Sambodhi 2009 Vol 32

Author(s): J B Shah, K M patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 33

Vol. XXXII, 2009
Major progress linking modern science and...
In Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology, Veda is the record of the selfreferral mechanics of creation. The Veda is the language of nature, and the sequential structure of Vedic sutras is the sequence of steps of how the laws of nature manifest the phenomenal universe (1). Because the universe is nothing other than the unified field of nature, and the unified field is a universal field of consciousness that is the core of individual consciousness, the abstract mechanics of creation are said to be directly experienceable as 'the finest fabric of consciousness.'
The sound vibrations of the Veda, called Shruti, are the wave mechanics of the totality of nature that structures all objects in nature, subtle and gross. The
dividual human physiology encompasses the totality of these fluctuations, and encompasses the same fluctuations that make up the entire cosmos. Thus the individual is cosmic, the individual is Veda (3). That is the meaning of many Vedic expressions, such as the integrative Vedic statement from various Vedic texts, 'I am That, Thou art That, all this is That, and that alone is.' These expressions can be related to different perspectives of the ultimate unity of nature. 'I am That' can be associated with the first-person perspective, 'Thou art That with the secondperson perspective, 'All this is That' with the third-person perspective, and all this is That with the three-in-one perspective of the totality of the unified field. These expressions relate to natural experiences in the highest state of consciousness, the culmination of the process of human development and evolution. Seven states of consciousness
In Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology, the full range of human development and evolution is described in terms of the sequential unfoldment of seven states of consciousness. As Vedic educator Dr. Bevan Morris states, “There are seven distinct states of human consciousness, each with its own physiology and each with its own world of experience (27).” Here is a listing of the sequence of the seven states of human consciousness. In this brief description, they are placed on a continuum from virtually no wakefulness to infinitely full wakefulness, distinguished by the experience of self and environment (subject and object) characteristic of each state (1, p. 424).
"Waking (Jagrat Chetana)-individual self and relative environment; Dreaming (Swapn Chetana)—illusory individual self and illusory environment; Sleep—(Sushupti Chetana)—virtually no experience of self or environment;