Passage 6

In English

Modifications of the principle of consciousness

declares the . , , , and are modifications of one and the same principle of Consciousness. comprehends all that is experienced by the through impressions received by the sense organs - the eyes, the mouth, the ears, the nose, etc. is immanent in as the principle which absorbs and interprets the messages received through the senses. The eyes, for instance, are like the bulb in a lamp. The bulb cannot emit light. It needs the electric current to make it bum. Likewise the eyes cannot see by themselves. It is the which sees through the eyes. The same thing applies to the ears and the other organs. They all need power of the inner current to do their work. All the sense organs are insentient by themselves. It is that animates them and makes them instruments of the (Consciousness). The universe contains innumerable objects. In all of them, the one unchanging, eternal principle is the . That is . That is . It is the power of this eternal principle which sustains the evanescent and ever-changing objects of the universe. , and (Existing, shining and pleasing) are three indices of the Divine. are the attributes of the Divine. indicates permanace. indicates Omniscience. is the state of unalloyed bliss. These three attributes of the Divine are changeless and have no form or name. When these three get associated with objects which have name and form, we have - the quintuple phenomenal universe. The cosmos is permeated by the Divine. Even if you are unable to see It, the Divine is present in everything. All our senses function because of the Consciousness that operates in every being. Without that consciousness man would be an insentient creature.