One of the definitions of enlightenment is "Small mind merging into the universal mind". When you feel one with the whole existence.
The classic example of waves in the ocean is the closest way to explain the relation of a living being and this universe. However, today while looking at my glass of water, a thought crossed my mind and I thought of penning it down.
Let's say the whole universe is a glass of water. Now a part of this water is frozen and the resulted cube of ice is a Jeev. This Jeev identifies himself to be separate from water. He lives his life, gets enlightened that it was part of the water, and thus dissolves back.
After the dissolution, the Jeev does not remain. It is only water. Can the next ice cube form be the same as the previous one? Let's call this new ice cube as Prani. Are Prani and Jeev the same soul or different? As Jeev got enlightened, would Prani also get enlightened that quickly? Or can this process be reversing of Jeev's enlightenment? Could it be possible after Rama and before Krishna, the same soul came in this world just as any other non-enlightened being?
For non-enlighten beings, this dissolution may not be complete. We may just touch the source and come back. Or maybe we just try to see this source while remaining in our own identities. Even a tiny bit of this dissolution is capable of reconfiguring the wiring of Jeev or Prani. This is what happens in our deep meditation. Something changes. The person before and after the meditation is not the same. Even though the subtle changes are not reflected immediately, a meditator can easily see a change in him or her over the period of time.
The water knows all the ice cubes formed from its water. Though the ice cubes would never know the water until it dissolves completely in it. But after dissolution, the ice cube does not remain. Does that mean ice cube can never know other ice cubes completely? Or maybe a super ice cube can dissolve into the water, download the information and then come back in the same ice cube form. This ice cube could be our body and the thing which dissolves could be our mind. The quantum physics says matter actually does not exist. The world just appears to be. So, the real us is just our mind. This mind is nothing but energy, like a small wave of energy in the infinite pool of energy.
The classic example of waves in the ocean is the closest way to explain the relation of a living being and this universe. However, today while looking at my glass of water, a thought crossed my mind and I thought of penning it down.
Let's say the whole universe is a glass of water. Now a part of this water is frozen and the resulted cube of ice is a Jeev. This Jeev identifies himself to be separate from water. He lives his life, gets enlightened that it was part of the water, and thus dissolves back.
After the dissolution, the Jeev does not remain. It is only water. Can the next ice cube form be the same as the previous one? Let's call this new ice cube as Prani. Are Prani and Jeev the same soul or different? As Jeev got enlightened, would Prani also get enlightened that quickly? Or can this process be reversing of Jeev's enlightenment? Could it be possible after Rama and before Krishna, the same soul came in this world just as any other non-enlightened being?
For non-enlighten beings, this dissolution may not be complete. We may just touch the source and come back. Or maybe we just try to see this source while remaining in our own identities. Even a tiny bit of this dissolution is capable of reconfiguring the wiring of Jeev or Prani. This is what happens in our deep meditation. Something changes. The person before and after the meditation is not the same. Even though the subtle changes are not reflected immediately, a meditator can easily see a change in him or her over the period of time.
The water knows all the ice cubes formed from its water. Though the ice cubes would never know the water until it dissolves completely in it. But after dissolution, the ice cube does not remain. Does that mean ice cube can never know other ice cubes completely? Or maybe a super ice cube can dissolve into the water, download the information and then come back in the same ice cube form. This ice cube could be our body and the thing which dissolves could be our mind. The quantum physics says matter actually does not exist. The world just appears to be. So, the real us is just our mind. This mind is nothing but energy, like a small wave of energy in the infinite pool of energy.
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