We are each in our own world. This should be enough if we leave the matter as subjective. But objectively, there is just this world that we are in, which we know to be existing, which is where we are in a real and practical sense. In the yogic lore, there is known to be a place called Gyanganj. Some other names by which this place goes by are Shangri La, Shambala, and Siddhashrama. It is said that this place exists somewhere around Kailash in Tibet but maintains a temperate climate throughout the year. In the same breath I have to admit that this is not a physical location on the map. It is known to be a mystical place where beings who have arrived at a certain place within themselves reside to meet and expend their self. Such a world sounds very exciting and compelling, even if a folktale. Whether this is or isn’t is not what we are looking to argue here, but attempt at bringing a perspective forward which is very much a thought at some point if one is willing to see and admit the bounty of ignorance, whether one world or many.

Each creature is in a world that is completely theirs. As human beings, we can make societies, nurture cultures, philosophize belief systems, and also wander alone in a world of our own. If we were to see the world as it is, it is simple and fairly obvious that the existence that we are is happening as always and forever through our own eyes, ears, touch, taste, and breath. Breathing in and out is a perpetual life and death, where the new is born and the old is made to die, as is the intention in the design of nature. These senses bring a physical sense of the existence that is, that you are feeling, tasting, seeing, hearing and breathing. And therefore, there is cognition of the fact that there is a consciousness that is life, the basis to all this. Our awareness of how everything will go on as it is without you and me in what we can say is the world, is testimony to the truth that there is something underlying which is not needing to make itself heard, seen, tasted, felt, or smelt for its presence to be known. So, if the senses were to die, as they certainly would with the body, whatever is the remaining, is also the primary principle behind everything else. The source of this body, and of everything else that is known and unknown, is bound to be the same.

The first principle to what we are, and how we have been happening to be, and naturally how everything else that is beyond us has also happened to be, is not any ordinary thing. It is the ultimate, the absolute, beyond my words or any praise. Without speculating much, it has to be beyond time and space because it is after all the basis to our notion of time, that’s resulting in space. And it is it, as us perceiving light, enamored by its speed and properties. It is it, as us observing the sky, spectating the illusion of blue in the sky. It is it, as us reasoning with logic the state of the human being. It is it, as us coming to terms with the boundlessness of emptiness, outpouring in love, poetry, perception and mysticism. It is in itself beyond worlds and words. Definitely its capability to imagine a world like Gyanganj is like a beautifully woven but puny thought. Just like the ease with which a dream is crafted into an intricate reality by the dreamer living it. Just like the potency with which the ego is real to one empowering its experience. Just like the world one may be living in, because it is after all a uniquely individual experience of the same first principle enabling it. Consciousness enabling itself – how consciously is the question, which can be left unanswered for exploratory purposes.

Yuvraj Goswami is the author of #NoPointTalking, available on Amazon in January 2019. Excerpts from the book can be found on www.elefemel.com