149. Brahman is not Noun……..!

Brahman is not a Noun and not confined to Space Time and Causation. Brahman is a power. It is a continuous emanating power which has everything in its domicile. It has grown into the existence and has become all that is. It is still growing to become what it has to become and there is nothing to stop it. 

Brahman is said to be “ASTI”, “BHATI” & “PRIYAM”. Asti is omnipresence; Bhati is awareness; Priyam means lovability. To this Asti, Bhati and Priyam if Nama and Rupa (name and form) is added it is the world we perceive. A pig or a buffalo in the dirty water can be an object of love, as it is also Brahman. But what hamper our love to it are the name and the form. If we start looking at everything around us minus its name and form then what remains is the Brahman itself and we would like each and everything we see. 

Nama and Rupa (Name and form) are past bondage. The eternal fact is that which IS, is only one and it is omnipresent and hence is in all. We identify the object around us as table, computer, and so on. There is thus a difference in name and form only, but THAT which IS, is present everywhere and at all times. This is Astiva, omnipresence of THAT. To say that a particular thing exists there must be someone who can see, a Seer. That intellect which can experiences the seen is known as Bhati. And then there must be some feel to enjoy that which is seen and say, I like it. That is Priyam. All these three are the qualities of the natural Self. They are also called Existence, Consciousness and Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda). 

Now if the above said statement is true then everything in this universe should be lovable to a person who has considered everything to be Brahman. Does this mean that Priyam has to exist when we see a lion or a tiger? Here we may not have any love for them as we are looking at the lion in its form and name, but most wonderfully and amazingly every species demonstrate love towards its own kind. A lion like another lion. So Priyam is always existent. The objects with names and forms appear and exit. 

If suppose we are watching a movie on a screen, we see the image on the screen with the help of a small light that is used to project the image on to the screen in the dark; suppose if that darkness is dispelled by using a bright light, is it possible to view the image on the screen? No, the whole place becomes bright with light and we are unable to see the image on the screen. Exactly in the same way if we see the universe with the small light called Mind, we find it full of different images and colours. But if we are able to see it with the bright light called Self-realization, we are to experience one continuous universal light and nothing else.