One consciousness and the many
प्रवृत्ति भेदे प्रयोजकं चित्तं एकमनेकेषां |
Pravrutti Bhede Prayojakam
Chittam Ekamanekesham||
Consciousness is one. It however
divides itself or rather has the capacity to divide itself into two – the seer and
the seen. The seer remains the witness and the seen multiplies into many - the manas – mind with its capacity to
generate many different kinds of thoughts, the buddhi which has the capacity to
decide firmly on what is the right thought to follow and suitably advice, the
chitta which has a memory storehouse to go back to and the Ahamkara whose duty
is to say this is my decision, my thought, my memory, my breathing, my joy, my
body, my name, my family, country, world, religion…
Among all the different roles of
consciousness that appears as natural differences, it is primarily just one. It
can be compared to a child playing on the sea sand. The sand that is used to
build a castle is just one, but it appears as a fortress, a palace, as a road,
a well or a moat. When someone just playfully steps over the sand castle, it
returns to its original state of pure sand alone. - SS
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