CONSCIOUSNESS AND VEDIC RELIGION

    I wrote about the consciousness  and Brain .As I mentioned  in last one there are different views about the consciousness . One is that the consciousness is produced by Brain So the CONSCIOUSNESS is PRODUCT of the Anatomical Brain . The other view is that the CONSCIOUSNESS is the cause of BRAIN or consciousness produces brain function. And lastly the Brain and Consciousness are 2 independent entities . One can easily understand the 3 positions . The one that says that the consciousness is produced by the Anatomical brain is the view of neuroscientist  and may be of the people who do not believe in GOD . The view that the Brian is produced - the function of the brain is produced by the consciousness is the view of those who believe in GOD. Most of the world religions like Christianity and the Abrahamic religions and certainly some parts of Hindu religions believe that the brain is produced by the consciousness. The SANKHA  philosophy is the one that feels that there is consciousness as PRIMARY independent entity and the BRAIN  and  for that matter the entire body and the metrical things in the universe are separate and the Mind and the Intellect are also part of matter  and that is independent entity. The SANKHYA calls it PURUSHA AND PRAKRUTI - CONSCIOUSNESS and NATURE or Matter. The Hindu or VEDICA philosophy has many branches and the ADWAUTYA -NONDUEL philosophy has a very different view. It feels that the only REALTHING is the Consciousness  and it is projected as the entire world . The WORLD is projected by the consciousness and is IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS . So in that view the whole thing that we see or perceive as the entire world which includes our  own body is INSIDE CONSCIUSNESS and nor it is independent nor it is real. 

    This does not mean that there is no world But it means that it is not what it appears to be. ANYTHING THAT CAN BE PERCEIVED IS NOT CONSCIOUSNESS . So the physical body or Mind or Intellect or the entire outside world is not the consciousness. The Consciousness CAN NOT BE PERCEIVED. In the typical example of rope being mistaken as snake -the snake is not there but the rope is there  and so the the view of this philosophy the ignorance causes us to mistake the consciousness as the world To them the WORLD does exist at the transactional  level  called VYAVAHARIK  but at the spiritual level there is nothing but consciousness .

    I DON'R THINK WE REALY KNOW . But just thought of putting some different views on this topic .