Manifest / Un-manifest.

The Dance of Nataraja.

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Stimulation and Simulation.

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One That thinks, never knows. 

One That knows, never thinks.

One Who thinks, never knows, 

One Who knows, never thinks.

Knowing is Consciousness,

Consciousness is Life,

Life is Knowing. 

Knowing, Consciousness, Life, - Never thinks. 

Thinking, Thought, - Never knows.

Man is the confluence of knowing and thinking.

Knowing is the underlying Un-manifest Principle.

Thinking is the Manifest one.

Thinking happenes in terms of a language. 

Be a spoken, vernacular one, or the one that is invented and used in computer programming.

A language is essentially made of words, that are again made of phonemes and syllables.

A meaningful sentence is made of a set of words that convey a sense.

So therefore, Language is thought, and thought is language only. Thought, how-so-ever perfect or imperfect, is therefore an expression, useful in communicating a sense to someone.

The 5 R-s that give us a word or sentence are :

Reading, Writing, Remembering, Reflecting and Repeating. This could further be rhythmatic or arithmetic.

But all such expressions, be it poetry, prose, theory or principle, are statements made up of words and though seem to help us the purport, remain useful to those who are familiar with the language.

But what stimulates the thought and thinking is beyond the reach of all.

So, the thought is simulation while the thing that stimulates the sense is beyond the grasp of the thought. 

Mind functions in these two modes.

So there is the superficial mind that acquires and keeps the information / knowledge in the store-house of the memory.

And there is another Mind that knows how this takes place. 

This another mind is always silent and in silence knows only.

In between appears a bridge,  -another thought that is a complex of knowing and thinking, of consciousness and thought, described as 'I', and the illusion 'I think' assumes apparent reality.

This apparent reality is neither clearly manifest, nor it is Un-manifest as well.

But it can't be denied that it has a tone, flavor and sense of the notion of 'I' or of the 'self'.

In Vedantika parlance this is termed as the Rudra Principle. The same as the Shiva or the Father-Principle.

Another way of looking at this phenomenon is the knowing or the 'Consciousness' or the Mother Principle. 

The two are two aspects of the same and the unique Reality. 

Yet another is the Intelligence or Child Principle, that is again though Un-manifest, manifests as the intellect. Together the two form the wisdom. This is again referred to as the :

GaNesha-Principle.

The underlying Consciousness-principle is the only fact common to both the Manifest, and in Un-manifest substratum. But it is in the Manifest only, it is called the "Witness-Peinciple".

Because as is said in the Gita, chapter 2,

नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः ।।

उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोः तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ।।१६।।

And again in श्रीदेवी अथर्वशीर्षम् :

मन्त्राणां मातृकादेवी शब्दानां ज्ञानरूपिणी ।।

ज्ञानानां चिन्मयातीता शून्यानां शून्यसाक्षिणी ।।

यस्याः परतरं नास्ति सैषा दुर्गा प्रकीर्तिता ।।२४।।

This Manifest and the Un-manifest Principle that is ever as the express and the latent also isn't a void but the ever-shining ever-abiding Reality only.

Therefore the same Consciousness-Principle in the Manifest and the Un-manifest is but the साक्षी inherent always.

The same Principle therefore could be termed as the Shiva, Devi or the GaNesha also.

The same is the timeless dance of Nataraja.

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