Vijaya Dashami

   India, i.e.,Bharat celebrates vijaya dashami today, Saturday 30th October, in commemoration of the return of Sri Ramachandra after Ravana was killed and Sita was brought back to Ayodhya. He was installedas the King of Ayodhya after his brother Lakshmana relinquished the throne.  This is the new era for the Rule of Sri Ram which later came to be well known as 'Ram Rajya'. It is said that the State was ruled by the King with righteousness, dharma, in such a way that there was prosperity, no theft, or any social ills! The State prospered under his Kingship and the people worshiped hin as a perfect humna, 'purushothama'. So, it is clear that Sri Ramachandra was the King of Ayodhya. But who is the Who is Ramachandra, whom we worship as the God? 

   The epic Ramayana depicts the story of Sri Ram, son of King Dasharatha ruling the State of Ayodhya on the banks of R. Sarayu. Since King Dasharatha had no issue, he prayed Lord Shiva and was blessed with four children Ram, Lakshman, Bharata, and Shatrughna. Ramachandra is the name given to the first-born as per custom,  the household personal God (mane devaru in Kannada) Sri Rama. There was an idol of Sri Ram whom Dasharatha was worshiping! This idol later on came to the hands of King of Kalinga, and in turn, to Sri Madhwacharya, through his close follower Sri Narahari who was taking care of the King. It is now in Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matha, Mantralayam. Another idol of Sri Vijaya Rama is in the Uttaradi Matha at Bengaluru. So we all worship Sri Ramachandra as the Gods- one, Mula Ramadevaru and Vijaya Rama devaru.

   As regards the real Ramachandra, it is needles to say that Ra stands for the first self effulgent Light, Ravi, Surya (the Sun). The family Deity of King Bharata of the lineage of King Ikshvaku is Rama, the Sun. Here the syllable 'Ma' stands for Sita Mata, symbolically that stands for the Earth. Sita is said to be found in a wooden box in a field, The site is located between Varanasi and Allahabad. Thus Ra and Ma stand for the Sun and the Earth. It is Anjaneya supposed to be the one born of Vata (air) and Anani (Fire), meaning, the Vital airs, Life-force, Prana shakti, Thus, the living beings are supported by life-force, prana,and hence called prana deva!   The entire Ramayana is nothing but the journey of life; the body supported by earth (soil, water and food) and the soul supported by the Star Sun (Light, heat, and energy) connected by the Life-force prana, Anjaneya! Anjaneya is known as vayu jivottama, He is the one who is our deity of prana, prana deva. 

   Now who are Sri Ramachandra, Sita Ma, and Anjaneya or Hanuman? All these are the deities who are established in ourselves and now where else! This principle is enunciated in the Upanishad as "Thou art That" ('tattvamasi'). Sage Aruni Uddalaka asked his son to know this principle. This is also the main theme of Bhavanopanishad, where it is stated that "all that exists is just the bhava (one's desire, will, feeling and understanding of oneself). Whatever the bhava becomes that (bhavat). This is yad bhavam tat bhavati | Everything is created by the mind and destroyed by it.There is nothing outside of oneself!

Devi Puja during Nav-Ratri (Dasara)

It is customary to perform the devi puja, worship of the Shakti Deities, the Devi-  Mahalakshmi and Saraswati (on ashvin saptami), and Durga (ashtami), and  worship of tools and arms (Ayudha puja on Khande navami). The significance of these customary worship of the most powerful deities that create, sustain, and withdraw this visible material objective world cannot be explained unless the symbolism involved in these are clearly understood.    

  In the first place, the common understanding is that devi is a feminine aspect where as deva is a the masculine. But, it is not so! These are the inherent powers within all that is created, stating from the invisible subatomic particles to the gross materials- land and water, air, fire, and space. There are subtler aspects of each and everything we see as the gross ones. Water as a liquid can be found in subtler water vapor, as well as, much gross form of ice blocks. In this sense of the material existence, everything is subtler and subtler-most in the beginning and acquire gross forms later. A human body is also a subtler-most unicellular spermatozoa that multiplies in no time to constitute multi-cellular tissues, organs and body.This holds good for all plants and animals, too. There is a catalytic agent, an emergent factor that operates silently at every single stage of the evolution of these life-forms. An invisible microscopic protozoa or an unicellular amoeba to the giant whales and huge whales and elephants everything is a bundle of vibrant energy, the work of devi devata! These devi are initially Shakti, the power of one invisible supreme power! This one supreme power only manifests in different forms- Mahalakshmi, Saraswati, Durga Parameshwari, etc. in fact, all the nine deities worshiped on the nine days arre: shailaputri, brahmacharini, chandraghanta, kushmanda, skandamata, katyayani, kalaratri, mahagouri, siddhidhatri, This may also be construed that 'One' only is worshiped in different names and forms, as we see how different decorations are made to the same deity oneach day of the nine days of navaratri! These are actually the chit-shakti (Consciousness), ichha shakti (Will power),  jnyan shakti (Knowledge), and kriya shakti (Creative power). There are almost 33 333 Shakti devata and these are given names according to the powers vested in them. For instance, there are 15 devis for 15 days (of phases of moon) of Krishna paksha starting from prathama or padya to amavasya (New Moon) and, another 15 names for the next Shukla paksha, fortnight ending Full Moon (Purnima) according to Lunar calendar. There are 365 names of devata for 365 days of the year according to Solar calendar. Further, there are devis guarding the directions like North, North-east, South, South-east, etc. There are also devis for protecting the living beings from natural elements and other powerful forces!
    What we fail to coordinate these spiritual powers with the physical forces operating as invisible powerful waves such as electromagnetism, sound, magnetism, gravity, etc. The most powerful forms or light, sound, sight, touch, etc. are all there with names of devi devatas. There are thought-forces, images, and imagination, dreams, and several invisible subtler forces and each and every one of these is given a name of devi devata. There is no end to this! 

    As wealready know, every atom of elements like uranium, barium, vanadium, zircon, or hydrogen, oxygen, carbon has inherent energy. The electrons and positrons revolve around the nucleus and release energy when they crash into each other. It is here that we notice the electrons as the -ve and the positrons as the +ve charges of the one single source the nucleus. This is put as the Parabrahmn (neutron), Narayana (positron) and Lakshmi (electron), or Parameshwara, Shiva and Shive. The process of the emergence of power from almost nothing (the brahmn) is portrayed in a geometric form as in Sri Chakra. The center is a point (energy condensed into 'anu'). When it expands in different directions and we jjoin these points by a straight line it forms triangles as shown in the Sri Chakra. The  point (anu / atom) only expands into two (dvyanu) and three (tryanu) and becomes a triangle. It is interesting to note how these lines are like the live wire which release enormous energy when they intersect. The three points of the triangle are actually the power center of desire (sankalpa), will (ichha), and creation (srushti), named after a devi. These are explained in the Sri Chakra.  

   The names of different names are given in 'Sri Vidya' already posted in these blogs.

Samyama

   The spiritual seekers are advised to control their senses, mind, buddhi and ahankar and surrender their ego to Higher Self (param-atman)  and live a disciplined life. This is to observe 'samyama'. Samyama is control over the functions of the body, mind and the indulgences in worldly affairs. The terms 'ya' and 'ma', besides, 'sam', mean total withdrawal and control on. It is the exercise of restraint on what all ('sam') that creates 'ma' (measurable objective world), i.e., 'ya' (that). These worldly objects possess forces of attractions that captivate our senses- the eyes (drushys/roopa), ears (music/sounds), nose (gandha/smell), tongue (ras/taste), and skin (sparsh/touch/feel), that too, of several degrees of intensity- from subtle to gross! These are not only creating an endless desire for experience in us, a thirst, and greed for enjoyment. Not only we experience these objects of desire, but we become so addictive, that we hanker after them time and again. They leave an everlasting impression and become seeds for future births! These impressions (vasanas) become karma kleshas that the spiritual seeker should be aware of! These karma or prarabhda should be spent in order to become free from rebirths. The sadhaka should reduce the burden he/she is already carrying as backlog of fruits of previous actions (prarabhda karma), as also those accumulating fresh ones (sanchita karma). Thus, the path of renunciation is one of reducing the burden by taking recourse to 'sanyas'.
   The Bhagavad-Gita gives a detailed instruction regarding the path of renunciation, vairagya, nirasakti yoga in Ch. 13.Further, 'samyama' is dealt with in Ch. 4 in detail.
 sarvani indriyakarmani capare| Atma samyama yogagnou juhvti inyanadipite|| (4.27)
Meaning, the yogins withdraw, sacrifice, all actions of senses and life-force in the fire of  'Atma- samyama yoga', pranayama.  

The Ascent Towards Supermind

To quote Hilaire from the Book of Sri Aurobindo on "The Future Evolution of Man"(Ch.7)-

The Ascent Towards Supermind

It is difficult to conceive intellectually what the Supermind is; and to describe it, another language would be needed than the poor abstract counters of the mind.

The transition from mind to Supermind is a passage from Nature into Supernature. For that every reason it cannot be achieved by a mere effort of our mind or our unaided aspiration. Overmind and Supermind are involved and hidden in the earth-nature; but, in order that they may emerge in us, there is needed a pressure of the same powers already formulated in their full natural force on their own superconscient planes. The powers of the Superconscience must descend into us and uplift us and transform our being.

What should be the preparation for the supramental transformation? First, an increasing control of the individual over his own nature and a more and more conscious participation in the action of the Supernature. A second condition consists in a conscious obedience, a surrender of our whole being, to the light, the truth and force from above.

A third condition is the unification of the whole being around the true self and the opening of the individual to the cosmic consciousness.

Four steps of ascent lead from the human intelligence to the Supermind; these are:

• 1) Higher Mind.
• 2) Illumined Mind.
• 3) Intuitive Mind.
• 4) Overmind.

Reason, Faith, Religion and Spirituality

    The present day modern development is moving towards a crisis in the evolutionary process. This has taken place earlier, too, but of a different type of crisis each time in the animal kingdom. We know the extinction of many animals in the past. But, the present crisis is one of a different dimension affecting people all over the world. It is one of inner conflicts in man, society and nations leading to mass exodus. It is sad that people die in the course of this struggle for existence. Clash of ideologies and economic interests may not be the real culprits. The die out. But, the threat of religious conflicts, one of emotional outbursts and killings in the heat of passion for one's faith and reasoning has failed. In fact, reasoning always fails for the simple reason. Hilaire says, "When reason applies itself to life and action it becomes partial and passionate and the servant of other forces than the truth."

  Progressive people have now revolted against predominance of religion. It is also true that many accredited religions have opposed progress. there are people who support oppression. Anyways, brutal killing in the name of religion and faith are not admissible since religion is opposed to 'killings' including animals and birds; not even trees are allowed to cut in many religious systems. Religion is considered opposite to progress. But the problem of religion is that it is not a sufficient guide to life, besides, there are innumerable paths and create diversity rather than unity. What is the answer?

   Spirituality is the only answer. However, this, too, is against worldly life and material progress. This is the crisis. The  true religion leads to spiritual development that takes one inward toward the Self. Again, Hilaire says, "In spirituality then, restored to its true sense, we must seek for the directing light and harmonizing law." This leads to a pertinent question- "Whether man has developed a healthy relation with community, society, and even the Government he himself has created?"  The answer is very simple 'no'. He has always been in conflict not only with the outside world, but with himself, his family and society!  It is here the question of spirituality arises. Any spiritually developed person overcomes the inner and outer conflicts and lives amicably, peacefully and happily in society. But spiritual development needs a through exercise in control of the mind, that leads to yoga, renunciation and living in isolation. These seem to be a contradictory path, one leading away against life, society and material progress. But, it is not so. It is the surest path of cleansing ones mind. Spiritual progress cleanses the mind of all pollutants such as selfish interests, pride, ego, superiority complex, jealous and criminal tendency in the heat of defending one's religious faith, etc. It gives persons to contemplate on higher goals of life, develops divine qualities and kill all animal propensities that are harmful to the welfare of fellow living beings.
   "The present evolutionary crisis comes from a disparity between the limited faculties of man - mental, ethical, and spiritual - and the technical and economical  means at his disposal.  Without an inner change man ca no longer cope with the gigantic development of the outer life.  The exaltation of the collectivity, of the state, only substitutes the collective ego for the individual ego. If humanity is to survive, a radical transformation of human nature is indispensable." (ibid,)  

   Thus, the future of mankind lies in spiritual development that involves total withdrawal from all external materialistic adventure for some time, or balance the external and the internal forces- one calling for the upliftment of man and another, a materialistic life of comfort and sensuous life. This is not a big problem that calls for running away from life! It is judicious way of living. This can be done by meditation at least a few minutes regularly every day, and contemplation on larger interests of community, welfare of society, understanding of the true purpose of life, and work for a peaceful and progressive society- one of equity and justice, dharma. This will erase corrupt practices in public life.    All the present-day problems of our society are due to exploitation of the poor and the gullible for want of human values and proper education. People are living like barbarians and this has to stop.

Mind, Super Mind and the Supramental

Sri Aurobindo has gone into the depth of evolutionary process and goes on to discuss the "Future Evolution of Man" and, a brief account of this is given by P. B. Saint Hilaire. The concepts of 'super mind' and the 'supra-mental' are difficult for us, common people,to understand. However,it is essential to know the concept of Mind that created man in the first place elevating from the stages of plants (as source of food, annam, and Aushadha, medicine). This evolution from the stage of simple uni-cellular to multi-cellular organisms- through living organisms in water (aquarian), both on land and water like turtles (amphibian), and crawling ones (land animals) like the reptilian and the arboreal ave (birds) upto the stage of primates and man. All these gross entities are the end result of a long long evolutionary process lasting billions of years! Man has evolved just recently and is yet to evolve from the state of animal-like existence (with preponderating propensities and dominant qualities of all sorts of insects and animals!). Even today, man behaves as  a cruel animal killing each other! Man is yet to develop the human qualities, let alone the divine qualities. It is here the future evolution of man becomes important. The language and style of presentation of Sri Aurobindo is extremely terse and not easy for even scholars to understand his mind and thought process. Many of his writings are not complete! It is difficult to fill in the gaps!

   Now What the great Saint Sri Aurobindo says is that the same human being can attain to higher and higher levels of consciousness! His "Synthesis of Yoga" describes this. One can take recourse to yogabhyasa, practice of intense yoga sadhana and drop all the lower levels of body, sensual, mental levels and reach higher spiritual consciousness and experience the ultimate reality, the truth, the divine soul within!   

Papa, Punya, and Attainments

   In fact, there is nothing to be achieved here on this earth, a planet which is dark, ignorant, a death-knell where anything and everything that appears will ultimately disappear! The jivas are the worst sort that are made to suffer from hunger, thirst, ageing, sickness, and death. Thus, there is nothing that gives us joy, happiness, or enjoyable, joyful, and blissful. But, then, one may ask what is the purpose of living? The purpose of life is to live. However, it is not easy to live as one likes and there is a higher spirit that governs the birth, life, and death here. Hence the jiva has to realize the 'higher power' that governs the jiva. Every jiva has a destiny, a destination to reach! The very meaning of 'life' is a journey through space in the space-ship earth. It is a divine order. Every planet, satellite, star and galaxy obey the order. They keep in their tract and move endlessly as along as He, the Lord, desires! 

   Now, the essence of the teachings of Bhagavan Shree Krishna is only about this creation and ultimate purpose. This upadesha in gita is given to vivasvan, the sun-god. He advises the Surya just to do the assigned work of shining giving light, life-force, energy, intelligence, food and support all that is created! Accordingly, the sun-god is doing his duty. Now the work assigned to soma, the moon is also clear. The moon has to reflect the light of the sun and support life.The earth gets the essence of the sun in moonlight and all vegetation become food to living beings. The Earth is assigned the work of creation, sustenance and dissolution and things work accordingly here. Now, what is the job assigned to manava, the thinking-man?

   The human beings are endowed with a powerful tool, the brain (a physical entity made of cells) that can convert the signals received from the space, the mind as akasha. All that we think, desire or aspire, work for come from the signals received from the akasha. Now, what is it we, as human beings, doing here? It is just obeying His orders. We perform actions according to the desire of the Lord. There is nothing we can do, or ever do, without his injunctions, initiations, or prerana, One may do anything that one wants here and such a freedom is given to all. There is no binding whatsoever. Every jiva is independent since the ever-Independent Lord only is seated as the 'Self' of all and breathes, thinks, and works! He alone exists and nothing besides Him! 

   There is a misunderstanding among the ignorant jivas that the Lord will be angry if we do not do this and that or do anything! There is nothing that one can do without His prerana and, as such, nothing (papa or punya, good or bad) binds us! The only rider is that whatever one does, the person committing or omitting a certain action will have to pay for it. This is 'karmaphala' (enjoying or suffering). There is also a condition that one has to return to earth in some form or the other to suffer or enjoy for any deed, action, performed! So Bhagavan Shree Krishna advises "not to desire and act". Since it is not possible to keep quiet, the jiva is prone to some action and thus, suffers! The Lord says, "The one who does not desire is dear to Me". Even if one desires and does anything, the results will not bind if it is surrendered to Him. Surrender to the divine will and be free!  Where is the problem?

   Utmost, what a person enjoys or suffers is due to the embodiment. Once the jiva realizes the fact that all that is suffix, affix, or attachment to the soul such as body, senses, mind, buddhi, ahankara, chitta are not the self, but merely the accessories, the job is done. Nothing afflicts the jiva since it is already, inherently, pure, happy, joyful and blissful. Just stay in that mode of a realized Self, jitatmanah, santushtah.  

How to overcome the Impediments?

    There are many impediments that impede progress of the jiva towards fulfillment. These are very subtle forces and it is very difficult to overcome them. The very first impediment is 'desire' and the next more powerful one is 'fear'. Both these are strong forts that imprison us in worldly pursuits and keep them in bondage forever. This is the reason that prompted Sri Madhwacharya to declare- "there is no chance of the soul, 'jivatman',  ever becoming free and merging in super-soul, 'paramatman'. Both the embodied and blemished soul and the pure consciousness ever remain separate. However, Shankaracharya differed on this view-point. The principle of 'advait' advocated by Sri Shankaracharya presumes the power of yoga in releasing the jiva from this bondage. The desire and fear that governs the jiva and its eternal bondage due to 'maya' can be overcome by yoga sadhana. svadhyaya, satsang, and nidhidhyasana will bring wisdom (viveka) and renunciation (vairagya) This helps the jiva to overcome desire that acts as the seed for rebirths. 'Nirasakti yoga' described by Bhagavan Shree Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita will help the jiva to overcome the worldly attractions. The senses are withdrawn from worldly objects and the mind is silenced in transcendental meditation. This takes the jiva to higher and higher levels of pure consciousness. Thus, there is a chance of the earthlings reaching to higher and higher levels and may finally reach the ultimate brahman!

    Besides desire and fear, there are many other impediments to yoga sadhana. There are the rajas, tamas, and the sattva gunas that need be overcome, followed by the ari-shadvarga (krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya, irshya,etc. All these are blemishes that have to be cleansed by constant chants of Sri Hari's name, There are also injunctions, the 'dos' and 'don'ts', that are to be strictly followed. The scriptures lay down several rules such as living celibate in isolation, strict diet, and study of scriptures so as to turn inward towards 'self-realization'. All these are very difficult propositions and ordinary people are not interested in these!

   Thus, the question of attainment to 'brahman' or 'self-realization' remains an eternal problem. 

Names and Forms Constitute the World

  The materialistic, objective, phenomenal, transient world that comes within the grip of time,space, and cause and effect is nothing but some sort of names and forms only, and noting else! Anything that we think of and spell out in words or sentences fits into the eight parts of speech (in English). All these objects are put into words of mouth, as an expression- names and forms of objects! There is nothing that we can do about things 'that take a certain form' in course of time and go on changing along with time (including the man as a child!) and we identify them by some name and recognize in some form. The noun and pronoun stand for almost all names of persons, place, animal, or things. One may attribute certain qualities to these, too, as good, bad, ugly or beautiful, etc. Thus, everything is some name quality that includes form or shape.
   The worst part of the story of evolution is that nothing is permanent, although every thing persists in one form or the other in time and space! The tragic part of the story is that a child is given a name after birth only to be removed the moment that child is dead! It happens to evry person who dies; the moment one is dead, the name goes and, people call it just a 'body'! Where has the name gone? At best everybody is recognized as so and so only to forget, sooner or later. This is the way of the objective phenomenal world!
   Now, as to the objects of desire, less said the better! In fact, nothing exists until the desire creates it. If there is no desire, there is no place for anything. Desire creates the world. A person will not look at food unless he/she is hungry; so also, nobody wants anything unless he/she desires it. Hence, all that exists are objects of desire, created by desire, and end with the death of desire. Now, as to the desire, ambition, aspirations and dreams of a person, it is certainly an illusion. One gets all that he desires but loses in it soon after getting it. All objects ultimately lose their attraction, glamour, sheen or shining the moment the interest of the person in these are lost. A person may aspire for power, position, money, honor, status in society, etc. But, all these lose meaning the moment one sees the futility of acquiring these. It is the very possession that removes the shine! Ultimately, all get disillusioned at the end, no matter what position one held in society. Great Masters have died totally disappointed and disillusioned. People who ruled with a firm hand have died losing their hands (due to paralysis?). There is nothing that is totally satisfying in this world. All that comes from external sources come with limitations of time, kaala. There is death awaiting everybody who is born here since this earth is a death-knell, mrutyu lok. There is nothing that can give satisfaction here since everything is eaten away by time.
     Hence, Bhagavan Shree Krishna advises all of us through Arjuna that, "The world is created as an illusion, "maya, by His magic wand! Even the Veda are attractive words only and, will not bring happiness." Further, the Lord advises all of us to withdraw the senses from external objects, sit quiet and take to yoga, silence the fickle mind and see that you enjoy supreme bliss" This happiness is within us all, not somewhere else. It is foolish to search outside for something that is already within us.This is the most beautiful lesson the Lord teaches us. There is no other go but to sit quiet and contemplate on brahmn.    
   This does not mean that one should not aspire for anything or work for in life. This is not a negative outlook. It is real jnyan, true knowledge, para vidya. Having born, one has to live and, it is better to live with a proper perspective of life. A jnyani is not perturbed by disappointments, failures, poverty, and miseries of life and takes them in right spirits. The attained persons, yogis, are not even bothered about their body and concentrate on brahmn, the realization of life. Ultimate happiness lie in knowing one's true nature! The moment one realizes the true nature of this objective phenomenal world, the nature of the jiva and the secret behind all these creation, one become happy and joyful. Such an attained person loves the world better than others who are interested in their own greed, selfish worldly attainments. One has to tread this journey of life carefully!

The World is Noise

The pancharatra samhita are explicitly clear about the way the universe has come into its present state of existence from a state of absolute silence. There are no well laid rules and regulations or theories and  postulations about creation in the beginning, all these come later and they are still coming! There are the scientific, rather scientists' views and the spiritual, rather, the spiritualists views gained by yoga as an intuition coupled with visioning! the latter being more reliable! Being a visionary, a yogi can as well personally  visualize things in a transcendental meditative mode. Once realized, there is no need for any reference or questioning!

   Let's take the example of a spiritualist's view of "I am That" (aham brahmasmi). Here the realized person has visualized the process of creation in yogic trance and knows his 'existential reality'. He thinks and knows that all that exists is his own creation! The jiva struggles for existence and suffers due to ignorance! The ignorance is avidya, nescience. Here the knowledge is the inherent true nature of the jiva but it is covered by desire, attachment, fear, anger and many qualities inherited from nature, mula prakruti, as gunas (rajas, tamas, and sattva). A persons behavior is the product of these acquired qualities, not the inherent true nature. The true nature is always sat, chit and ananda. No external factors will ever modify it.  The moment a jiva, person, realizes in yogic trance his true nature, the jiva comes to know that all that is seen, heard, felt, etc are the products of the limited capacity of the senses, mind, intellect, and ego. But, in yogic trance these limitations are erased and the jiva becomes totally liberated from limitations and realizes the 'truth; (brahman). 

   Now, the difference between a scientist and a yogi is that the latter uses his limited senses to know the unlimited! The limitations imposed on the jiva are the veiling powers of maya, i.e., kaala (time), desha (space' earthly existence), and the causality (cause and effect) creating illusion! Here, 'illusion' is not just mental, but really physical! A material object is real for a mind deluded with attachment and desire. In the eagerness to experience the object, the jiva tries to get it (the desired objects) and experience with the help of senses and mind, buddhi and ego. The jiva forgets the limitations, 'niyati', that governs the nature of material objects. The jiva will not realize the 'temporal' nature of objects! No material object is ever permanent since it loses its energy and starts deteriorating the moment it is formed! The material objects are created from subtler forces and become gross and again revert to the original state as water and ice becoming water vapor and fire dissipated into vast space (aksaha).

     We never realize the fact that all material objects are the creation of our own limited intelligence, ego and mind. The senses cannot reach the base where the subtler forces create them like hydrogen and oxygen creating water!There are innumerable components that go to make the material objects. However, these are of no interest to a jiva unless it is interested in these and evinces any interest to experience them. "No desire, no world", is the rule. Everything disappears like water vapor! Things created and occupying space assolid, liquid or gas becomes almost nothing, mere vibration of waves! The jiva that realizes the 'futility of the worldly existence' reverts to its true nature and exclaims- aham brahmasmi!

    Thus the world is nothing but noise created by sound vibration. It is 'kalalala', a sort of division and multiplication of cells, from the very first second or minute of its inception, conception, as in the case of birth of a child in the mother's womb!  When the child is a component of all that is a cell- amino acids, enzymes, vitamins, genes, chromosomes- all covered by jelly protein cover, DNA and RNA chain in constant communication and conversation transforming one into another like cells into tissues, organs, body that finally gets discarded! This is the secret of creation. If a person still believes that the visible material world is real, he/she will be sooner or later disappointed while trying to hold on to things  that cannot be held for long! This is avidya.

   The world ends when the noise subsides and peace is established! Rather, the world that was believed to exist outside as 'noise', vibration of energy, sound and forms suddenly become calm and quiet and is visualized as the one that is within as peaceful existence! This is the true state of all that exists!