The higher nature is the nature beyond bindu, nada and kala. What you paint, draw and create with your hands is a kala, expression and creation. What is created and what we see is also a kala, a manifestation. The higher nature is beyond the manifest creation, it is eternal and not subject to change and decay. Bindu is the source. The first Big Bang in the universe was the bindu, from which everything expanded, the cosmic inhalation and exhalation. With inhalation, everything is absorbed into one point; with exhalation everything is expelled from that one point. That cosmic phenomenon is known as bindu. Birth and death of the universe; birth and death of creation. Not of a planet, not of a civilization, but of the entire creation.
We are only aware of five percent of our universe. Imagine, that one day we are able to have the concept of one hundred percent of the universe, what a staggering experience that would be. Everything of this five percent plus the remaining ninety-five percent is in dark matter. Lights are only suns in the dark space. Otherwise, space is absolutely dark, with suns shining, illuminating some galaxies here, some galaxies there. Imagine the enormity of the universe. If you are only seeing five percent, what if the remaining ninety-five percent becomes visible? That is only one universe. There are multi-verses, and not only one galaxy, but hundreds and billions of galaxies. In the same manner, there are hundreds and billions of multi-verses.
Our brain is like an ant’s brain trying to understand the complexity of the universe. The entire cosmic creation and dissolution is the bindu component. Can you can imagine how vast that is? Can you imagine how vast the kala component is? Not just one universe, but multi-verses. You do not know how many.
Nada, sound, becomes the basis. It is said that sound needs air to travel, yet the quality or tattwa of space is sound. There is no air, so how does the sound travel? We identify sound when it hits our ears. Sound is there all the time. Even in space different sounds have been recorded – sounds of the sun and planets, which pulsate in the magnetic fields. That is nada. Nada or sound is the substratum of creation.
Bindu, nada and kala represent not just one idea, but the entire cosmology. Something that our mind cannot comprehend is cosmology. We are just at the starting point of understanding our own solar system; forget about our own universe. When you see stars, that is another matter. That is not knowing the universe. Imagine how long it will take starting to understand our own solar system? To understand our milky way, and then, Andromeda, our neighbour, then, the third, the fourth, the fifth one; and each one is further and further away. This can go on for eternity. To that which is the controller of this cosmological development and is beyond all that, to that element, I offer my respect.
20 January 2024, Ganga Darshan, Munger