Advaita Vedanta postulates that the world is a world of
shadows. Modern science has used the same words. It has as much reality as the
dancing patterns that portray the drama of life on the unchanging TV screen.
Without the immutable, colorless, unshaken screen behind,
the show could not be projected …
The rishis of the old knew that this is a shadow world,
maya, and illusion. But they asked the million-dollar question:
“If this is a shadow world then what is the Being that casts
the shadow?”
A shadow obviously cannot exist on its own. All our
scriptures have given the answer that there is a Being that causes shadows.
This exists because That exists. If that were not to be, then ‘This’ would
cease to be.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Bhagvan Sri Krishna declares, “All
things exist in Me, but mark my mystery, I do not exist in them.”
Fish exist in the water but the water does not exist because
of the fish. Fish cannot exist without water but water can exist without fish.
What Krishna means to say
is that Brahmn is not a sum total of all creation. That is why no amount of
inquiry into the shadow world can give us the truth of absolute consciousness.
Mataji Vanamali – Source book titled – The Science of the
Rishis
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