जीवन विद्या एक परिचय

Jeevan Vidya

I have understood jeevan, and from here begins the effort to impart this understanding to you. This process is called "Jeevan Vidya". I want to first clarify that jeevan is eternally the same. Everyone wants to know and believe the reality of jeevan, and to evidence this understanding. This is the basic objective. Jeevan is neither physical nor non-physical. It is a constitutionally complete atom and a sentient entity. What is constitutional completeness? This atom’s constitution doesn’t undergo the expulsion or insertion of particles. However, insertion and expulsion are found in the atoms in physicochemical forms, which are called 'results' - whereby the number of constituent particles in such atoms gets altered. This is the only elemental transformation possible in the world. Whenever humans are able to bring about any elemental transformation in nature, it will be limited to altering the number of particles in the evolving-constitution atoms. Such atoms are of two kinds – hungry atoms and overfull atoms. The atoms that remain in hunger (need) of some particles to become satiated, even as each result is a state of being that exhibits wholeness, have been called "hungry atoms". The atoms wherein some particles want to exit have been called "overfull atoms". In this way, the activity of both kinds of atoms is only towards satiety.

The satiated atom is a constitutionally complete atom. This is the sentient unit (or jeevan). It is termed the sentient unit because it carries the capacity, through sensitivity and cognisance, to be evidenced only in the human tradition. In the absence of jeevan, even if a body were artificially constructed, sensitivity would not be evidenced – let alone cognisance. In this way, humans are able to live in orderliness and to participate in the universal orderliness only by evidencing sensitivity and cognisance. That, in essence, is the task. All beings of the animal order evidence sensitivity, but humans cannot be fulfilled or happy without evidencing cognisance, no matter how much they strive.

Humans inherently seek happiness. In our pursuit of happiness, we sometimes believe that we will find it through comfort and accumulation, and at other times through prayer and penance, or devotion and detachment. All humans make efforts to achieve happiness, yet there is no evidence that these efforts have led anyone to lasting satisfaction and continuous happiness. In my own pursuit of happiness, I have found it through understanding; similarly, I believe that every person can achieve happiness through understanding.