The ultimate goal of this system of meditation is cosmic consciousness. Once the mind has been led to the Transcendental Being, it becomes devoid of objective consciousness and that which remains is purely subjective. This state of pure subjective consciousness is called Self Consciousness or Self-awareness. As the mind emerges from purely subjective Self Consciousness and resumes objective consciousness, then it brings with it the state of being, which it infuses into the experience of the relative world. This condition, in which Transcendental Being is lived in the midst of the diversity and experience of the relative world, is cosmic consciousness.
The nature of it is beyond description, for it is out of the realm of words. Its very nature is union of the two extreme polarities—negative and positive, harmony and disharmony, silence and activity. When the eternal silence of the un-manifest is joined in living experience with the eternal activity of the manifest, not at distinct times but concurrently, and then is experienced that which is beyond words. If we, try to render the state into words we find ourselves descending into absurdity. If we were to say that cosmic consciousness includes seeing and not seeing a flower at one and the same time we would seem to be talking nonsense. This is a state which transcends thought—and speech and action.
The silent nature of Consciousness defies description. The active aspect of it permits description, but when both aspects are brought together-silence in activity, and activity in silence—the tongue stands mute.
At the same time, although definition is impossible and the possibility of description limited to the point of absurdity, some attempt must be made to give a glimpse of it, to hint at its nature, to communicate some small idea of it. In the way that the taste of sugar cannot be defined and yet we can render some idea of its sweetness by words and associations, so it is with the state of Transcendental Being—even if in trying we run the risk of seeming absurd. Because cosmic consciousness is a state wholly inclusive of both the Transcendental and the relative fields of existence it can only be described in terms of two opposites, of two seemingly contradictory statements. So we start by saying that it is that which lies between the opposites between eternal silence and perpetual activity—and that it is both activity in silence and silence in activity. Even though this state may be beyond the ability of the human intellect to conceive, it is real— with a far greater reality than the intellect which fails to conceive it.
Self Consciousness, let alone cosmic consciousness, cannot be truly described. How then can the difference be described? It can be attempted. Cosmic consciousness is universal awareness and Self Consciousness is Self-awareness. Self-awareness is the state of the Transcendental Nature. The state of Being is again indescribable and, again, can only be hinted at by two contrary statements; one that it is a state of positive experience and, two that it is a state of no experience.
When the mind experiences the subtle states of the medium of meditation, the mind is the experiencer and that which is experienced is the object of experience. The subject-object relationship is established when experience begins. The process of meditation ultimately leads to the Transcendental Being, when, the subtlest point of the object is transcended and the experiencer alone is left, devoid of the object. When the object of experience is no more, and the subject alone is, this is a state of no experience. The subject and object have become one--daulity has ceased to be and unity alone is found. When the subject, the experiencer, and the object of experience merge together, it is fullness of experience. Experience then is so full that the two are united. In one sense it is a state of no experience because the object of experience has ceased, to be. In another sense it is the fullness of experience because the experiencer and the experienced are united together. This is why we are able to say that it is a state of positive experience, which as such is true, land in the same breath, assert that there is no subject-object relationship, which is also true and the higher truth is that both the statement, taken together, are true.
The inward march of the mind, in meditation, leads to Self Consciousness, and when Self Consciousness is brought out into the field of the relative world and lived, it pervades the whole field of activity. Then the eternal silence of the Transcendent goes hand-in-hand with activity in the world; the inner eternal silence and the outer perpetual activity are harmonised and lived together in the state of silence in activity and activity in silence.
To reach cosmic consciousness from Self-Consciousness no direction for practicing of the mind is needed. The mind, having gone inward to the Transcendent has to come out again; it cannot remain forever in Transcendental Being.
It is this very coming out of the mind from the Transcendental which constitutes the process by which cosmic consciousness is attained. The coming out is an automatic event, and an inherent part of going in; the diver dives and, having dived, emerges. In the course of diving, he leaves the world, but the world must call him back, since he is a created human being. Once back he engages in manifest activity and this is already part of cosmic consciousness; this very engagement in activity is the active part— one half—and all that remains to be added is the other, silent, un-manifest half.
So, through this special system of deep meditation, cosmic consciousness, the highest peak of human evolution, the state in which man the human is transformed into Man the Divine can be attained. The process of attainment is not difficult, nor laborious, nor demanding of suffering; is it simple, sure and, above all, natural.
