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In this consciousness when one traces backwards his heart-beat or his memory, its continuity takes him as far back as the Big Bang. He will then realise that he was eternally born in the womb of this Big Bang. And was ever carried forward as part of the evolving consciousness. Thus recovering one's original memory, one becomes whole, one becomes Self, transcending the Ego, which is time and space bound.
Our thoughts and feelings can flow alone in time, one can never think or feel outside time. And this time, if ever was marked, it was ever marked at the Big Bang. And we always remain insiders to this Time, can never be outside of it.
What was beyond ? Beyond is the inconceivable, the fundamental vibration from which all vibrations and resonances issue forth. This fundamental vibration is the Self. This Self exists beyond time and space, just like our memory and its field, which has no locus in our organism and yet reveals to us in the organic wholeness of our experience and consciousness.
New Man is Ego's rebirth as Self
So long as we remain prisoners of the mesocosmos, reality will continue to remain for us a What? and Consciousness always the empirical consciousness. But once we include the reality of the higher mind and the soul, the Self, we know then that this consciousness cannot remain. a what? but has to denote something beyond-a Who.
With this recognition of the Who in us, we pass from the mesocosmos to the netacosmos, from the Ego to the Self, from the empirical consciousness to varying degrees. of cosmic Consciousness, and then towards the ultimate Absolute or the "I", the cosmic Purusha. This metacosmos expands our identity from being a mere person, a man or a woman, to the abstract levels of the Yin and Yang, the masculine and the feminine, and sets us on the path of the Tao, which makes us feel ourselves one with the world around us and the entire cosmos.
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