"Consciousness can never experience its absence."----Sri Sri Babathakur....(continuation of 11/08/2009)

Submitted by santanu.das on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 11:57

Sri Sri Babathakur after panning a glance on the faces of the listeners (unique of Him)said with a laughter that the space remained as it is both before and after the erection of the walls. Had the space, now occupied by the walls been absent at the time of erecting the walls, then how could the walls being erected at all? We all know that to keep anything the first and foremost requirement is space. Space being the subtlest matter (according Vedanta philosophy) is the substratum, the cause of the other four matters viz. air, fire, water and earth ( from subtle to gross order ).
Sri Sri Babathakur pointed out a very very interesting question which is also pertinent to this context. He said consider a ball which has space both inside it and outside it is rolled off. What would happen to the space inside the ball, shall it start rolling or shall it remain motionless, still? This question He said, He had asked to a few scholars of material science who called on Him a few decades ago from the Occident. Sri Sri Babathakur said that He noted with astonishment that after thinking for days together they could not find the right answer. He said the sky (space) in the ball and outside the ball being the same would behave alike. The space being the subtlest matter ever present in the creation as the substratum of the creation. Without space the entire creation was impossible. So from this standpoint in the creation the material space can never experience its absence.
Sri Sri Babathakur says that similarly consciousness which is the background, the substratum of all in essence, can never experience its absence.