The constant factor or characteristic of the lokas (worlds that are
perceived through the senses) is change, variability and uncertainty. This is because they
are all products of the mind and the effect inherits the attributes of
the cause. But the one common factor that is a constant in all this perception is
'I': the subject that perceives.
If this I be known in truth, it is found
that it is not the mind but Pure Consciousness. That is then seen to be
the same unchanging substratum of all the worlds also.
Then all the
worlds are experienced as Pure Consciousness and the purified mind that sees this is
also Pure Consciousness. This common unchanging factor is the true I, it is Atma,
it is Brahman. The worlds are mere superimpositions on it, like ever
changing folds on a cloth that is being dusted. So embrace the
changefulness of the mind, firm in the conviction of its unreality, and
established in the conviction of the changeless Reality of the Self.
This is Yoga, jnAna, bhakti, or karma yoga.
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