We can change from dark-oriented objective information, to Total Consciousness or total Happiness. That life-preparing process, or journey, is called Yoga. The path of yoga leads to total Happiness. Any path is Yoga if it is able to achieve that purity and realization.
Then only Yoga becomes Yoga. Otherwise Yoga becomes Bhoga. Real yoga reveals how we can get rid from the bhogic sorrow and unhappiness. The Yoga light is not for darkness, but for Total Consciousness.
MoH: Swamiji is using the term ‘Total Consciousness.’ We also know about
Swamiji’s ‘Education for Total Consciousness’ method practiced in the Isa Viswa Vidyalayam school, and Swamiji’s yoga practice called ‘Life for Total Consciousness.’ People are increasingly talking about 'consciousness’ and ‘collective consciousness,' and scientists are researching which part to the brain corresponds to consciousness. What exactly is Consciousness?
Swami Isa: Initially we can explain what is normally meant by the word ‘consciousness.’ Perceptions from the five senses about an object are received by neurons, processed through the brain, and thoughts about the object are created.
This becomes our awareness about the object, and we say, “I am conscious about it.” That means, we are aware about it based on thoughts. But that is not real Consciousness.
Thought and information are pieces of darkness, or shadows. Awareness is a mixture of shadow and light. Consciousness is pure light. It is pure, non-vibrating happiness.
Awareness is only pieces of happiness.
Consciousness is not darkness, it is not mortal. It’s pure, total happiness.
MoH: This leads us to the next question: Swamiji’s unique theory, called the
“I-Theory,” relates Energy to Consciousness. Could Swamiji please explain Energy some more for us?
Swami Isa: We can give a simple explanation. Non-vibrating, total happiness is Consciousness. In the stage of vibration, it is energy. The different frequencies of energy develop three types of matter (white, red and black), in addition to time and space.
Essentially, we can say that energy contains frequency, wavelength, matter, time and space. In modern life, all are thinking these exist separately, but they cannot be separated. The I-Theory explains this reality.
Space, vacuums, avaktya, dark matter, black holes—all these terms are still a question, not only for common people but for scientists also. If any able mathematician does not have functional knowledge of the number one, all the ‘problems’ will make a problem! Solutions are only based on the basic unit of one.
We know about matter, mass, atoms, molecules, subatomic particles, and Higgs bosons, but we still do not have a clear idea about the basic ‘one’ of the universe. The I-particle is the basic unit, or leg. All energy travels with these legs.
Energy is not just electrons, or electricity.
Quantum physicists have unanimously
agreed that the entire universe is made up of packets of energy, but they stop short of knowing which packet is the basic packet.
That is called the I-particle, the I-vibration.
Knowingly or unknowingly we use the subjective expression, “I”. In the same way, for objective, worldly things we express through numbers with “one.”