THE MASTER EXISTS EVERYWHERE
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When we are in front of an Enlightened Master, one who is in a no-mind state of completion, the number of thoughts in us also comes down and our kṣaṇa becomes longer. The gaps between thoughts increase. So without even trying, we become calmer, more peaceful, and more aware! The knowable that Kṛṣṇa explains is beyond any changes. It is eternal because it does not follow the laws of creation and destruction like other objects around us. It has always been there and will always continue to exist. Whatever physical matter we see around us follows a particular cause-effect relationship. However, our deepest core is untouched by these changes.
Every thought inside us affects
the functioning of the whole
Cosmos. Whether we want to
accept it or not, we do not
operate as separate islands.
Thoughts that are present in
the space that we live in affect
our mental setup, that is the
way we think and operate.
This positivity and negativity,
creation and destruction, are
all properties of the changing
world around us, of the kṣetra
that we live in. The minute we
know that we are not this
changing kṣetra but the eternal
and unmoving kṣetrajña (the
consciousness that runs the
kṣetra), we are liberated.
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Kṛṣṇa calls this eternal bliss jñeya, knowable. When the knowing happens, the knowable (jñeya), knower (jñātā), and the knowledge (jñāna) merge. In this experience, the knower, known, and knowledge become one. No separate experience, experiencer or object of experience eexists. It is called triputi, where no difference between the three entities exists.
Kṛṣṇa explains that His eternal nature, the eternal Self, is not bound by time. Now He says that He exists everywhere, sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati and He is not bound by space. Normally we understand the presence or absence of an object or person in terms of physical attributes. We function in our lives based upon what we see, smell, touch, taste and hear. If our pañca indriya, five senses, cannot sense anything, we think nothing exists.
