This Mysterious Creature called 'Man'

     Man is a thinking animal. The humans are endowed with power of thinking. This led Rene Des Cartes to say, Cogito ergo sum. This statement- "I think, so I am" may be changed a little to- "I am, so I think". So aham asmi or "I am" ('so'ham') is the Vedic doctrine. This may be fully stated as- "I Am That" The scientists have now come out with a new statement after a thorough research that 'the ultimate reality' is the 'Universe reflected in Man' that prompted them to state- "I Am the Universe".

    However, the mystery of creation is beyond all human capacity to think. The human beings can never decipher the secret of creation as long as they think that they are limited, incapable of knowing all the truth! However, this is not the case. Every human being is bestowed with creative power, intelligence, and ability to think and raise above the mundane level of existence. This is possible by taking recourse to yoga. What the yogic practices do is to help us to discard all the trash we have acquired since birth and restore us to our pristine pure Conscious state. 'Pure Consciousness' is the state of 'all-knowing', 'sarvajnyatvam. Thus, it is not very difficult to know the secrets of creation. The Bhagavad-Gita will greatly facilitate this understanding.

   Now, what is this mystery called /Man'? The mystery lies in the fact that 'nothing' appears like 'something' (illusion?) that makes him to search, reach there. This search is endless since the 'subject' searching, and the 'object of search' are one and the same. 

   The Lord says, "I only exist! Nothing besides Me. I only manifest as 'the Self' of all". Who else is there when a person is in a state of deep meditation, or for that matter, when one is in deep sleep?

   The mystery lies in getting this 'non-existential state in existence' and 'existence in a non-existential state' (samadhi). Thus, yoga helps to crack this mystery and realize 'Who I am'. When one realizes the fact that the human being is nothing but a bundle of energy(chemical bonds) in the form of a vibrant state in 'flesh and blood' supported by 'prana'; so also, the problem ends when the jiva realizes that it is nothing but 'vibration of energy'. The jiva ceases to exist the moment vibration stops. 'Everything is vibrant vital (pranic) energy' that takes some form under a certain frequency, wave-length, and then discards it! Thus, all great thinkers have arrived at a certain understanding that 'everything found here is just a 'make-believe' world, and nothing is certain here. This is the transient world we live in for a short span of life and disappear!