September 28, 2023
The New Age Consciousness, especially in the Western World today, is bursting through the Black Hole of spiritual awareness!' Black Hole' is merely symbolic: it is a mystery since it cannot be seen. According to physicists there is a strong probability that black holes exist. They are the intensest known gravitational fields or points. Light emerging from the black hole bends and falls into itself, returning to its own source. There is a further speculation that whatever falls into the hole or field entirely loses its identity, but may emerge (in all possibility) into another space-time paradigm. The same physicists have also come up with a very interesting new theory of ' the holographic model of the universe' (everything contains everything else in its entirety). Perhaps the two 'probabilities' can be combined into the pratyahara and pralaya phenomena.
The Yoga Vaisistha mentions several pralayas (pralaya may mean dissolution, as in entry into the black hole or reabsorption). We can now hold a graphically related a black hole probability to several everyday events.
1. Birth: The Upanishads declare that man himself is reborn as his own child. If you contemplate the process of conception and birth, you realize that it is really the father (perhaps 35 years old) entering into the intense gravitational field (of love) and emerging a little later into a different time (a newborn baby) and with a different space.
2. Deep Sleep: awareness enters into the black hole, emerges in dream after dream, and then into the waking state (we think nothing has changed, though the world has undergone great changes before we wake up and the time we slept just vanished into a moment).
3. In death we enter into a black hole, to emerge God-knows-where-and-when-as-what.
4. In meditation: The phenomenon of light falling upon itself resembles pratyahara . Samadhi is, exactly, entry into the inner gravitational field of devotion-meditation where all identity is lost. The meditator merges enlightenment. From the conditioned to the unconditioned.
5. The Enlightenment-experience may be the final black hole - called atyantika pralaya.
In addition to all these, the earth may enter into a nearby black hole, the solar system into another, and (at the end of the life of Brahma the creator) the entire creation may enter into its own black hole in cosmic dissolution! May you enter the Enlightenment field before that, now itself!