The self-generated complex wholeness of Life, has been ever unfolding its complexity, through the emergence of hundreds, if not thousands, of universes, with their own planets and solar systems etc. It is an ever expanding phenomenon. The manyness of the universes, has not mutilated the wholeness, as it has not damaged the complexity. All the universes, their solar systems, planets etc. are inter-related. They are organically related to one another.

Those who are acquainted with the science of ecology and the philosophy of environmentalism, should not find it difficult to grasp the inter-relatedness as the content of complexity. It is a fascinatingly rich phenomenon. And this ever expanding, ever unfolding complexity, is energy at the same time.Life is a perceptive sensitivity. It is an energy of Intelligence, with awareness contained and concealed in it. The ancient Indians called this perceptive sensitivity and the supreme energy of Intelligence -Vaishvik Chitti Shakti.

This cosmic energy of Intelligence -Vaishvik Chitti Shakti, is Swasamvedya, is self-aware at the same time. It is wholistically aware of the Allness, the Wholeness, the Manyness of Life including Itself. When we use the term seeing energy, we have implied the Cosmic Chitti Shakti, the Vaishvik Chitti Shakti, having the energy of awareness - all inclusive awareness. In the space of cosmos, the complexity of energies contained in the nature of Life, has shown us that energies are floating in space and constantly interacting upon one another, 'The Dance of Shiva' as one of the scientists has beautifully described it.

'The Tao of Physics' has also been another expression for the same.So when the energies interact, it seems that the interaction results in the solidification of the energies, which take the form of matter, material objects, which become visible. For the human race, they become tangible, accessible. Matter is nothing but solidified energy and solidification seems to be the result of incessant interaction of innumerable energies, with which the human race is not acquainted completely. So this matter, individuated into specific objects, is called 'seen energy'. In Sanskrit you might call it 'Drishyam Vyaktam', 'Drishya Vyakta Jagat'. So that is seen energy.

Matter is energy all the same and the same energy is contained in different objects, the material formations at different levels, in different ways. The energy contained in the earth, has its own methodology of functioning. The creative energies contained in the rivers and oceans have quite a different system of functioning and so on.Seeing Energy and Seen EnergySo there is the Chitti Shakti which has perceptivity. For perceptivity, there is the word Drashtutvam, specially used in the science of Yoga. Drashtutvam -perceptive sensitivity.

So Swasamvedyata -self awareness and then Drashyam -that which can be seen -which is visible -Vyaktam which has come into the focus of space and time, tangible to the senses of all the animals, including the human animal. So Life is energy, 'seeing energy' and 'seen energy' -Drashtutvam and Drashyam. So there is nothing like dead matter, inert matter. Only the energies are concealed from the human sight.

They express themselves only in their movement of creation.The word for Life in ancient Upanishads and Vedas is Chaitanyam. Life itself is called Chaitanyam. Please do see that the terms, Drashta and Drashya are not used. Drashtutvam 'seeing' and Drashyam 'the seen'. Why are we so cautious? Why don't we say 'seer and seen'? Because then the human mind imagines the seer to be an entity, having a particular identity.

The nature of the Wholeness, the nature of its all permeating characteristic, is ignored by us and we imagine that the Drashta -the seer is an entity, a permanent entity. But it is an impersonal energy of Awareness, call it Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent, if you like, but let us not freeze it into an idea of identity and entity.

The entityness or the identitiness comes in the solidified energy of matter. They are objects, they can be counted, they are distinguishable from one another.So the earth has a different identity than the rivers and the vegetable kingdom has quite a different characteristic and personality than the rivers and the earth. But even in these identities, there is a beauty - that they are changing their forms constantly.

The visible, the material, the manifest, is a flux of change. The forms change, whether of the human beings, whether of the animals or of the vegetable kingdom.