'Sleeping in Knowledge/ ज्ञान ', one wakes up in knowledge and sleeping in 'ignorance/ अज्ञान', one wakes up in ignorance'.
1.Ignorance is of two type, one is pure ignorance and other in which vrittis(वृत्ति)/ desires prevail, which is our social circle. What people call Death is drowning in this ignorance.
2.Similarly Knowledge also has two levels, one is pure knowledge state, compact and while second one is flowing, What people call Kaivalya/ कैवल्य is drowning in this knowledge pool. If one falls from here, one again comes in the realm of knowledge only. But one cannot pierce this realm with Kaivalya/ कैवल्य.
3.There is another place beyond these two, THAT is NATURAL (प्राकृत अवस्था/ Prakrit Avastha) state. Here also there are two states, one is to drown in it, its called Rasa state and one is again come out of it and float on it, that is called BHAKTI/ भक्ति. Drowning in Bhakti realm only one attain Rasa (रस). After this one is established in the state of Bhakti forever.
Bindu is the cause of birth in us. Creation can take pace with the help of Bindu in three ways.
1. Gross Physical Body: It is generated by coming together of a man and a woman. It is ignorance body. Because of impurities hair and moustaches grow in it. It is always under the influence of Time or Kaal/ काल () and hence subject to death and decay due to element of fire. It carries weight.
2. Second body has no sexual connection for its generation. It is developed with pure knowledge (विशुद्ध ज्ञान/ Vishudh gyan). It is a light emitting form and is also called Siddh Deh / सिद्ध देह or body.
3. Third body is generated when energy rises upwards from bindu/ बिन्दु, instead of coming down. This is a weightless, formless and effulgence-less body. It is also called bhav body (भाव देह) and is generated for Leela/ लीला or divine play.
After passing the kaal lok (काल लोक), where death prevails, on comes to the realm of light, Chidakash (चिदाकाश). Here form is seen and thus form centric. Its a realm of Siddh deh. On its development path is the Kaivalya realm. Beyond Kaivalya is the realm of formless, lightless whose boundary is Great pleasure or happiness or rasa. Whatever has form THAT can be pierced but which has no form cannot be pierced.
So first stage is Kaam/ काम level, Second stage is form/ आकृती level and third stage is Formless level.
So first drowning is in 'SAT/ सत', second CHITT/ चित्त and third is in ANAND/ आनन्द. Contraction and expansion (Sankoch aur prasar/ सङ्कोच और प्रसार) which is basic need for creation annihilation is present in all the three states. In SAT/ सत realm, by merging in it is death while repelling from it is birth;
In the realm of 'CHID/ चिद', by mergence one attains Kaivalya (कैवल्य) and by keeping separate state one takes birth as a knowledgeable person.
In the realm of 'ANAND/ आनन्द', by mergence one attains rasa or nectar and by distraction one appears in Leela/ लीला (divine play).
Where there is contraction and expansion happening that is the space of Shakti/ शक्ति. The space in between the two states of contraction and expansion, is called Vicched avastha (विच्छेद अवस्था) or state and is Shivatva/ शिवत्व or Witness/ दृष्टा.
As with sthool deh/ स्थूल देह one cannot enter into Chit/ चित्त realm, similarly with Chit body/ चिददेह one cannot enter Anand realm and similarly with Anand body one cannot enter Shiv/ शिव realm. Face of Jad/ जड or ignorant is outward(बहिर्मुख, forgets God, while that of Anand (आनन्द) is Inward. At the time of death, due to attainment of Kaivalya/ कैवल्य or Rasa/ रस stage, Shiv Sayujya is attained. A Jeev cannot become Shiva, becuase he is Shiva. From Jeev bhav he can attain Sayujya only and then one has to return form it. When one is coming out at that moment one should be in Anand only, becuase Anand is facing inwards, But if outward facing then even after Shiv sayujya one will be outer facing only. So then Shiv Sayujya will become death and rising or vyuthan as rebirth. Attaining Sayujya/ सायुज्य after becoming inward facing the even after rebirth one remians inward directed. So being attaached with Anand he never descends into the knowledge realm. Thus he is always pulled by centre of anand. When one has knowledge then there is always doubt of Ignorance and vice versa. Beyond both of them there is no desire and here is no doubt even.
Hence even knowledgeable has the possibilty of falling down as there is no centre to pull him up. Thus Gyani (ज्ञानी) or Knowledgeable one is under its own control (स्वाधीन) and ignorant is under others control (पराधीन) while Bhakta is neither under self control nor under anyone elses control.
.....taken from the writings of Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj.......................Shaktanand.
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