But now we come to a more important part even the Bhagavad Gita
continues:
But beyond even the mysterious, unmanifested state into which all beings
dissolve at cosmic nightfall
there is another unmanifested reality.
It is Brahman, the Godhead,
the thing in itself, that is beyond time
that does not perish even when existence itself dissolves.
It is this eternal absolute thing in itself that is the ultimate goal.
I am that Arjuna - I am is Krishna talking
which is the personification
off the divine -
I am that Arjuna - Arjuna is the person
Krishna is talking to in this dialogue that is the Bhagavad-gita.
All those who come to this ultimate home come to me
- that's the Ultimate Reality
speaking, God,
never again to be separate, never again to return.
So beyond
the world of
manifestation that we
perceive and experience as the universe
there is
the unmanifested
one life
out of which of course the entire universe arose.
But this unmanifested one life did not dissapear when
the universe came into existence it continues.
It is, I would say,
it is present
within each life form, within you, within me,
as
God.
There is
something in you
that is
one with the source of all life. The core of who you are is
the unmanifested One that was
already there
when the universe came in to existence and
remains
at the core (of) each lifeform untouched by time.
And human existence and what the true awakening is, is the universe becoming
aware off itself as that
unmanifested.
And that is
spiritual awakening. So as you, the human being,
awakens spiritually
you realize
that you are not the form that you
took yourself to be, that you took to be your absolute
reality, the body,
the psychological form,
the mind,
but you realize, you sense
something within you - it's not something
but we have to use language -
there is something within you that has nothing to do with the physical body
or the thoughts that goes through your mind.
There is a spaciousness there
in between two thoughts for example now.
You don't disappear when you don't thinking.
When one thought comes to an end
and the other one hasn't come yet
there is just a little space there.
In that space there is nothing
and yet that
space in which there is nothing
there is a very subtle
presence. But it has no form
it's consciousness itself.
And that's the -
if it's not the unmanifested one could say it is the emanation of the
unmanifested, to use almost poetic language.
So you can sense something within you, an aliveness,
that has nothing to do with you as a person
but without which the person could not be.