313. Can the Immeasurable be ever Measured?????

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I was told that there is a way to measure the level of Consciousness and know at what level the individual is. But according to what I understand consciousness is some thing which we know very little. We only know that it exists but do know anything beyond that. Why don’t we know more about it? We are unable to know because to know about consciousness we try to use our mind which is too little to grasp it.

Science only accepts consciousness as a state of being responsive to the object which is either outside or inside us. Hence when a person slips into coma we say it is prolonged state of unconsciousness. According to science if we are attentive of a thing at a given time it is a part of our consciousness making it the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our living. To know something I need to be conscious or in other words I have to attentive, this is being conscious.

But is this the same consciousness which is mentioned as Atma Chaitanya? No, simply because if we say the person in coma has no consciousness then we cannot say that Atma Chaitanya in him is gone. All the internal activates in the body is happening and heart beat is still there. This Atma Chaitanya is ever present till we are destined to live. It can never go and come back as it happens in an unconscious person who gains back consciousness.

According to the western psychology consciousness has been defined loosely as a constellation of attributes of mind such as subjectivity, Self-awareness, sentience, and the ability to perceive a relationship between oneself and one’s environment. But the eastern psychology admits it cannot provide a definition for the consciousness as it the ability to perceive a relationship between oneself and the Inner Self. 

That Inner Self or the Atma Chaitanya (Consciousness) is termed as Brahman. We cannot measure it as He is Aprameya, the immeasurable. Dr. David Hawkins list of measuring consciousness level is to simply indicate our awareness. The great effort of the Dr. was to know the level of awareness alone. It is to measure our knowledge on what we are aware of. It is not the same Atma Chaitanya (Consciousness) which a seeker (as mind) wishes to merge with and never to come back again. Even Duryodhana and Ravana were aware of Dharma so in Dr David Hawkins consciousness scale they might have score well too. But did they practice what they knew is the matter.  

Now why it is difficult to practice is the question to be looked into. Our mind is between our body and Self (Atma). If my mind resides in my body realm it is engrossed in activities pertaining to my body alone. My mind gets to feel insecured if my body is not feeling comfortable. It wants all my resources to see that my body is always in the comfort zone.

If my mind has realized Self then it does not think about my body nor does it exercise itself to any burden. It starts to unburden itself of all those previous loads and would make itself light. When the destined time arrives it soars to merge with the Absolute never to come back again.

This is Moksha. There is no level or scale to achieve it, it just happens…….please correct me if my thinking is wrong…..i stand corrected!