Chapter -3.

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Subjectivity and Attention.

The unique entity / phenomenon which is known as "Mind", is itself a 'tool' of 'attentiveness' in our 'Consciousness'. "Consciousness', on the other hand is always a two-way happening. 'Consciousness' has a 'subject', who is attentive to the object.An object is always 'perceived' in 'Consciousness". It may be an outside one, or one within.
The attention may be focused on an outer object, when the mind may or may not be working. If there is an attention to an outward object, and mind is engaged in some other activity also, say; -in 'thinking', then one is least conscious of the mind.
But sometimes, when the mind is just attentive to some outward object without any internal activity of its own, then an altogether different thing happens in "Consciousness".
One can observe the different states of the mind, it passes through. If one just remembers this difference, mind gradually becomes silent, and when needed, only then starts working. For example, when I am writing this post, the mind brings for me the miscellaneous words, and attention is given to the meaning of the sentence. At this moment, though there is a sound of computer, and of some street traffic, and if someone rings the door-bell, I would not be disturbed. I shall soon resume this writing work again, when the required task is over. This indicates the fact, that being 'attentive', and the working of the mind are two different things. One can be attentive to the outer things, yet the mental activity may be according to the need.
It also means that one can be attentive of ones mind also, the working of the 'conscious-level' of the mind. When one looks into this aspect of attentiveness, one immediately realizes that attentiveness is at the core of the 'Consciousness'.
When one becomes aware of the activities of mind, the mind exerts minimum effort in its workings.
S0, 'attentiveness', or more precisely,
"The ATTENTION"
is the only point of contact in 'Consciousness', Now and Here, where we can find / Discover a door to REALITY.
The Movement of Consciousness. :
Science helps us understand that this whole Existence from the tiniest particle to the whole Vastness of Space follow certain Laws, which are not laid-down by a scientist. The scientist just 'discovers' them.He is not sure about the 'Agency', who might have established /ordained these laws. In fact, only a prudent scientist would realize, that there is of course an Intelligence, because these laws are strictly related to each other in a compact way. Had it not been so, their uniformity itself would be endangered.
That Intelligence, -we can say, :
"THE COSMIC INTELLIGENCE"
comprises of Its contents, including the 'knowledge' of the whole Existence.
As 'SPACE' and 'MATTER', 'ENERGY' and Nature infallibly and strictly obey /comply with those laws, it follows that The Agency That has founded these Laws is UNIQUE, without a complement or associate.
In Existence, any movement in consciousness creates a sense of 'Time'. Any happening causes a sense of 'Time', otherwise 'Time' can not be defined.
'Time' is thus, just a 'derived-entity'. It is not a directly perceived 'FACT', like 'The MATTER', 'The ENERGY' or 'The SPACE'.
The other 3, viz. Matter, Energy and Space also depend for their existence on 'perceptive' faculty of some 'conscious' being.
A 'conscious' being is one, that has been endowed with 'Life', with a 'living-body' i.e. an 'organism'.
The Matter (and space also) are the only constituents responsible for composing a 'body', -sentient' or 'insentient'.
When such a body is composed, under conducive circumstances, The laws of Nature spontaneously manifest themselves in the form of an organism, in the body. If no such circumstances are available, it remains a mass of dead matter.
Once the functioning of the organism begins, the 'consciousness' takes hold of the whole body, thus composed.This 'consciousness' is not a result of the chemical reactions in the body, because a sense of 'me' is always accompanied by the 'consciousness'.
It is, just a 'manifestation' of the "Latent' consciousness. This 'consciousness' too is inherent in 'COSMIC-INTELLIGENCE'.
Why ?
Simply, because irrespective of its structure and behavior, it follows the LAWS, that has given it the 'Life'.