III. Concentricity and Expansiveness of Consciousness
4:28 AM Posted In Psychology of Yoga: Consciousness: States and Grades Edit ThisConsciousness is expansive as well as contractive. If it encompasses the whole universe and even goes beyond the same in its expansive move, it has the capacity of getting withdrawn to the man’s psychic being which in the last analysis is just a being of self-awareness shorn of dimensions. This behaviour of it evinces its extreme agility and flexibility on account of their measurability.
If the expansive nature of consciousness is responsible for the emergence of the universe out of it via space itself, as the Taittiriya Upanishad (II.1) states, the contractive nature of it is the cause of the staggering multiplicity of beings and objects in the universe. Exclusiveness of the concentricity gives birth to exclusive individualities. Not to speak of the exclusiveness of the human individuals as also of the sub-human beings from the viewpoint of their exclusiveness from one another, even atoms and particles must have their individualities not condescending to forego in any case. So is the case with the human individual. Nobody wants to get exchanged with the other in the core of his being. Everybody seeks to remain himself under all circumstances, howsoever adverse. The drive for individuality is, indeed, a by-product of the concentricity of consciousness.
If the expansive nature of consciousness is responsible for the emergence of the universe out of it via space itself, as the Taittiriya Upanishad (II.1) states, the contractive nature of it is the cause of the staggering multiplicity of beings and objects in the universe. Exclusiveness of the concentricity gives birth to exclusive individualities. Not to speak of the exclusiveness of the human individuals as also of the sub-human beings from the viewpoint of their exclusiveness from one another, even atoms and particles must have their individualities not condescending to forego in any case. So is the case with the human individual. Nobody wants to get exchanged with the other in the core of his being. Everybody seeks to remain himself under all circumstances, howsoever adverse. The drive for individuality is, indeed, a by-product of the concentricity of consciousness.
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