The Law Of Four

About Laws and Rules :

Yesterday I wrote :

The Rule Of  Four

We know that Laws are firm and strict, inviolable, while the Rules are flexible and could adopt to different situations and conditions.

The Supreme Reality is The Intelligence Non-dual Supreme, that governs the Laws while the Manifest and the Latent Reality is The consciousness where the formal division between the subject and the object, between the subjective and the objective appears to exist.

The Supreme Power that is associated with The Supreme Reality is Itself the Law; The Manifest and The Potential Unmanifest is The indirect mode of the Nature / प्रकृति having two aspects - one, the Power Of Knowing and another Power Of Activity. Of the two, The Power Of Knowing is the static while the Power Of Activity is the dynamic aspect of this Power.

The Supreme Reality is The Awareness; The Nature / प्रकृति  is consciousness.

The consciousness has two modes :

The Mechanical or the instrumental - the Activity, and The Authoritative or the Ego - The Knowing or the Light.

The instrumental is the illuminated, the Ego is the one that illuminates. Still the Light that illuminates both is beyond the two.  

The Rule Of Four  

applies to the illuminated / instrumental and helps in conducting the activities of the material world, and also to the Ego that assumes the sense of authority over the world seen by itself in its own very limited light. We can say it is the world of the individual.

Still there is an authority that controles and regulates the functioning of both the worlds : the individual and the collective as well.

This is Mahat Prakriti / महत् प्रकृति :

मम योनिर्महद्ब्रह्म तस्मिन्गर्भं दधाम्यहम्।। 

Thus points out Gita. 

Now about The Law Of Four :

Ego the individual has two predominant attributes : One is physical and mental activity, and the another is just knowing only.

We can see that while our body and the  mind go through any activity, we say : I do, did, will do, should or shouldn't do; at the physical / bodily or even also at the mental level and when that state of body / mind is over and we perform any another activity, we assume the sense of doer-ship and claim to do,  did, will do,  should or shouldn't do. 

Obviously during all the time there is a sense of knowing that is though in-active watched the happening of the activity. The One Who knew didn't perform the activity and only saw that it was being performed.

Now we can relate this fact with :

The Rule Of Four

While in the world everything appears to happen prompted and governed by some Law unseen by us, in the individual one spontaneously and without any effort associates oneself with the sense of the doer-ship, and with the sense of having seen the happening also. Though the activities keep on changing all the time, the sense of doer-ship and the knowing remains unchanging.

Then there are physical / bodily states of "being" when one has to go through the states of childhood, adulthood, middle-age and old-age.

Not only we humans but almost every living being goes through this what we call it's "life-cycle".

So long as one is kind of an animal, one can't see this whole pattern. Only a man of intelligence can see and discriminate this whole thing.

Accordingly though the Nature / प्रकृति  itself facilitates this for all living beings only a human with evolved and mature consciousness can understand this fact.

This is verily :

The Law Of Four.

In Vedantika parlance this is called the four  आश्रम / Ashrama namely :

ब्रह्मचर्य / brahmacharya

गृहस्थ / gRahastha

वानप्रस्थ / vAnaprastha and

संन्यास / sannyAsa respectively.

Everyone has to go through these four states of "being" and "experiencing" too.

This is the Law. 

Or

The Law Of Four.

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The  Category  Of  Four

(संस्कृत  -- कतिगृहीय कोटिगृहीय)

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