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express them fully. Experiences cannot be externalized by means of language. There does not seem to be any medium of communicating experiences.
The experience of joy is reflected on the face. Anger makes the face stern and the entire body constrained. And yet the sternness of the face and the constraint of the body do not give a complete expression to anger.
There are two principles, the jiva (living being) and life. The jiva has consciousness. At the same time it is formless. Consciousness is the dividing line between the jiva and that which is not jiva. In other words, that which has consciousness is jiva and that which does not have conciousness is not jiva.
The next thing is formless existence. We are not familiar with the term “formless' because we live in a world constructed by the sense-organs. We are familiar with this world and the sense-organs only. The mind, the senseorgans and the intellect cannot comprehend the formless. Only those who went beyond the sense-organs, the mind and the intellect could comprehend the formless. Even those who possessed visual intuition and knowledge of other minds were incapable of comprehending the formless. Those who reached the heights of visual intuition declared that there is a formless substance in the world. This substance has neither colour, nor smell, nor taste, nor touch, but it maintains its identity and does not disintegrate. It has no structure. Although it penetrates space, it does not become an obstruction. It cannot be struck. This formless substance pervades the whole universe. It is omnipresent.
This formless substance and consciousness are beyond the reach of the sense-organs. They cannot be known by the sense-organs, the mind and the intellect. They cannot be comprehended by these instruments. We need a different medium to know thein.
It is not surprising that people refuse to accept the existence of formless entities because they cannot be understood with the help of the intellect. Such a refusal is quite
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