Krishna is beyond perishable and imperishable.
yo mām evam asammūḍho jānāti puruṣottamam sa sarva-vidbhajati mām sarvabhāvena bhārata
Whoever knows Me as the supreme without a doubt, is to be understood as the knower of everything and he worships Me with all his being, O son of Bhārata
Krishna is the supreme energy who causes us to move.
iti guhyatamaṁ śāstram idam uktaṁ mayānagha etad buddhvā buddhimān syāt kṛtakṛtyaśca bhārata
This is the most confidential teaching disclosed by Me, O Sinless One, and whoever knows this will become wise and his actions will bear fruit
Everyone merges into the collective consciousness, the space of oneness, Advaita.
Kṛṣṇa says that beyond these two aspects of puruṣa, the perishable body-mind energy and the imperishable spirit energy, there lies another level of energy that is the Supreme puruṣa. He goes on to say that He is that Supreme puruṣa, Puruṣottama. Puruṣa is the energy that pervades us. Puruṣottama is the energy that pervades the entire Universe. Puruṣottama in that sense is no different from Parāśakti, the cosmic energy. It is only a play of words to separate Puruṣa as male and śakti as female, while describing the ultimate Cosmic Consciousness
All-pervading Energy Behind Life The Universe is imperishable. The energy behind the Universe is imperishable. Kṛṣṇa says that He is that energy, the Puruṣottama, that drives the Universe eternally. He is Puruṣa, the energy, and Prakṛti, the matter. Without Him, nothing moves. We see Puruṣottama in different ways, depending upon our upbringing and capabilities. Now, Kṛṣṇa presents the great truths about His true representation as the collective consciousness, the Supreme Self.
All our minds are not individually separated pieces of the Universe. They are all one and the same. All our minds are interlinked. Not only interlinked, they directly affect each other. This is what I call collective consciousness. Anything we think affects people around us. Not only are those near us touched by our thoughts, so is everyone living on planet Earth. Listen. We are not individual islands, separated from each other and uninfluenced by each other. Only one truth called collective consciousness links all of us
Not only at the mental level, even at the deeper level of consciousness, the deeper we go, the deeper we are connected. In Existence, there is no such thing as a separate individual identity. Once we know this truth, we will go beyond pain, suffering, depression and disease. Understand that as long as we hold onto the concept of individual consciousness, we will be continuously suffering, physically or mentally or on the being level. Why do we continuously resist Nature? Whatever Nature offers, we resist. When the weather is cold, we resist. We think we are different from Existence. I never thought that I was different from the atmosphere, never had the feeling of separation from Nature. It is only when we think that we are different from the atmosphere, from the air around us that we resist it. You see, we are a part of the Whole. If we fall in tune with the Whole, the Whole behaves as a friend.
The moment we think, discriminate or behave with the Whole in the opposite way, it acts like an enemy. Be very clear, the Whole is not here to kill or destroy us. An example is what happens when a person dies of drowning. The dead body floats. The dead body is heavier than water. Yet, it floats. But, a living body that is lighter than water, does not float. It drowns. Why is this so? As long as we are living, we are unable to relate with water. Our ego prevents that. Our mind prevents that. In the dead body, there is no mind and no ego. It is the mind and ego that causes our heaviness. When we are in completion with the collective consciousness, when we become a part of collective consciousness, Nature is our friend
When we think that we are different from Nature, as long as we think that we are an individual consciousness, Nature protests against us. If we disappear into the collective consciousness, we are protected and taken care of. We attain complete success, not only socially and economically, but we experience it as well. It will be a feeling of fulfillment, an experience of complete completion. We don't realize that merging with the collective consciousness will liberate us in totality. We resist and hold on to ourselves. As long as we do not disappear into the collective consciousness, we continuously create hell for ourselves and for others.
At the ultimate level, at the spiritual level, the moment we understand that we are deeply connected, totally connected to the whole group, to the whole Universe, not only do we experience bliss, but we really live, opening many dimensions of our being. Right now we are stressed out and disturbed continuously. With our separate body-mind, we need to think too much, we need to try too hard to enjoy life. If we disappear into collective consciousness, we open many dimensions, many possibilities
bodies! If the multitudes of bodies increase, so does the joy, the bliss. This is our experience when we realize we are a part of the collective consciousness.
When we experience that we are boundaryless consciousness, we experience infinity. It is difficult to imagine. When we experience the feeling of non-duality, Advaita or collective consciousness, when we experience the bliss of collective consciousness, we forget differences of name, wealth, social status and prestige; whatever we think of ourselves disappears. The truth of who we are is revealed.
Life is not restricted to inanimate forms. Life is happening in everything; may be in a frequency where it is not realized, recognized by you. But, everything has life. Learn to complete with everything! The state of completion is the best way to prepare yourself for life; and completion is the best way to prepare for death. For anything, just the completion! When we complete with everything, animate and inanimate, we experience the space of non-duality, Advaita, where each one is infinitely powerful and infinitely intelligent.
Completion should be carried till we become enlightened. Understand, till we feel we are one with the space of Nithyānando'ham (I am THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, Eternal Bliss); till we experience the space of Nityānando'ham. Kṛṣṇa declares, 'whoever knows Me as the Supreme, Puruṣottama, without a doubt, is to be understood as the knower of everything, and worships Me with all his being.' The difference between the puruṣa, self and the Puruṣottama, Self, the difference between the perishable and the imperishable, are for the 'deluded' and 'confused' as Kṛṣṇa says. Once one has the awareness of collective consciousness, he becomes the knower of everything. Everyone merges into the collective consciousness, the space of oneness, Advaita.
The wave thinks that it is separate from the ocean. It does not realize that it comes from the ocean and goes back to the ocean, that it is the ocean. Just as the wave is part of the ocean, we are part of Existence. How can we attain or reach Puruṣottama, when we are already a part of Him? We can only gain awareness that we are a part of Him This is the profound secret teaching of Kṛṣṇa. In this chapter, Kṛṣṇa becomes the ultimate Master. What is the difference between a Master and a teacher? A teacher knows intellectually; a Master knows experientially. A Master has experienced what he is speaking, the truth. The Master never allows anyone to get stuck with ordinary experiences. Even though we call it a spiritual experience, it is only when we stop experiencing anything that we enter into a real spiritual experience. Only in such an experience, the Experiencer, the Experienced and the Experience, disappear into one; all three merge into the experience.
Only 'we' remain, even the word 'we' can't be used since there is no other, all boundaries are lost! Unless that experience of 'Tat Tvam Asi, That Are Thou,' happens, unless the experience of 'Nithyānandoham, I Am THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM,' happens, the Master never rests. The Master is the ultimate Master surgeon who removes the ego at all levels, the ordinary or the spiritual. People have spiritual ego when they have a 'holier than thou' attitude. The Master will never allow us to be stuck in that area. He pushes us forward until we experience the Ultimate. The more we allow His surgery, the more we realize the Truth. A few people run away from the operating table during surgery; that's dangerous. Before surrendering, do all the checking, verifying, window-shopping. But once you surrender, allow Him to work on you.