Excerpt from The Cosmic Kaleidoscope
The cosmic creation comes about as consciousness begins to imagine its own existence. Something that has consciousness and imagines something, is called mind. The great mind that imagines the cosmic creation is called cosmic mind.
Knower-I
The first stage of the transformation of unmanifest cosmic consciousness into manifest cosmos is cosmic I-feeling. Prior to this, consciousness has no expressed state of being. The feeling of being a self is a matchless state: “I exist”, the most subtle state of expressed being. This state enables the cosmic to experience its further manifestation. Cosmic consciousness has become a substantiating entity witnessing its own manifestation.
The verb exist does not indicate action but a state of being. In this fundamental manifest state, there is no difference—no verb, object, comparative adjective, etc.—only the subjective “I am” and the non-comparable “cosmic”. The cosmic self simply is: “I am cosmic”. This core of the cosmic self is an aware entity, and its cosmic subjective knowledge sustains all other expressions of the cosmos.
Doer-I
When the cosmic knower-I develops the urge to generate action, it creates the doer-I out of itself. This is a major shift in the cosmic kaleidoscopic evolution. Until this doer-I gets into action, the created cosmos remains a singular entity with one purpose only: existential oneness. With the doer-I arrives the potential scenario of a diverse world. The cosmic doer-I thinks: “I create the cosmos”.
Everything is done by the operative principle, which acts on the imagination of the cosmic cognitive principle. Neither of them is, however, attached to any of those actions and their results. Even in the form of the doer-I, who is directly involved with creating, maintaining and dissolving everything in the creation, the identification of the operative principle is one of cosmic love, of oneness with every action. The cosmic doer-I is not egoistic or selfish like an individual’s personal ego. Rather, the actional faculty of cosmic consciousness is generous and caring in the extreme—beyond relativity and equanimous in its outlook.
Done-I
The cosmic knower-I is dominated by the sentient tendency, and the doer-I by the mutative. With continuous cosmic crudification, the static tendency of the operative principle grows in prominence. The static is what gives definite shape to the results of the actions. Manifest creation is therefore termed as done-I: “I am the manifest cosmos”. It is in the done-I that we find the universe and the basis for our physical, psychic, and psycho-spiritual evolution.
When a potter makes vases, cups, etc. he or she makes them out of clay or any other material that may be burnt so that they become firm and usable. The material used by the cosmic mind for fashioning the items of our microcosmic existence is called mind-stuff. The entire universe is formed and shaped by this cosmic “clay”. From where does the cosmic mind get this sort of material in such enormous quantities? The doer-I provides it by a process of crudification where malleable mind-stuff is generated out of cosmic knower-I to be further processed as detailed in Part 2 of the book.