विचार, संबंध और चेतना

Thought, Relation-ship,

and Conscious-ness. 

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I have deliberately and intentionally put a hyphen between the words : 

Relation and ship, 

and between the words :

Conscious and ness.

This is because the two aspects of the word :

'relation', 

and the two aspects of the word :

'Conscious'.

Normally 'thought' is the only connecting link that relates a conscious being with any thing, that one comes across.

This objective reality that is connected to the mind is the very thing one thinks of.

But the point is :

What is thought in relation to the mind / consciousness ?

How one when associated with thought,  assumes oneself in terms of a 'thinker'? 

Isn't this assumption 'I think' again a thought only?

Exactly "Who" is there that says :

"I think",

Is it not the underlying consciousness where-in thought arises / appears and soon disappeared too? But does this consciousness utters a single word? 

Is this consciousness the very 'thinker', that is, because of the inherent in-attention only, given an assumed reality and is taken to be real one,  independent of, and a separate entity existing apart from the consciousness?

This may need not be stressed that conscious-ness as the word suggests, is the awareness, (of) being only. Consciousness is thus only the light where-in thought plays its role and is seen / known in this very consciousness only, but in fact, there is no such an entity that voluntarily performs this role. 

So this 'thinker' is again an idea, a thought only. Once this is understood, there could not be any  relation whatsoever between the activity of thought and the assumed entity that appears and disappeares and is given reality because of in-attention of this whole movement of thought  within the field of consciousness.

Once the thought is revealed / realized in terms of an activity, a happening, the assumed 'thinker' is no more.

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किसी भी वस्तु से संबंधित होने के लिए उसका विचार ही वह माध्यम होता है जो उससे इस संबंध को परिभाषित और तय करता है। 

किन्तु वह क्या है जो मन को विचार से संबंधित करता है?

क्या विचार के अभाव में मन नहीं होता? 

क्या समस्त 'ज्ञात' विचार पर ही अवलंबित नहीं होता? 

स्पष्ट है कि 'ज्ञाता' नामक सत्ता भी इसी 'ज्ञात' की पृष्ठभूमि में अस्तित्व ग्रहण करती रहती है और विलीन भी होती रहती है ।

इस प्रकार यह 'ज्ञाता' भी पुनः विचार से ही सृजित होता है, और स्मृति के सातत्य (निरन्तरता) से सत्य प्रतीत होता हुआ, स्वतंत्र सत्ता का रूप ले लेता है ।

इस पूरी गतिविधि में चेतना / बोध पृष्ठभूमि में विद्यमान होते हुए भी न तो ज्ञाता और न वह विचार है, किन्तु इस संपूर्ण गतिविधि का अधिष्ठान मात्र है। 

इस अधिष्ठान का भान निष्कर्षात्मक विवेचना (deductive approach) से, और / या केवल जागरूकता रूपी अवधान (conscious attention) से भी हो सकता है। 

पहले का उपयोग सैद्धान्तिक आधार की दृष्टि से हो सकता है,  जबकि दूसरा कोई निष्कर्ष नहीं, बल्कि प्रत्यक्ष एवं साक्षात्-बोध (अपरोक्ष-बोध) ही है।

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