Shiva Sutras
karaṇa śaktiḥ svato'nubhavāt
Let's say this translates into
the power of creation.
The power of creation
resides in you.
And then I'll read a little bit from Alex Man.
And then we'll expand on that.
It is the experience of each and every individual being that
while they are in the dreaming state or using their imagination,
they have
the power to create and destroy as they will. This is called
karaṇa śaktiḥ
When you're intoxicated with alcohol,
you can think that you are the lord of the universe and that no power can weaken you.
This is your conception in that state
or when you enter the dreaming state, you can create an automobile to drive.
You can also create the road to drive
on and the fields and vegetation to drive through.
In this dream. The road is
created by you
in your consciousness.
The motorcar
is created by you in your consciousness
and the fields and vegetations are also created by you in your consciousness.
Yeah,
it is you who is seated in the car
and
that "you" who sits in the car
is also created by you in the dream state.
everything in this dream is you:
the car, the automobile, the vegetation, the trees, the countryside,
and you in the car.
If someone
comes in front of you and stops your car, that is also you.
In this dream, you create the entire universe
yourself. Because in dreams, no one else is created except
that which you have imagined
and dreamed.
So in this way, the power of creation is experienced by every individual,
but it is carried to the next level
in the self
realize Yogi
it is your own experience that in the world
of imagination or in the world of dreaming,
you have the power of doing and undoing, enabling you to create a world
by your own power of thinking
a world you are unable to create
seemingly
in the waking state.
OK? So let's see what else he says.
It is said in the Tattvagarbha:
when these individuals who are masters of the dreaming state and
the world of imagination discard the absence of the establishment of awareness
and secure and strengthen the power of their awareness,
then their desire becomes just like the heavenly
wish fulfilling tree
(kalpataru)
they become like pure consciousness, Shiva and just
like
Shiva, whatever they desire,
whatever they think
that manifests in the waking state.
Because the waking state is also
a dream state in which
your physical body is
is also part of the dream. And that fictional body mind
and then
the universe it projects is also
a collect is a
individual dreamscape, but part of the matrix of the collective dreamscape,
that's which we call the universe
is
the collective dream state
that is projected
by the subtle
and and physical so-called physical bodies
in their interactions. So the subtle and physical bodies in their interactions
project
the human universe, which includes, of course,
the human universe includes animals and plants and rocks and trees and
the milky way galaxy and two trillion
Galaxies and uncountable trillions of planets,
70 sextillion stars. a magnificent,
amazing
human universe.
So let's
project this and expand this a little further.
OK. So what's the difference between the waking state and the dreaming state?
The dreaming state is very fine frequency domains
or excitation of consciousness,
the
the waking state and its projection as this physical universe,
this hotel I'm in and you know, the mountain I can see outside the window
and the other buildings.
This is my lucid dream in this moment,
but it's not the truth. OK.
A lucid dream in the present moment.
How do we define a dream? A dream is defined as something that's un graspable,
that is uncatchable, that is ephemeral, that is transient, that is momentary.
And as soon as you
have the experience, it's over,
even this experience that you're having of
listening to me or watching me on your computer or handheld device,
it's un graspable.
Why?
Because by the time you hear my words, by the time you see me,
by the time you recognize me, what you saw is over.
And so
actually, you're seeing a ghost right now,
everything you're seeing is part of the collective dreamscape.
And we are ghosts. The physical body is a ghost in that collective dreamscape.
And so are trees and animals and rocks and plants.
This seems bizarre because according to current theories,
if you look them up on,
you know, chat GPT or Wikipedia,
then there are two models competing
for what creates the
visible universe, including of course, the visible universe includes
our body as well.
And they are, you know, on the one hand,
the Big Bang theory that the universe suddenly
appeared as a dot
that had or even zero volume
but infinite density and temperature.
And that started the expansion of the universe
and it's still expanding and ultimately expand
to the heat depth of absolute zero.
And
then maybe we'll start all over again.
OK, Big Balance, Big Bang or whatever. That's one
a field of inquiry scientifically.
The other field of inquiry is of course, the quantum field theory which says that
there is a quantum vacuum state
which is brimming with virtual particles
that appear in and out of the quantum vacuum
as determined by the uncertainty principle.
These two theories actually don't
agree on
a
unified model of what the universe is.
So
what is science then doing is it telling us the truth or it is
creating models of what we think the truth is because science is also begins
with
consciousness. Science is an activity in consciousness, as I've said before,
theories are conceived in consciousness,
experiments are designed in consciousness,
observations are made in consciousness interpreted in consciousness.
So science is a particular methodology for
creating models of the physical universe.
But current science
cannot tell you
why there is a quantum vacuum
and can't even tell you why the Big Bang occurred or why did occur when it occurred
apparently occurred everywhere.
Because the cosmic microwave background is coming to us from everywhere.
Omni
omnipresent,
omniscient,
omnipotent
infinite power to create the expanding universe.
So the model is getting close to what could be
the real reality.
But no model
is the experience
of reality.
It is an interpretation of reality.
So if you want to experience reality,
then you have to go past the models,
go past the secret passages, the dark
alleys, the ghost filled attics
of the collective mind, which is also
localizing as the individual mind squeezed into the volume
of a body in the span of a lifetime.
But even that is not accurate because the real
you cannot be squeezed into the volume of a body
of the span of a lifetime because all
experience occurs in consciousness including this experience.
So where is this experience happening?
You're seeing me listening to me, you have a computer,
you have the room you're in,
you have your own body, you have your own mind.
All this is entangled
in the deeper domain. But where is this experience happening?
Not in the brain, only electro chemistry, not even in the body.
In fact,
the body and the brain are and the mind and the projected universe are all happening
in nonlocal awareness. So this experience in every experience is happening
is processed, interpreted,
conceived governed and comes into existence and remains nonlocal
while being interpreted by the separate mind as local.
The separate mind is a misinterpretation.
The mind is entangled with all minds.
Your mind cannot be localized into your brain or your body. It's a process
and it's a process that regulates the flow of energy information and the ecosystem
of living beings, but it's also flowing. It doesn't, it's not static, it's dynamic,
whatever that quantum field is, it's a dynamic field
and it's not
an empty void,
whatever the singularity is, it has the potential
to create infinite universes.
So, and those models also exist in human consciousness
or consciousness, not even human.
The human mind exists in that nonlocal consciousness
which is the immeasurable potential of all that is was and it'll be it will be.
So this present moment is actually eternal. The
the present moment is eternal. But what's happening in the present moment
is ephemeral, transient,
un graspable
dream,
dreams.
So we are dreamers, we are dreamers, Wittgenstein again, I love to quote, this,
our life is a dream.
We are asleep, but once in a while, we wake up enough to know that we're dreaming.
So who's the dreamer? What is the dreamer?
The dreamer is not an individual can't be
because the individual
is contained in the dream.
And the Yogi having constant awareness of the source of all creation
is in charge of both the ephemeral dream at night
which becomes lucid
as we pay attention to it, observe it.
And this lucid dream in the vivid now
which is also ephemeral, but the Yogi is totally established
in the Self that is projecting that dream.
So now the Yogi has the power
to wake up
in that dream
and then manifest any dream. Recognizing
that even though the manifestation
appears physical,
it's
part of the dreamscape.
Everything that we call physical
is non-physical.
Everything that we call physical is non-physical.
And
that which we call the physical is just an interpretation of changing perceptions,
images, feelings, thoughts,
interpretations
by
the collective
matrix of mind.
There's no individual mind.
You can't find it.
If you try hard enough, you will not find an individual mind.
If you try hard enough, you won't find a individual body
nor will you find
an individual object.
Because everything that we call an object is a transient
expression
of
changing perceptions, images, feelings and thoughts. All nonlocal
interpreted
as the theater of space time and causality
by
the cultural mind.
And that's OK. These models are very useful.
I wouldn't be able to speak to you on this computer
if we didn't have these models to create this experience. So the models
also actually create the experience,
but they create the experience of separation and differentiation.
The Yogi knows that the source of all this
separation and differentiation
is itself pure consciousness,
pure consciousness,
constantly recycling, evolving to higher levels of creativity.
And you are that. Creative.
So humans have had many interpretations
of creation, God. Some deity created the universe, the deity can't be found.
And we have Newtonian physics which is all about cause effect in the
material domain.
And then you have quantum mechanics which
goes to the realm of uncertainty and superposition
and entanglement.
Then you have the Grand Unified Field theory, the Big Bang, et cetera.
They all give slightly different interpretations
of how we interpret
our own sensations, images, feelings, thoughts,
we are the dreamer,
we are the dreaming
and we are
the dream, you
and me
dreaming
this
into existence.
The power of creation
is in you.