The Law Of Karma

The Scientific Consciousness. 

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The core principle of Sanatana Dharma is --

THE INEVITABLE, INDENIABLE AND IRREFUTABLE  : LAW OF KARMA.

The two words;

Science and Consciousness are cognates of two different root words in Sanskrit.

Both could be seen to bear resemblance with two similar verb-roots धातु  in the Sanskrit.

From the verb-roots root -

शी - शयति - संशयति, sceptic, suspects,  and शेते, meaning asleep and शान्तः,  in peace, collected, calm, potential, 

and another verb-root - 

शक्, शंक्, शंस्  - शक्यते, शक्ति, प्रशंसयति, शंक्यते - in English : capable, of strength, praises, Science, doubts or suspects.

Again Science and Conscious, Sense and consciousness could again be accepted as closely related cognates conveying the near about and similar meaning.

Science of consciousness

Is therefore and accordingly :

यम / The Law Supreme but next and secondary to Dharma / Karma that governs the functioning of :

प्रकृति or the Nature.

धर्म and यम together are also known and called too as the  यमधर्मौ - अश्विनौ and the analogy between the two pairs is to be seen. The two Equinox -  is cognate of   अश्विनौ -- the Sanskrit word - namely the two "sons" of  The heavenly / Celestial "SUN". The Sun begot these two "sons"  from His spouse / wife named  "संज्ञा".

This is not Mythology but Sattology; -as is there in the :

स्कन्द-पुराण  / skanda purANa - ancient Sanskrit Text dealing with, explaining the beginning of the manifestation of the material aspect of the world.

संज्ञा the Sanskrit word is again made up of a prefix / उपसर्ग "सं" denoting "perfect and appropriate" while the verb-root "ज्ञा" - (वि)जानाति, प्रजानाति  denotes simple "knowing" / "perception" either through the senses of knowledge (ज्ञानेन्द्रिय) or in the form of the intellect or thought and information that could be stored in one's memory.

"संज्ञा" thus is "the consciousnesses" or the "sentience".

"Sun" is in this way, the father of the two Equinox and is also the Material Law that governs the whole material existence.

"Consciousness" - or the "संज्ञा" on the other hand governs the मन / the mind of both the entire and the whole Life as well as the  "वैयक्तिक  मन" / the individual mind also. 

As is declared in the Gita :

भूतानामस्मि चेतना।।

The direct and simple meaning is : 

I AM (THE "SELF")  as consciousness in all the sentient creatures / beings.

"Self" here is the same as Atman or the I AM. Though in the individual, it  assumes the form of "अहङ्कार"  or the "self" / ego.

धर्म, यम, and  कर्म

Are therefore the three Essential Laws that govern the whole  existence at three levels.

धर्म / स्वभाव / प्रकृति

यम / शक्ति

कर्म / कार्य

The three could be synonymous with the spiritual nature, the mental thought and the physical action.

The Law of Karma therefore applies at all the three levels - The Spiritual, The mental world of the individual and the Physical, material level.

We know in Physics it is described in the following way --

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

The Three attributes in Physics - General Properties of matter - namely the light, inertia and energy  are but gross aspects of the same attributes in the mental - in the form of characteristics (गुण) and in the spiritual as Existence consciousness and Light / Bliss.

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