Picking up threads from the previous issue, it’s time to look at few other dimensions of the Shakti -trinity. Inherent in Sata is the ‘revealing principle’. We have already discussed that when Tamasa engages with the seeds of creation stirred up by Rajas element, it leads to creation. The creation, however gains stability and thereby form existence with name when aided by Sata element. Once the form existence is in place, the eternal element of Consciousness finds a platform to manifest. The radiance inherent in Consciousness Element brings into light (in cognitive domain), the form-existence designated with a name and form. Tamasa, its counterpart, is marked with ‘veiling nature’, as it does all the processing in hiding. It is something like a plant bearing seed, which has to necessarily go into hiding in the dark realms of mother earth’s womb for a specified period, for it to draw succour from the earth mass. Following which, the seed first sprouts, and then grows into a fruit bearing tree. Evidently, the tree-form remains veiled in the seed; but once manifest, the particular seed creating it would not be in sight. Similarly, at the primal-source, which is supposedly self-revealed, the fine print of manifest world remains veiled in seed-form. But once the world becomes manifest, the root on which life cycle is premised gets veiled, as it goes out of reckoning in human being’s perceptible domain. It is for this very reason that in Indian context, darkness is not perceived as negative. For, it remains just one phase of nature’s creation process. So, veiling and unveiling aspects are just two faces of nature’s creation cycle.
But then a look at the way seed-tree-seed cycle runs, an intriguing question arises in mind, especially in view of the fact that seed goes out of sight once it transforms into a plant. Would it mean that the primal source would also lose its presence once the manifest world comes to light? Looking at the seed-tree cycle analogy, it may appear so. But then, it needs to be appreciated that the manifest ephemeral world has to be rooted somewhere in some inexhaustible eternal reality. Otherwise, it will not be able to draw succour necessary to continue recycling again and again. But for which, the manifest world would not have sustained so long. Here, it also needs to be appreciated that the Primal-Source is infinite, inexhaustible and an outflowing eternal reality, beyond the bounds of time, space, and causality. It is only a finite thing that may lose its presence, once transformed into another form.
A look at the emergence and disappearance of tidal waves in the sea may throw further light. When the sea is in fury, tidal waves envelope the sea. The sea goes out of our sight. Once the tidal waves settle down after doing their round for a while, it comes out that only the surface water had temporarily gone into fury. The main sea body was there in its place. Even in tidal wave state, it remains a part of the main sea body itself. So, whereas existence of the tidal wave can be measured in time frame, the main sea body remains beyond its limit. Similarly, the disorder just at the surface level of the primal source is enough to manifest the world we live in. But the primal source would remain very much in place, and therefore, is beyond the limitation of time. Again, when the manifest world finally disintegrates, it gets back to its primal source, the way main sea body takes back the tidal waves into its womb. So, the primal source happens to be an eternal reality beyond the binds of time.
The revealing, veiling, and activating aspects of Sata, Tamasa, and Rajasa have psychological imperatives on human minds as well, in so far as their individual character is concerned. As already discussed above, with body-mind organism getting revealed, the root of life gets veiled. That clouds human perceptible and comprehensible abilities in five different ways. Since these limitations arise as a sequel to the design parameters underlying the making of a being, they are there by birth.
We may call them as elemental limitations. Kashmir Shaivism calls this as being under the spell of Maya(delusion).
The human limitations are viewed in the backdrop of the primal source believed to be enjoying singular ownership of the whole manifest world and thereby carrying a sense of fullness; being omniscient; being beyond limitation of time and space as wells as laws of causation.
The issue continues………
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