There’s less to learn from the world than there is to learn from the self. The truth is, for you, there IS no world beyond the landscape of your current living experience.
Think about it. The space and the cosmos, the stars and galaxies, the light and the sound, all of it is fabricated as an experience within the meat machine we call as myself (or humans).
The sunlight and the grass, you know them by color, form, sensation, and shape. They’re all fabricated within the mind as unique dimensions called the 5 senses.
Limitations of the 5 Senses
The understanding of evolution was well-established in the Vedas. Dated well before Darwin’s theory of evolution, we understood that the experience of life in every living creature (the Brahman) is designed, or engineered by nature.
The creation and the creator aren’t two separate entities. So, the Brahman, the ultimate consciousness, or the infinite intelligence, is the environment and also the living entity.
Through nature, living entities emerged and evolved, because, the ultimate consciousness, by it’s very nature, is proliferating in all aspects. The consciousness continues to expand in all dimensions like water seeping into every crevice and corner of a formless, infinite vessel.
The same phenomenon can be seen in nature as evolution. The nature trains the meat machine to survive and proliferate, so every successive meat machine becomes more aware, more intelligent, and more enabled.
But there’s a big flaw in this design. The nature prepares the meat machine’s apparatus to survive the nature, not to see the truth. Your senses aren’t designed to show you how things truly are. They’re designed to help you survive or use what you see.
If you pick a rock, you can tell how much it weighs, what shape and color it is, what’s its texture, and a 1000 things you can do with it. But you still do not know what that rock actually IS.
Transcending the Limitations of the Physical
To see the universe in its true form. One must withdraw their awareness from the apparatus of the nature (the 5 senses), just like how a tortoise tucks all of its limbs inside the shell. Once the awareness is withdrawn from all the senses, the body and the mind, the state achieved is called Shoonya (void). The experience in this state is not fabricated by nature.
This is when the Brahman realizes that it is beyond the physical and the scaffolding of the space-inertia-energy is consciousness itself. The same consciousness that manifests within the meat machine he/she used to call myself.
This state can be achieve through the practice of Yoga, Pranayama, and Dhyana. To muster up energy within the body, one must practice pratyahara, which is where the practitioner withdraws their senses from stimulation, and the outside world, especially touch.
A Yogi may avoid speaking and even looking at people during this time. They may close their eyes and withdraw all of their senses from the world.
Yogis are also incredibly strict toward being touched by people when they are storing up prana-vayu (energy) for a consecration process (Devi prana-pratishtha) or other ambitious activities.
In general, a yoga practitioner may avoid touch contact with people for two reasons:
#1 They are practicing Brahmacharya
This is for when the practitioner hasn’t awakened their kundalini, and the prana-vayu in their body is naturally flowing downward through Ida and Pingala naadi but their shushumna naadi (spine) is still not active.
People on this stage are aware that even touching another person invokes Kama (lust) within their system, in a subtle seed form, which dissipates their energy greatly. It’s not that they’ve become prone to this phenomenon because they are following brahmacharya. It happens with everyone.
It’s just that a common person is so stimulated and agitated that they are unable to notice subtle phenomena of their bodies. These people live an accidental life. Moving where their body takes them, like NPCs. In the Veda Sanskriti, such people aren’t even considered Maanava (human being) because they live an animalic life. Their living experience is just as profound as that of a monkey.
काम क्रोध मद मोह लोभ नाथ नरक के पंथ।
सब परिहरि रघुबीरहि भजहु भजहिं जेहि संत॥
#2 They are storing up energy for something
For those who have awakened their kundalini and now their life-energy (Ki) is actively flowing through the shushumna naadi (spine) from the bottom to top.
When the Dhaara of the person’s body has turned upward and become Raadha, the person’s spine and awareness becomes extremely sensitive to energy.
When someone touches them, it disturbs their flow. The one who touches this yogi may get a tinge of ecstacy or joy because they’re robbing the yogi off of their pure energy, and along with it, the upward force that collides with their brahma chakra. This transaction is always mutual. But the upward movement is satoguni (emotionally empowering). The downward movement is tamoguni (emotionally tolling) in nature.
It’s such a pain to explain to people why you don’t like touching or getting touched on the body. It’s okay-ish if the contact is just palm based. The truth is, the closer you get to my spine, the greater toll it takes on my life-energy! You are exhausting my reserves! DO NOT. I have dreams and ambitions too.
Take-away
The Jeev-atma enters the human body in the following chronology. It starts from anandamaya-kosha, then vigyanamaya-kosha, and then manomaya-kosha. Through manomaya-kosha, the jeev-atma projects itself through the sense-consciousness.
Today, 99% of humanity (I’m being generous with the percentage here), is in the sense-consciousness and manomaya-kosha. This means, they are purely driven by the urges that nature built into them.
The human body is capable of experiencing life on a far deeper level than merely drifting through existence like any other creature—living, eating, reproducing, and dying. Unlike the rest, human beings are the exception. Once a Jeev-atma is compelled to take human body as a vessel, it is ready to take the controller in its hand. Lower life doesn’t have this privilege.
Yatha Pinde, Tatha Brahmande
Tatha Pinde, Yatha Brahmande
~ yajurveda
If I am the body, then everything I experience outside of myself is the universe.
If this experience of life is me, then this body is the universe.
Both of these statements are true. In simple terms, this means all human experiences are created from within and for within.
You don’t open your eyes every morning to see the world, but to explore yourself. When you consume the opinions of others, their beliefs and experiences, it only shapes the landscape of your mind, not the outside world.
You’re a nomad walking within yourself everyday, discovering new land, taking refuge, playing with yourself, eating yourself, breathing yourself, hunting yourself, being hunted by yourself, loving yourself, and hating yourself.
There’s a truth, and there are opinions. If something agitates your mind, it’s an opinion. The truth is quality-less. The moment you pick its qualities, it’s no longer the truth. You can dissect a flower, learn a lot about it, but once you’ve dissected it, you’ve lost it. The flower, and the truth is not in your hands and will never be again.
The end.
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