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The topic of today's discourse will be the relationship between the individual and the Supreme Consciousness. The individual mind of a living being consists of the conglomerate expression of reactive forces held in potentiality and a sense of individuality associated with the "I" feeling in "I exist". This constitutes a living being, an individual expression.

Now, when a living being takes a particular structure in the evolution of their consciousness, that structure, that situation will reflect the potential momentum held within their subconscious mind, their samskaras in Samskrit. They will get expressed in and through the physical body. And again the reactions to the actions will come into the mind and in this way the mind will grow more and more complex, from the mind of the most simple creature to the mind of the most complex creature. As the mind of an individual being becomes more and more developed, in that mind will come the knowledge of its own individual existence. The person, the individual may think, "Not only am I living and doing all of these things, attempting to achieve happiness, but I am aware that I exist. I may reflect 'Why am I doing this, why am I doing that?'". When this process of self reflection develops, the creature containing this capacity for self reflection is known as a human being. There are particular associated physical qualities within a human being. For example, a human being will stand upright. They will not crawl on all four appendages, they will stand upright, they will have a hand which can manipulate the physical world. They will have enhanced physical brain capacity to one degree or another. This is essential for the development of a nervous system which can house this type of self reflection. So, a human being is capable of thinking, "I am aware that I exist, I am reflecting upon my existence and why am I as I am?" This is the speciality of the human being, this self reflection.

Now, the Cosmic Entity, the Cosmic Mind is also self reflective, self aware. But, there are some particular characteristics which differ greatly from those of a human being. First, the Cosmic Entity does not need a physical body. That entity needs no physical eyes to see the physical world. That entity requires no physical body to touch the world, to experience the world. It is not required. Whereas, for an individual entity, the physical body is in fact necessary for expression and experience of the world. Furthermore, the individual entity cannot act in the world without a physical body, whereas the Cosmic Entity may act in the physical world without taking a body of His own.

That Entity is omnipresent and omnipotent. That Entity is everywhere. He is here at this very moment and He is also on the other side of this global planet. He is even in the stars at this very moment. So, He is omnipresent. He is everywhere and He is omnipotent. There is no limit to His capacity. He may do what He likes though He is inclined to follow the laws of Prakrti, that is, the operative principles upon which the manifest universe depends for its smooth functioning. So that Cosmic Entity is not limited by the need for a particular physical structure for its expression, and it is also not limited by the movement of time. For that Entity existed in the hoary past, exists in the very present movement, and will exist in the furthermost recesses of the future. There is no limitation of time for that Entity. That Cosmic Mind is omnipresent, omnipotent and beyond the fetters of time, beyond the fetters of individuality, beyond the fetters of any temporal or worldly potential.

For that Cosmic Entity, this universe, this manifest universe appears as an internal projection. It is within His mind, not outside. There is nothing which is outside of that Entity. Now for the individual entity who has developed through the process of evolution, there is a sense of self reflection. When that entity reflects, they experience that the world around them is outside of them. They experience that the world around is external to their existence. This is not the case for the Cosmic Entity, for that being, the entire universe is internal.

Now, for the developing soul, the individual, there is also the sense of doership, "I am doing this act, I am doing that act. I am reflecting upon my existence." Now, for the Cosmic Entity, there is also the sense of doership. All actions are done, not with His physical body, but within His mind. The worlds rise and they fall again to dust. The subtle forces coalesce into physical expressions. Life evolves and moves forward, consciousness is enhanced and again the cycle goes round. All the cycles, all the passages of eons, come and go, come and go within His mental projection. He witnesses the dance of this manifest universe, enjoying the pleasures and pains, the cycles, the rhythms of creation; and enjoying bringing the creation back into Himself, enfolding the living being within His own consciousness.

So, He delights in the expression which issues forth within His mind and He also delights in the reception of that created expression back into His own mental flow, His own conscious awareness. The individual is like His child, for that consciousness identified with individual expression, which has evolved from the most simple structure, the most simple mind to the most complex structure, the most complex mind, the very tiny reflection of Him; that consciousness, is very much like His. There are not only differences, there are so many similarities, so many ways in which the individual is very much like Him. And so it can be said that the individual mind, the individual consciousness, that has grown from the material existence and developed complexity over the ages, is His offspring.

Now, this offspring has much in common with its parent its divine father, its divine mother. It is the offspring of that infinite Entity. And you know, like that infinite entity, it is self aware. When the human stage is reached, then the mental capacity has matured and the self awareness comes into play, so then there is a commonality with the parent. "I am also self aware" says the individual entity, and there is the capacity for introspection. It is most significant when the introspective capacity is developed, because through this capacity, the entity, the individual, may reflect not only on the world which they see outside of themselves but they may reflect upon their very essence.

They may reflect "Who is it that exists in this body? What am I? Who am I? What is this I?". In this way they will come to concentrate upon their very existence, their cognitive faculty, that capacity to recognize their own existence, their self awareness. In that reflection upon the self awareness, they will, in fact, experience the knowledge of their Supreme Father, that infinite entity from which they have sprung. For when the concentration is on self awareness, then the cognitive capacity, the subtle ability grows in magnitude. And when this occurs, the knowledge of the Divine dawns in the mind of the human being, not as something far away and abstract but as a practical experience.

If the drop of water is dropped into the ocean, it cannot find where it is different from that ocean. When the mind of the individual is directed inwardly to the very essence of the individual existence, to the consciousness which underlies that existence, then like the drop in the ocean, the individual consciousness gets lost in the vast Cosmic Awareness.

As time goes forward, as this becomes more and more the experience of the living being, the individuality, the sense of separation, of separate existence, begins to dissolve. The self reflecting being thinks to themselves, "I have thought that I was a little person grown from the nature, but I have come to realize that I am the child of the Divine. I am the very internal expression of that Divine Entity, and I have chosen of my own free will, which Lord has given to me, to merge my mind into His, to focus all of my mental faculty upon my very essence. And in this process I have discovered that I am no different from the One who has created me. That I and my Lord are made of the same substance, that we are in fact so much alike that when I concentrate upon my Lord, I am like the water which flows into the ocean. I am no different, and the very capacity and knowledge of my Lord has become my own. I and the one I adore are united and I have come to realize that my individuality was only an illusion which I was thinking to be real, but now I see that it was only a trick of the mind. In this way a person who has done deep self reflection will begin to think. Then as the self reflection continues, they will get lost in the ocean of Divine Consciousness; the characteristics and qualities of the omnipresent, omniscient consciousness which underlies their very existence. They will begin to see that this world as their internal projection, not external. They will go beyond the frame of individuality. When this is done, the frameworks of time and place will also dissipate and the individual and the Lord will be one. There will be no individuality after that. It is the natural progression of conscious development, it is the natural flow of evolution that this experience occurs for the living being. It is natural. The natural result of the process of evolution.

So as the individual evolves through multiple expressions in the created universe, they are bound to come, over time, to this position. It is the speciality of the Cosmic Entity to move the universe through the process of evolution. The way in which He performs this function will vary depending upon the stage of development. So, individuality is not a permanent experience. It will come and it will go. Do not hold to it.