In fact, everything has emanated from this source- MIND, i.e., pure Consciousness. This pure Consciousnesss is the Chit-Shakti, the Divine Mother. The source of all that exists is this 'chit'- the Energy, power, Shakti, that also holds within itself the knowledge of creation, sustenance, dissolution. It is the 'Adhya Shakti'  Whatever creates, ‘brings forth’ is said to be the ‘Mother’. The 'chit' only manifests in multifarious forms as- chiti, chaitya, chetasa, chaitanya, chitta, and the diverse phenomenal objective world!

 ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is the proverb, a statement formally used for expressing ‘cause’ of creation or discovery of new things. Here, the word ‘mother’ stands for the ‘causeless cause’. Thus, the term ‘Mother’ stands for the subtlest unmanifest- ‘nothing’, ‘shunya’, absolute abstract’, that is ‘silent but dynamic’. It creates everything but, is nothing by itself! Hence, the term ‘Mother’, may be used to all that creates; the term ‘It’ or ‘tat’ is also used to denote the ‘Divine Will’ that is the source of all creation, this universe. All dualities start here. All names and forms start here. Time and Space also begin here. Both the cause and effect have their beginning here. It is the starting as well as the end point of our journey. It is like the point on a circle. It is the creative power of Lord Shiva- our mind, citta, or ‘cit’ (pure Consciousness). “I only exist” is the fundamental principle here. That is the reason why everybody says, ‘I’ day and night. ‘I’ is aham, / so’ham (I am), Shivo’ham, Aham Shivam asmi|

    Here Shiva is ‘cit’ or pure Consciousness, “just consciously aware of Himself” as ‘Him’ ‘Self’, or ‘I’ (inner eye) and its centre (His ‘Self’); and, this ‘awareness of the Self’ or ‘Consciousness of one’s Self’ has manifested as the supreme creative power, Shakti (of Shiva).

  This same sequence of ‘development of awareness of one’s self’ can be experienced in everybody’s everyday life! For instance, when one gets up after a long night deep sleep, one may not be aware of his state and that is the ‘Brahman state’, a state of nothingness. When one becomes aware of where one is and looks at one’s self, that person becomes aware of his self as ‘I’- the body. When one looks outside or comes out of the bed he becomes aware of the ‘other’; the world begins here or the day starts for him; if one continues to stay in any of these states of ‘lack of awareness’, there is no world at all, no existence for all practical purposes for him at all!

  Everything depends on consciousness; it is consciously being aware of one’s own self or being aware of the other. This, too, depends on cognition, memory, awareness provided the mind is functioning with the brain in a coordinated focused attention. The phenomenal objective world ends the moment the focus is shifted. It is unfortunate that man as two eyes that have to be focused in order to capture the images. One eye would have done wonders. But, divine will was otherwise.

  The moment a person loses his consciousness the world disappears instantly; so also, there is no world in sushupti (deep sleep), or in Samadhi (turiya). What is it we are talking of- as the world, ‘the other’, or samsara, when everything is transient, changing, disappearing at the slightest shift of focus, attention, or mere closing of eyes? This is Maya!

    Now, coming to the phenomenal objective world- the world of names and forms that comes out of Space, ether, nothing visible (may be appearing and disappearing out of Self, from deep sleep or sushupti or Samadhi as stated above), what to say and what not to say? It is all an imagination- a fantas(y)tic world of images (imagination), thoughts and ideas (ideation) in the working Mind (mentation). Nothing really exists in reality and everything here created by the trick of the Mind. Whatever is created here is bound by limitations of space, time, causality; everything is transient, changing, transforming, except the one- the pure Consciousness, Shiva (‘cit’). Shiva only exists and nothing else exists.