The Atman or Individual or Unit Consciousness

Saccidánanda has 3 terms, wrongly translated as:

• sat: existence
• cit: knowledge
• ánanda: bliss

The correct translation is:

• sat: a Transcendental Entity that undergoes no change
• chit: consciousness
• ananda: divine bliss

The Transcendental Entity may appear to undergo a metamorphosis but actually undergoes no qualitative change.

• Hence, Sat can only mean the Transcendental Entity – an absolute entity which undergoes no change.
• Ananda is divine bliss experienced subjectively and not in an objective manner.
• The power of cit created the Cosmos. The unit mind experiences or activates created substance through this power.

This subjectivation is only due to the Consciousness or Citishakti in Brahma.

• microcosm
• Macrocosm
• Puruśottama
• Paramátman.

The whole Cosmos in Saguńa Brahma is the thought-projection of the Macrocosm.

The process of perception

The microcosm has 10 organs:

• 5 sensory
• 5 motor

Sensory organs receive tanmátras from the objects which are perceived. These organs or indriyas are, therefore, the knowers of these objects.

In the next stage, through the afferent nerves, citta receives the quantum-perceptions and takes the form of the object perceived.

The Ego-Layer feels the subjectivity – “I perceive”.

• But this subjectivity itself depends on the existence of “I”, because one cannot work unless one feels that one exists.
• “I” exists first and then the “I” works.

This feeling of existence is the Identity-Layer . The combination of both layers is the instrument for perceiving the quantum-perceptions which have been brought in by the sense-organs.

The mind is the combination of:

• Identity
• Ego-Identity
• Mindstuff

The mind is thus the knower and master of the sense-and-motor-organs

But the unit consciousness or átman is the real knower, not the mind. It is:

• the master of functions
• the witness of these functions being performed
• the witness of Identity

This unit consciousness is the reflected Consciousness on the unit psychic plate. This is:

• the active element
• the witnessing entity.

The unit consciousness knows because it is an active participant in the function of the mind.

The function of the 5 motor organs is to activate the quantum-perceptions.

The organs work by translating their potentialities into action with the help of the out-going quantum-perceptions radiated through the motor nerves, which (the motor nerves) in their turn receive the quantum-perceptions from the mind.

Thus, the doership lies in the mind and not in the motor organs.

• The real doership is in the unit consciousness, who witnesses that the mind is activating the internal saḿskáras, or accumulated momenta, in the form of quantum-perceptions.

The unit consciousness is not active. But it is due to the unit consciousness – due to its omnipresence – that the mind is able to work.

To this extent, the knowership or doership lies in the unit consciousness.

1. An external object first exists in the sense-organ
2. From there it comes within the scope of the mind
3. Ultimately the real knowership or doership is established in the unit consciousness

The ultimate existence of the mind is itself in the unit consciousness.

• Thus, the ultimate knowership, doership and existence are in the unit consciousness.
• The collective name for the 3 is “witnessing entity”.

The mind is nothing but a state of never-ending clash amongst the static, mutative, sentient principles.

• These correlated belligerent combined principles lead to the formation of the mind.

An absolute entity witnesses the mind in:

• all the aspects of time
• all the dimensions of space
• all forms, physical and psychic.

This witnessing entity is the unit consciousness.

• It exists at all stages in the Cycle of Existence.

In crudification, the Macrocosmic Nucleus acts as the witnessing entity of the Cosmic Mind.

• The unit consciousness of the Macrocosm is, therefore, the Macrocosmic Nucleus Himself.

In subtilification, the Macrocosmic Nucleus by His ota yoga reflects associatively on the microcosm.

• The reflection in each mental plate is the jiivátman, the witnessing entity of the unit mind.
• The unit consciousness is not an active counterpart.