Triputi - The Threefold Distinction of the One Presence

Mind is capable of producing a variety of emotions, all of which can be enquired into. In Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna says that all emotions can be made subject of spiritual enquiry.

An enquirer usually starts enquiring into three things–what is this world? Who am I? Who is God? Hindu dharma clearly says and proves, that all the three enquiries mean the same thing. Whether one enquires into the subject, or the object, or whether one enquires into God, all these enquiries are different and various in the initial level. But as one progresses, all of them converge into oneself.

One will introspect: “I become the thinker and thought becomes an outcome of my thinking process. The thinking process proceeds from me and rests on me. So, the thought outcome also will rest on me. So, there is nothing besides me, either as the thinker or as the thinking, or as the thought, the outcome. The three are seemingly different. In reality the content is the same!”

All the three are distinctions, given rise to by the inscrutable power of the inner eternal presence! They are only notional. So, the subject, the object, and the other, all these three are notions which the one inscrutable presence gives rise to. A seeker must go beyond the distinctions and reach the very source.

PR 19 Dec 2011