'Attainment'-Transcending the Boundaries.

  As we are all children, we would love to play. We first lay down the rules of the game. We mark the boundaries and then cry foul. We mark the boundary of the cricket field only to shout a 'four' when the ball rolls out of it, or shout a 'Six' when the ball flies high and crosses beyond! We mark the foot ball or tennis field and cry 'out'. It is we who have created the boundary lines where there was none. Those who are fed up with this play, eraze all lines of boundaries and go home!

   'One' vast unlimited deep expanse of Space (akasha) is filled with material objects like the stars, galaxies, the sun and its planets,including the varied life forms. This is in totality. This 'One' is identified as each one, separate, and this and that by the intelligence. Where there is 'none' comes the 'one' and the one only appears as one more, one more and the 'many'.  In all reality, it is one only. It is like the bachelor who becomes one more with a wife and one more and  one more like the children; all are one, one family, progeny! The human mind is ingenious in identifying, imagining, and creating things which do not exist! All that exist here is transitory and 'do not really exist' as the eternal!

  So also, the ingenious mind marks the boundary where there is none. It can create, divide, dissect, disseminate and do all sorts of tricks. These thresholds, the boundaries, rules and regulations, etc are all creation of the mischievous mind. We write down a Constitution and becomes out-dated, obsolete, and we cry foul when we do not follow it! So also, we create dos' and don'ts and castigate those who do not follow them. This problem prompted the great social thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseu to proclaim that "we are born free and we are in chains everywhere". 

   This boundary, the threshold, the limitations are thus either self-imposed, or may be, even divine. For instance, we have the sapta lokas- bhu,bhuvah, svah, mahah, janah, tapah and the sat. So also, we have seven levels of Consciousness from muladhara at the base (basal plexus) to sahasrar over the head running through svadhishthana, manipura, anahata, vishuddhi, and the ajnya; so also, there are seven levels below the waist/seat- atala, vitala, sutala. . . patala. One who is an adept yogi can transcend these levels in yogic trance (samadhi) and reach the highest. When one reaches the highest level of consciousness, that is pure and clear (without any blemishes like mada, matsarya, krodha, etc.) he, the yogi, realizes the 'oneness'. This is attainment in the real sense.