"Self the background of world appearance."----Sri Sri Babathakur....(contd.)

Submitted by santanu.das on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 19:52

According to swasamvedya swanubhavadeva Sri Sri Babathakur if one seriously and sincerely starts analyzing oneself one would ultimately find one's own self i.e. consciousness symptomatizing as I of the one to be the background/substratum of one's very existence. This I of everybody is the ultimate witness, experience r of everybody's each and every experience of life. It is practically impossible for any man to make a single sentence about himself without using the pronoun I (This I can also be used as noun to indicate the ego as apparent subject of self-consciousness. This use is found in metaphysics only).
The center of every individual human life is this I. This is found to be the most beloved, valued possession in human life. Generally speaking, nothing else can be more lovable in human life. Only next to this I and centering it only comes our possessions i.e. my/mine. Without the I all my/mine becomes absolutely meaningless indeed.
As discussed earlier this I is nothing but a symptom of the apparent self, known as the monad or jiva in Vedanta philosophy, monism, metaphysics, spirituality etc. I is also the symptom of the the real-self, the absolute-self, the existence-absolute in English language. Therefore, the background/substratum of the apparent self which is the true self, lies ever unattached, endless witness, bhuma i.e. the uncomprehending, shapeless, formless the existence of all existences, the Godhead absolute.