Dr. Vijai S Shankar MD.PhD.
Published on www.academy-advaita.com
The Netherlands
11 February 2018
Birth of Identification
“Light and subtle sound”
A man or woman takes what he or she identifies for granted. A man or woman believes that he or she can identify what is seen, heard, touched, felt and smelt. A man and woman are convinced that they can identify.
The enlightened have, however, indicated that man or woman is not the doer. This implies that identifying happens to man and woman and that they do not bring about identifying.
So what is the understanding of the wisdom of the enlightened that man and woman are not the doer, though man and woman can identify. How could this be understood by man and woman is the question?
Primitive man used to eat instinctively everything that he could instinctively see. This is evident because the modern-day child instinctively eats everything that it instinctively sees.
As evolution progressed, primitive man, through sight, ate food instinctively that he liked and instinctively did not eat the food that he disliked. This was identification by sight, which is light. The same is evident in a modern child.
As evolution progressed, primitive man ate food instinctively that he liked and instinctively did not eat the food that he disliked. This progression was identification by sight and taste. The same is evident in a modern child.
As evolution progressed, primitive man ate food instinctively that he liked and instinctively did not eat the food that he disliked. This progression was identification by sight, taste and smell. The same is evident in a modern child.
As evolution progressed, primitive man ate food instinctively that he liked and instinctively did not eat the food that he disliked. This progression was identification by sight, taste, smell and touch. The same is evident in a modern child.
As evolution progressed further, thoughts of foods evolved in the mind as well. Next, evolution precisely superimposed thoughts on the foods that primitive man saw, tasted, touched and smelt. This superimposition of thoughts was the birth of identification as subtle sound.
The same phenomenon of identification evolved in the primitive man for all objects that he could see, touch, hear, taste and smell. The birth of identification began with food and later progressed to every object.
The same identification-process is evident in the modern-day child. This signifies that identification is an evolutionary phenomenon of light and subtle sound and is done neither by man nor by woman. Humans merely take identification for granted.
The enlightened have rightly proclaimed that man is not the doer.
Author: Dr. Vijai S. Shankar
© Copyright V. S. Shankar 2018
Editor’s Note:
The enlightened, with their deep understanding of the process of evolution in which human beings are striving to know and understand more and more of the world in which they live, are revealing the intelligence of life present in all that is commonly seen, touched, heard, tasted, smelt and, indeed, thought. Our understanding of what is gradually matures as the illusion of what is not is revealed in these articles.
Julian Capper, UK.
German Translator’s Note:
That man is not the doer is understood by understanding that man is not the eater. Eating happened instinctively to primitive man long before, he or she even tasted or smelled the food. Thoughts of taste and smell evolved in the mind and so too the thought “I eat, what I like.” What a clear explanation of the evolution of mind provided by Dr. Shankar in this article “Birth of Identification”! Simple examples of daily life, if deeply pondered about, reveal the highest clarity which permeates the daily illusion that man appears as the doer whereas he or she is not.
Marcus Stegmaier, Germany.