Self-Realization or: Nothing Is What It Seems Until You See Past Your Illusions
By: Advanced Level Self Realization
Tags: Bhagavad Gita, Simulation Hypothesis, Self Realization, Elon Musk, Kabbalah

The Bhagavad Gita is considered to be a condensed version of the Upanishads. Their teachings are referred to as Vedanta.

Vedanta has an essential teaching which all the rest of the teachings revolve around:

1. From birth we gradually become deluded about how we function in relation to our mind, intellect, and actions. 2. Because of that perceptual misunderstanding of how you function, you believe others also function according to the deluded version of how you function. 3. Becoming free from that ignorant deluded state is the liberating experience we need in order to become happy and well-adjusted.

From early on we conceive of our world and our existence through a mistaken view of how people function. When we first become self-aware as we grow up, not knowing how people actually function, we become conditioned by that lack of knowledge into viewing ourselves and everyone based on a mistaken view of causality, or cause and effect.



In quantum physics we are taught that there is an invisible all-pervading causal field existing everywhere in our universe (Higgs Field). That causal field was originally assumed to exist because it must exist or our world couldn’t. According to quantum mechanics the elements our world is comprised of shouldn’t have mass but they do. Something which must exist everywhere is needed to transform sub-atomic massless energy into having mass, thereby enabling the solid world around us to exist. According to cutting edge science our world couldn’t exist and the universe would be nothing but massless particles flying around space without the all-pervading Higgs Field. Which is why the Higgs Boson which is theorized to comprise the Higgs Field has been dubbed “The God Particle.”

Like quantum physics Vedanta also teaches that there is an all-pervading field in another dimension that makes our world possible. Vedanta teaches the same basic thing as quantum physics but takes it a step further. The Higgs Field isn’t the only all-pervading field, or the Higgs Field is one aspect of a multi-dimensional field that doesn’t only cause our physical world to exist. When we see people do things we do not see the actual causal force behind their actions because the forces of consciousness and mind are invisible. They exist in dimensions we cannot see or measure but we know exist from our own experience. We know that within our bodies there are extra-dimensional fields of consciousness and mind which seemingly cause the body or thoughts to act. Vedanta teaches that there is an all-pervading multi-dimensional field that our consciousness and mind is part of and manifest from, similar to how matter is said to manifest from the all-pervading Higgs Field.

This all-pervading field is said to be a sub-quantum field of consciousness and mind which we experience in our body as our self and our mind. It is somewhat similar to how a cell phone is able to manifest the information present in the all-pervading electromagnetic fields radiating from cell phone towers. In essence what Vedanta teaches is that our bodies are like cell phones because they manifest individual consciousness/mind units from a field of consciousness/mind which exists everywhere.

The all-pervading field of consciousness and mind is said to be a combination of countless individual units of consciousness/mind within a unified field of a single consciousness/mind. A good analogy is a drop of water in the ocean. The drop exists as a part of the ocean and shares its essential quality of salt water, but is different from the ocean because the ocean is a distinct and different type of unit then the drop of water. The ocean has massive size and power. The ocean also contains the drop and so much more. Another analogy is the relationship between the Sun and the sunshine. The Sun and the sunshine are one because you can’t have one without the other, and they are also one in the sense of sharing the characteristics of light and heat — but they are also different because one is massively more powerful than the other.

Therefore our own consciousness/mind is said to be a part of yet different from the all-pervading field of consciousness/mind. The all-pervading field is a single entity like we are. The Higgs Field has a cognate in Vedanta in Prakriti, or the primal state of matter which is said to be controlled by the all-pervading consciousness/mind which inhabits it. The all-pervading consciousness/mind has various names depending on the aspect of the field being described.

Because consciousness and thoughts are immaterial and transcend matter, they cannot be grasped or weighed or even detected directly by any type of machine. Machines can only detect biological reaction to thoughts and consciousness. That is because consciousness and mind exist in dimensions different from the 3 dimensions of matter. Similar to how utra-violet radiation is invisible to human eyes but we know it exists from its effects — like a sunburn — so too the all-pervading field of consciousness and mind Vedanta speaks to as the motivating power behind the visible dimensions — it can also be directly experienced through its effects.

In fact we already experience it. Where do thoughts come from? Science so far has not been able to answer that question. Most people mistakingly believe that we create and control our thoughts. But science tells us that in reality we do not do anything to cause thoughts. Thoughts and memory simply appear in our mind without any apparent cause. Scientists have had many theories on the cause and origin of thoughts for a long time, but there is no consensus and no proof on how thoughts come into being. Commonly it is believed that somehow unconscious brain activity is behind the spontaneous appearance of thoughts in our mind. People commonly identify with the thoughts they experience as an extension of their control.

We can observe that the thoughts we experience are not caused by our own control. We don’t do anything to create thoughts. Thoughts simply appear in our mind without any seeming cause. We have no idea how to cause or create thoughts, or how to stop them. Try to explain how you create and control thinking. You can’t. Because we don’t. We can’t observe how thoughts are created or how memory is always available to us. Without constant memory of so many things at every moment we would be clueless about everything, we would be like newborn infants all the time. Instead, without our doing anything to cause them, memory and thoughts simply appear enabling us to exist as intelligent beings. The purpose of Vedanta is to teach you how to experience the all-pervading field of consciousness and mind underlying our world and causing our existence as intelligent life.



When you see someone do something you don’t see the motivating cause of their moving or speaking. But since you believe that your own invisible consciousness and mind is in control of what you say or do with your body, you believe others are the same. Vedanta teaches that view of causation, is an illusion. Your consciousness and mind are not under your control. You cannot explain how to create a single thought, or how to find a single memory, but still we think we are controlling the thoughts and memory we experience — and so is everyone else. Memory and thoughts simply appear in our consciousness and we then self-identify with those thoughts as if they are under our control — even though we have no clue how to create or control any of it.

Bhagavad-gita 5.13

sarva-karmani manasa

sannyasyaste sukham vasi

nava-dvare pure dehi

naiva kurvan na karayan

sarva-karmani — connected to all activity

manasa — willingly, in the mind

sannyasyaste — continuously abandon and give up

sukham — ease, joy

vasi — by your will, controller

nava-dvare -of nine gates

pure — in the city

dehi — embodied soul

naiva — never

kurvan — the one acting

na — nor

karayan — the cause

“Giving up the sense of control you have over all actions and of the mind is joyous. The embodied soul in the city of nine gates (the body) is never the doer or cause.”