How Can Awareness be an Item of the Imaginable Creation?

(This question is part of a mahā satsaṅga or a great spiritual discussion between Swami and several devotees who had come from various places, seeking the clarification of their doubts.)

Swami replied:- Simple. If the food is not given to the body for a long time, the awareness disappears in that body. If the awareness is eternal, the awareness shall not disappear in the body even if the food is not supplied. The Veda also says that the awareness is born from food (Annat purushah). The word Purusha means the awareness lying in the body (Puri Dehe yat shete tat chaitanyam purushah). As per science, the food is digested, liberating inert energy, which enters the specific nervous system and gets converted into a specific form of work, called awareness that transfers the information from senses to brain. If the food is stopped, the inert energy is not liberated and hence, the awareness is not generated. The awareness exists in the body for some days even if the food is not supplied because the fats stored in the body get converted into inert energy so that the awareness is generated for some days. Once the fats get exhausted, the inert energy is no more generated and hence, the awareness disappears. Ahalyaa, the living human body is converted into an inert stone because the awareness is converted into inert energy, which is converted into inert matter or stone. The reverse process made the stone to become again the awareness bringing back living Ahalyaa. Of course, this conversion process is under the control of God.

The Veda says that God created the inert five elements, then, plants and then, the awareness. Thus, the awareness is a generated product in the process of creation and is a precious part of creation or Prakruti. Awareness is called Paraa Prakruti, which means Paraa = the best part of prakruti = creation. If this awareness itself is God, God should have told that He is the Paraa Prakruti. He told that His creation or Prakruti is of two parts:- 1) Aparaa Prakruti = the lower part of His creation. 2) Paraa Prakruti = the best precious part of His creation. For Paraa prakruti, He told that it is the best part of His (not He) creation (Prakrutim viddhi me paraam). When somebody says that this gold is the best part of his property, it does not mean that the gold is himself! He also told that Paraa Prakruti is the awareness (Jiivabhuutaam). God is unimaginable as per the Veda (Atarkyah) and His creation is imaginable as we see and understand. Awareness being a part of the creation is imaginable and also visible as per the Gita (Pashyanti jnaana chakshushah). You can see the awareness as waves of inert energy on screen since awareness is converted work form of inert energy.

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