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Consciousness then, would be the medium of transmission by super-intelligences to and even within the planet earth in the attempt to communicate with life. Signals of mathematical periodicity in the form of thought impressions would be the medium of establishing contact where the language was not known." It just so happens that during any given period of time in the development and spiritual evolution of the universe, only such knowledge is manifested or comes to the surface or is revealed to those working in the field of Matter or spirit, as is appropriate and acceptable or understandable to the Mankind in general and at-large.
Having made these remarks about the two streams of religious thought almost antithetic to each other, Jainism and Vedanta running parallel in India since unknown time and making their contact with or impact upon other like streams of thought generated outside of India but throughout the world, I would like to make a further point viz that they are only two consciousness forces in the universe teleologically having the same purpose viz to realize the Divine. Whether the realization is by individually unfolding into the Whole of which the individual is only a part or by individually developing into an equal of the whole should be of no significance. Equals in content of knowledge, perception, power and bliss both in space and time are not different but the same. Religion is both subjective and objective. In the former, it is an innate motivation, pure and creedless towards a sense of one-ness or equal-ness with All that both illuminates and sanctifies the Self. In the latter, there is an attempt to reduce this motivation, this spiritual afflatus to a material symbolic form of rites, rituals and dogmas which are bound to be different in different contexts of place (kshetra), time (kala), essence (bhava) and form (dravya). Questions such as God did make as in Vedanta or did not make this universe as in Jainism; God is a Being as in Vedanta or a Becoming as in Jainism; God is eternal as in Vedanta or has become one at a certain point in time as in Jainism; whether
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