MMY at Vlodrop, NE
The thing is, everything has its basis in nothing. I am not talking poetry just now, I am talking physics. Everything has its basis in NOTHING. We see a big tree - thousands of leaves and branches and flowers and fruits. What it the basis of a tree? The basis of a tree is: hollowness - within the seed. And hollowness within the seed is nothingness, from where the whole tree springs. So that thing is very clear, that everything comes up from nothing. Transcendental Meditation is the experience of nothingness.
But that nothingness is like the hollowness of the bunyan seed which has the basis of all the innumerable expressions. The thing is that my hand comes up, my eyes begin to see, my ears begin to hear. Where is 'I'? Hmmm? 'I' is that nothingness which sees through the eyes, through the ears, it moves the hands. That, in the Vedic terminology, is called 'devata'.
'Devata', if we want to translate, we say 'creative intelligence'. Devata is that infinite field of creativity - and different fields of creativity, within the hollowness of the seed. From within, the leaves come up, the branches come up, the flowers come up. These are different devatas which bring out the leaves, which bring out the flowers, which bring up. It's a different terminology. It's a different terminology which gives ex-
pression to the values of nothingness. So let us know for all time that nothingness. We can call it in any term, but it's nothingness, it's abstraction, it's unmanifest reality.
In the Vedic terms: nirgun nirakar. Nirgun nirakar - without any quality, without any shape. It's the field of the unmanifest. The field of the unmanifest is that unified field, where all the diverse values are present, not in the physical form, but in the form of abstract memories. In the Vedic terms they say smritis. In the smritis all the memories are there in the unmanifest. All the memories are there in the unmanifest, the same way as all the memories of the leaves, branches, flowers, fruits, they're all there in the nothingness within the hollowness of the seed.
So we should KNOW to give importance to nothingness. And then we have in our grip the totality. By grabbing on to nothingness, to transcendental consciousness - which is abstraction, nothingness - we say self-referral consciousness, self-referral consciousness, self-referral intelligence, where all the different values are there in the unmanifest state. Transcendental Meditation takes us to experience that nothingness.
An experience of nothingness is that experience which utilizes total physiology of the brain. Total physiology is put to use, is put to function, in the experience of that nothingness, which is the field of all knowledge, all action, all dynamism - the field of total natural law. And we say the field of the light of God, almighty God, the light of almighty God. So when we say 'nothingness', we mean there is no boundaries, there is no distinctions, there is nothing in isolation, there is one unified platform - unbounded nothingness. And there - different qualities of creative intelligence - different qualities of creative intelligence.
In the Vedic literature - Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Surya - all these different, different devatas - huge amount of devatas, devatas, devatas, devatas, devatas. They are the expressions of different qualities of creative intelligence. So let us know forever that if there is anything that should be known, it is nothingness that has to be known. And transcendental meditation is that nothingness which is the seat of all the laws of Nature, the seat of all possibilities - where all these wrong things, negative things of the dark ages, all that will disappear.
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