Shiva Sutras
continued,
tatpravṛttāvapyanirāsaḥ saṁvettṛbhāvāt
I'm gonna skip the Lakshmanjoo
commentary and translation right now. It's a bit
difficult and arcane.
So let's go with
a contemporary interpretation which still
holds true to the ancient wisdom.
So
this Shiva
Sutra is saying that awareness remains as awareness
throughout the cycles of creativity, maintenance, destruction,
concealment, and resurrection.
This is the creative process.
So let's examine this. OK,
purusha is pure consciousness
and
purusha is frequently also equated or in this system,
Kashmir Shivaism
purusha is the same as pure consciousness,
infinite possibilities, infinite correlation, entanglement,
nonlocal correlation.
That's number two, number three, unpredictability,
you can recognize some
quantum mechanical principles here. Number three, unpredictability.
Number four,
the source of attention and intention. You might even call that the observer effect
in any way.
Those are the five most important qualities of pure consciousness,
infinite possibilities,
nonlocal correlation, unpredictability
and what we call the observer effect, attention and intention.
There are others: self regulation, self organization, self evolution, recycling
and progression.
But
this consciousness engages in the creative process through these five cycles.
Creativity,
which is
the first movement of consciousness, creativity
and what is creativity, it is a disruption,
it's non algorithmic. It's
the closest you can think of it is
Gödel's theorem.
You know, some thing that is true but can't be proven.
And yet it is non algorithmic. It's a disruption.
So that's
how creativity starts from pure consciousness.
And that creative process includes complementarity, which means
the understanding that opposites are
complementary aspects of the same underlying reality. That's one thing.
The second aspect is recycling and evolution
of everything
that is created information, energy
matter
and fragmented
awareness as well.
So recycling but then evolution to higher levels of abstraction and
so on.
That creative process
then
involves
interaction between
seemingly unrelated parts or activities.
Once again, that's entanglement,
interactive intelligence.
If you want to call it that between
elements and forces that have already been created.
But then there's a,
there's something called maintenance, sustenance, sustainability.
What is created is sustained
at a micro level
for a very
short time, like
maybe a
fraction of a second, a photon blips in and out of
existence, an electron does the same thing.
But in a cosmic level
at a very macro level
from you might say black hole to the heat death of absolute zero.
And yet
we can think of this as underlying principles
of the same reality from microcosm to macrocosm. Some physicists also call this or
some thinkers also called this recursion.
So there's maintenance and then there's destruction.
What has been created is destroyed
to
what purpose?
What is the role of destruction?
You've heard that phrase maybe from from
Alfred Lord Tennyson and idols of the king.
The old order change a healing place to new
and God fulfill, fulfills himself in many ways,
lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
So even the good has to be destroyed
at some point because it is no longer relevant.
So the destruction is actually
part of the creative process.
A new meaning, a new context, new relationship,
a new story has to emerge destruction.
That's the third aspect of Shiva pure consciousness.
The fourth is concealment or incubation. The creative process always needs
incubation in the field of all possibilities
so that it can harness entanglement
into a new experience.
A new
perception, new idea, new thought, new relationship, new context, new story
that happens
in incubation, incubation also happens in deep sleep.
And also of course, supreme incubation in death.
And then after an uncertain period of
incubation, there's suddenly insight, revelation,
movement, discontinuity, new context, new
meaning, new relationship, new story, the old recycles but also evolves
into the new, these are also referred to. So that's called resurrection,
death, and resurrection.
You can include even metaphors like virgin birth and all that.
They have some metaphorical meaning.
So
all this is happening where in awareness, awareness remains aware,
its experiences change in the creative process
in that period of sustainability.
In that phase of destruction
in incubation,
no experience but awareness of absence of experience and finally resurrection.
The old
has
been discarded and the new is born.
This is happening to
all of creation
from microcosm to macrocosm,
from human body to cosmic body. Or you can say the body of an insect or a caterpillar to
any life form.
And this creative process involves the tatvas.
Tatvas means cosmic consciousness, cosmic mind, cosmic
identity, ego, identity.
You might call it God if you want to but you don't have to.
But then it filters down to the microcosmic level,
mind, intellect, ego, the five sensory organs, the five motor organs,
the five elements symbolic representation of those five
perceptual activities and the five
the subtle senses
all
are actually
modes of awareness,
knowing itself as experience and understanding
and knowing,
experience, understanding and knowing.
Awareness remains aware
in all its
un manifest and manifest
expressions.
Just looking at my notes to see if
I should say anything else.
No,
this is
what the
sutra is saying.
So
see you soon.