Knowledge has a great range. It rests in the middle offering linkage between pure consciousness/purusha on one hand and the foundation of traditional behavioral norms, found in most religions, on the other hand.
Let’s start in the middle and work outward.
In the middle we find knowledge as both manifest and unmanifest serving as a blueprint of perfection for everything. This version of knowledge has been called Veda by the ancient seers. The Vedas can be found in a subtle layer of existence within every one’s consciousness.
Veda may first be experienced as a waveform with intelligence, containing color, beautiful sound and ancient messaging all at once. Sitting back a bit, all this has a spiraling structure never still always alive, vibrant, joyful, tickling the heart with bliss.
From here everything that’s been, is and will ever be within creation is available in its perfect blueprint form.
If we feel into what its source is we find it to be akin to Prakrit, the organizing component of Purusha, pure consciousness. Going deeper we find we transcend the field of “i-want” or desire and we are in the layer or field of liberation, the great Self of peace, with a pure bliss overtone. Deeper and there is pure Nothingness, a place of no attributes, para brahman, source, pure stillness yet so full and blissful.
Nothingness can be visually experienced as a pure benevolent darkness, a Shiva experience signifying the total end but as a grand positive blissful reality. Or it can be experienced as brilliant light like a white-hot brilliance, brighter than bright illumination, signifying the source of everything in its purest state, a Purusha value.
The Great Darkness is more of the ultimate contraction the grand inward stroke devoid of everything/anything, peaceful yet somehow full, calm, and blissful in nature.
The Great Brilliance on the other hand is the ultimate beginning before the beginning resting within Its own Great Self, poised and ready for anything including nothing prepared for the grand outward stroke but in a state of perpetual Stillness, radiant, still and blissful, beyond words if I’m being honest.
We can consider this to be the Rishi value of knowledge/Veda. Maharishi spoke of three components to everything, Rishi, Devata, Chandes. Rishi is the source value. Chandes is the manifest value or the resultant. And Devata is the linkage between Rishi and Chandes.
Taking the full range of consciousness into consideration, I find Devata to be most fascinating. In my opinion, Devata is where the magic happens. Knowledge/Veda is the essence of the Devata value of Wholeness.
As a blueprint It holds perfection of everything. Our perfect self can be known by resting within our own veda. If we allow our inner self to completely experience our own veda we will find ourselves to function at our full potential. However, through time we have lived so much of our existence in a lesser condition that it will take many visits to this layer of consciousness before full resonation with our perfect self can be a 24/7 reality.
On the grosser levels of our own personal veda norms of behavior for the sake of obtaining perfection are prescribed. Pieces of these norms have found their way into traditional religions and observances. They can also be found in parables and old stories with a moral in secular context.
I’d like to end this blog where I started, in the middle. :) by glorifying the Devata value. Realize that on one hand we have this pure consciousness component and on the other this manifest component. Let your awareness rest between these two beauties capturing both and neither simultaneously rest right there. By enlivening this layer of creation, you will at least know perfection in an abstract manner and that will be very good for your soul.
Blessings my friends.
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