Awareness should be taken as the effect only as we observe in this world

[dattaswami]

In the human being, there are three components in the line of awareness.

1) Matter

2) Inert energy

3) Work

Matter means the substance of nervous system and brain. Inert energy means the binding energy involved in the matter and the inert energy existing in the system to do work. Work means the form of inert energy and the work is specific due to the specific nature of the nervous system and brain. In the states of awaken and dream, all these three components exist. But in the state of deep sleep even though inert matter and inert energy exist (nervous system and brain), the awareness is absent since the work is absent, which is the functioning of the nervous system and brain. This is a clear and direct proof to say that awareness is a specific work form of inert energy.

The signals given by another part of brain to systems like heart, lungs etc., do not involve this specific system of awareness and hence do not come under the present discussion of awareness. However, this conclusion of the awareness to be effect form of inert energy or specific work should be limited to the imaginable phase only and should not enter into the unimaginable domain in which the actual unimaginable God exists. In this unimaginable phase, neither matter nor inert energy nor specific work exists and hence in this phase there is neither cause nor the effect. The awareness in this phase and its background are unimaginable. Not only the transfer of information from the senses to the brain is a form of work, but also, the receiving process of the information by the brain is also another process of work only. Therefore, you should not assume that awareness, different from all these components exists separately in brain especially in the view of the above direct proof given in the deep sleep.

[alan1000]

Does anybody have any idea what any of this means?

[dattaswami]

Does anybody have any idea what any of this means?

The one substance from which all this world is made of is the inert energy. If you know this point, you will know that every item of this creation is just basically inert energy only. Even the non-inert awareness is also basically inert energy only because awareness is a specific work form of inert energy (produced from digested food) generated in the functioning nervous system.

Transfer of external information to the brain is done by the vehicles called neurons, which are electrical pulses and this form of work is called awareness. By knowing that the basic material of this world is inert energy only, you will know that every item of this world is a form of inert energy only.

Your knowledge will be this much only and not anything extra. By knowing that this world is basically inert energy, you will not know all the mechanisms of the interactions among various items of the creation, which are various branches of scientific knowledge. Inert energy has no such unimaginable power to make you omniscient. But, if you know that the ultimate cause of this creation is unimaginable God (Parabrahaman), you may become omniscient by the grace of the unimaginable God.