It comes out from the previous issue that the primal source - the root of all creations - is beyond all limitations of creativity, knowledge, time, space, and laws of causation. Ordinary mortals, on the contrary, are in the first place, armed with limited creative ability.
Second, the primal source is all-knowing, as it lends intelligence to all levels of creation, and also to all creations at the levels respectively due to each. But all manifest creatures, including human beings, lack all-knowingness. Consequently, one’s scope of vision and thereby awareness level gets narrowed down, offering us a fractioned view of the world process.
Third, for the above reasons, human beings are born with an inherent ‘sense of want’, which excites the urge to make up for the void. Thus, comes into play the sense of craving, desire, lust, possession and such other related tendencies.
Fourth, unlike the creator, we are bound by the limitation of time, in the sense that we measure happenings in the frame of past, present, and future. As we are aware, all live existences have a limited stay in this world, and so their stay could be measured in time frame. Because of this limitation, ordinarily, our attention keeps shifting from past, which is nothing but history; to future, which is uncertain. Consequently, our level of focus on the callings of the present gets compromised. We, thus, fail to remain riveted to the present, which sets the premise of the future. So, because of attention deficiency, we fail to put in our whole. We are thus, often left behind in the run of time, and with obvious consequences.
Fifth, one remains bound by the laws of causation. It keeps all human actions bound to cause and effect chain. In this scheme of things there has to be a cause behind any effect, which in turn, sets the premise for fresh happening. And there is no scope for having a free lunch in this world. So, we have to bear with the consequences, for all our deeds, good or bad, depending on the intent and character of our actions. We, thus, get trapped into an unending chain of cause and effect – Karmic cycle. It is something like the seed of mango will bear mango tree only, and that of neem, a neem tree. But then the primal source is self-caused, inexhaustible and eternal, and therefore is beyond the binds of the laws of causation.
Finally, human beings are bound by the limitation of space. Here it needs to be appreciated that the primal source being a unified energy-field, its constituents can’t be differentiated by any measure of space, and so free from any such limitation. On the contrary, all form-existences including human beings are bound by space. We, therefore, identify ourselves with our gross body, differentiated from all others, and belonging to a particular place. With such an individualised sense of identity, the sense of essential unity underlying all diverse existences takes a back seat. The sense of all-inclusiveness thus getting lost, one gets tempted to differentiate one from the other, and begin to compare each other in relative terms. Consequently, a sense of divide comes into play. It is in this sense that out of many, one meaning ascribed to the word ‘Maya’ is the sense of measure.
It is important to note here that the way a human being perceives, is how s/he would react, respond, or act upon in day-to-day life. And since human minds have limited perceptive and comprehensive abilities, an ordinary mortal is not able to have holistic understanding of the world process. Naturally, with a fractioned vision, one fails to perceive things in right perspective, and with obvious consequences
Owing to the above limitations of mind, the essential unity of the Shakti-trinity, vital to our dynamic existence does not ordinarily remain live in our minds. We rather look at them in apparent terms. So, invariably we remain under the influence of the particular shakti variant that would be prominently displayed. It needs to be appreciated here that there would be no existence, live or inert, but for any of the three. Their mix would, however, vary from person-to-person, with one or the other attribute playing heavy over the other two. That distinguishes a being from the other in terms of one’s thought process, which defines a person’s unique character and thereby one’s usual conduct. Now, according as which particular aspect of the Shakti-trinity is prominently displayed defines individual specific mind-trends, which sets the terms of how one views life.
The issue continues………
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