Shoka are the results of action, when one acts and gets the result, when the result is positive one gets jubilation and when one doesn’t get the result there is dejection so what happens is passion; the focus is not in action but in its consequence: so one has to focus on action and not on result. He is also always in a state of perfect bliss. You can never see anger, depression, cheerlessness and sorrow on his face. One will find elevation, joy and peace in his presence. Cosmic consciousness is perfect awareness of the oneness of life. The Yogi feels that the universe is filled with one life. He feels that there is no such thing as blind force or dead matter and that all is alive, vibrating and intelligent. This is the experience of scientist Bose also. He has demonstrated it through laboratory experiments. He who has cosmic consciousness feels that the universe is all his. He is one with the Supreme Lord. He is one with the Universal knowledge and Life. He experiences bliss and joy beyond understanding and description. In the moment of illumination or great spiritual exaltation he has the actual divine universal vision. He is conscious of being in the presence of God. He sees the light of God's countenance. He is lifted above the ordinary plane of consciousness. He reaches a higher state of consciousness. He has a cosmic or universal understanding. He has developed the cosmic sense. The human soul is revolutionised. He does not worry about death or future, about what may come after the cessation of the life of the present body. He is one with Eternity, Infinity and Immortality! During illumination, the floodgate of joy breaks. The Yogi is inundated with waves of indescribable ecstasy. Bliss, Immortality, Eternity, Truth, Divine Love become the core of his being, the essence of his life, the only possible reality. He realises that the deep, everlasting fountain of joy exists in every heart, that the immortal life underlies all beings, that this eternal, all-embracing, all-inclusive love envelops, supports and guides every particle, every atom of creation. Sin, sorrow, death is but words now for him without meaning. He feels that the elixir of life, the nectar of immortality is flowing in his veins. He feels no need for food or sleep. He is absolutely desireless. There is a great change in his appearance and manner. His face shines with a radiant light. His eyes are lustrous. They are pools of joy and bliss. He feels that the entire world is bathed in a sea of satisfying love, or immortal bliss which is the very essence of life. The whole world is home to him. He could never feel strange or alien to any place. The mountains, the distant lands which he has never seen would be as much as his own, as the home of his boyhood. He feels that the whole world is his body. He feels that all hands, all feet are his. Fatigue is unknown to him. His work is like child's play, happy and care-free. He beholds only God everywhere. Chair, table, tree have a Cosmic significance. His breath will stop completely sometimes. He experiences Absolute Peace. Time and space vanish. Cosmic Consciousness is an inherent, natural faculty of all men and women. Training and discipline are necessary to awaken the consciousness. It is already present in man. It is inactive, or non-functioning in most human beings on account of the force of Avidya or ignorance. May you all attain the State of Cosmic Consciousness, your birthright, center, ideal and goal, through association with the sages, purity, love, devotion and Knowledge! Cosmic Consciousness: This exalted, blissful experience comes through intuition or Samadhi. The lower mind is withdrawn from the external, objective world. The senses are abstracted in the mind. The individual mind becomes one with the cosmic mind or Hiranyagarbha or the Oversoul, the Soul of the Universe, the one common thread-soul or Sutratman. The function of the intellect, the objective mind and the senses are suspended. The Yogi becomes a living soul and sees into the life of things through his new divine eye of intuition or wisdom. The state of Cosmic Consciousness is grand and sublime. It is beyond description. The mind and speech return from it baffled, as they are not able to grasp and describe it. The language and words are imperfect. It induces awe, Supreme Joy and Highest Unalloyed Felicity, free from pain, sorrow and fear. This is divine experience. It is a revelation of the Karana Jagat, the causal world wherein the types are realised directly. Sri Shankara, Dattatreya, Vama Deva, Jadabharata, Mansoor, Shams Tabriez, Madalasa, Yajnavalkya, Ram Das, Tulasi Das, Kabir, Hafiz, Tukaram, Mira, Gouranga, Madhvacharya, Ramanujacharya, Lord Jesus, Lord Buddha, Lord Mohammed, Lord Zoroaster, had experience of Cosmic Consciousness. The Yogi who has experience of Cosmic Consciousness acquires all Divine Aishwaryas. He attains many kinds of Siddhis or powers, which are described in Shrimad Bhagavata and Raja Yoga of Patanjali Maharshi. Arjuna, Sanjaya and Yashoda had the experience of Cosmic Consciousness. Yashoda saw the whole universe within the mouth of Bal Krishna. The Gita describes the state of cosmic consciousness through the mouth of Arjuna in these words: "Thy mighty form with many mouths and eyes, long-armed, with thighs and feet innumerable, vast-bosomed, set with many fearful teeth, radiant, Thou touchest heaven, rainbow-hued, with open mouths and shining vast-orbed eyes on every side, all-swallowing, fiery-tongued, Thou lickest up mankind devouring all into Thy gaping mouths, which are tremendous-toothed and terrible to see. Some caught within the gaps between Thy teeth, are seen with their heads to powder crushed and ground." In France, Professor Bergson preached about intuition which transcends reason but did not contradict it. “This new experience bestows new enlightenment which places the experiencer on a new plane of existence. There is an indescribable feeling of elation and indescribable joy and Bliss. He experiences a sense of universality, a Consciousness of Eternal Life. It is not a mere conviction. He feels it. He gets the eye Celestial.” The Jivahood has gone now. The little ‘I' has melted. The differentiating mind that splits up has vanished. All barriers, all sense of duality, differences, separateness have disappeared. There is no idea of time and space. There is only eternity. The ideas of caste, creed and colour have gone now. He has the feeling of Apta-Kama (one who has obtained all that he desires). He feels, "There is nothing more to be known by me." He feels perfect awareness of superconscious plane of Knowledge and intuition. He knows the whole secret of Creation. He is Omniscient. He is a Sarva-Vit or Knower of all details of Creation. Absolute fearlessness, desirelessness, thoughtlessness, I-lessness, mine-lessness, angerlessness, Brahmic aura in the face, freedom from Harsha and Shoka are some of the signs that indicate that the man has reached the state of superconsciousness. He is also always in a state of perfect bliss. You can never see anger, depression, cheerlessness and sorrow in his face. You will find elevation, joy and peace in his presence. Cosmic consciousness is perfect awareness of the oneness of life. The Yogi feels that the universe is filled with one life. He feels that there is no such thing as blind force or dead matter and that all is alive, vibrating and intelligent. This is the experience of scientist Bose also. He has demonstrated it through laboratory experiments. He who has cosmic consciousness feels that the universe is all his. He is one with the Supreme Lord. He is one with the Universal knowledge and Life. He experiences bliss and joy beyond understanding and description. In the moment of illumination or great spiritual exaltation he has the actual divine universal vision. He is conscious of being in the presence of God. He sees the light of God's countenance. He is lifted above the ordinary plane of consciousness. He reaches a higher state of consciousness. He has a cosmic or universal understanding. He has developed the cosmic sense. The human soul is revolutionised. He does not worry about death or future, about what may come after the cessation of the life of the present body. He is one with Eternity, Infinity and Immortality! During illumination, the floodgate of joy breaks. The Yogi is inundated with waves of indescribable ecstasy. Bliss, Immortality, Eternity, Truth, Divine Love become the core of his being, the essence of his life, the only possible reality. He realises that the deep, everlasting fountain of joy exists in every heart, that the immortal life underlies all beings, that this eternal, all-embracing, all-inclusive love envelops, supports and guides every particle, every atom of creation. Sin, sorrow, death is but words now for him without meaning. He feels that the elixir of life, the nectar of immortality is flowing in his veins. He feels no need for food or sleep. He is absolutely desireless. There is a great change in his appearance and manner. His face shines with a radiant light. His eyes are lustrous. They are pools of joy and bliss. He feels that the entire world is bathed in a sea of satisfying love, or immortal bliss which is the very essence of life. The whole world is home to him. He could never feel strange or alien to any place. The mountains, the distant lands which he has never seen would be as much as his own, as the home of his boyhood. He feels that the whole world is his body. He feels that all hands, all feet are his. Fatigue is unknown to him. His work is like child's play, happy and care-free. He beholds only God everywhere. Chair, table, tree have a Cosmic significance. His breath will stop completely sometimes. He experiences Absolute Peace. Time and space vanish. Cosmic Consciousness is an inherent, natural faculty of all men and women. Training and discipline are necessary to awaken the consciousness. It is already present in man. It is inactive, or non-functioning in most human beings on account of the force of Avidya or ignorance. May you all attain the State of Cosmic Consciousness, your birthright, center, ideal and goal, through association with the sages, purity, love, devotion and Knowledge!