Does knowledge progress in moving from personal vision to impersonal vision?
Question, you mentioned that knowledge progresses In science and in spirituality From the visible To the invisible Just as By seeing the fruit fall That is a visible thing The invisible aspect of the law of gravity Is inferred Similarly, by seeing the visible Matter manifesting We can envision the invisible Creator who is behind it all So can we say that Just as we move from visible to invisible As we understand deeper Similarly We move from personal to impersonal As we deepen in our understanding Answer Actually It is not that The invisible and the impersonal Are necessarily similar Because The Whole idea is That We talk about invisible reality That is because of the limits of our sensory perception When we think about it A view which we cannot see Whereas When we talk about personal and impersonal The focus is not Primarily on our Limitations or our incapacities We are talking here about The nature of reality And If the deeper reality Is impersonal Then that raises the question that How does The personal Emerge from the impersonal Because There is In the observed world We see the personal features All of us are persons We also understand that there are impersonal forces So we see in the observed world There is personal and impersonal And we know that Everything that we see in the observed world Is coming from a higher truth And that truth we understand Is a higher reality So which is the source of everything So it should contain the characteristics The properties of everything So if it contains the properties, characteristics of everything Then it should contain both Personal and impersonal features If it contains only one of them Then that is not The complete understanding of the reality So Some people think that An impersonal understanding Is deeper than the personal understanding However Deeper than the impersonal understanding Is the transpersonal understanding Transpersonal means The transcendental personal understanding So yes We could say that we look at forms In this world And we are allured by the forms We look at personality and we are allured by the personality But we should go beyond them To something which is More universal And that is the impersonal understanding That is true But arriving at the impersonal understanding Doesn't give us a complete answer To the question of Why personality is present in this world Personality is present in this world Because there is personality In the transcendental reality And that's why we have The conception of absolute truth As both personal and impersonal And we understand the absolute truth As both personal and impersonal Then we understand that Actually That's how it is personal and impersonal In this world also Krishna does talk about The perceiving the universal Spiritual essence underlying everything As higher Than Rajasic or Tamasic knowledge Krishna says that one who sees Different people to be different Because The bodies are different and he considers their essential nature Is also different That is vision in the mode of passion When he says vision in the mode of goodness But we see the one individual Spirit In all living beings That is Knowledge in the mode of goodness But then Krishna also says that When one has attained this vision Of seeing oneness After attaining this vision of seeing oneness Then one goes to transcendence In 18.54 He further says that So he says That vision of seeing everything equally That is the vision in the mode of goodness That is actually When that vision becomes perfect One comes to the Brahma Bhuta platform So the Brahma Bhuta platform After one attains that platform Where there is equality towards events There is And there is equality towards people Then there is When one attains That is actually The clear progression in the Bhagavad Gita That we see the diversity of material nature So normally people talk about Unity in diversity Yes we should see But So much diversity but still we are united For example people say that India has so many different languages So many different Cultures But still we are one Indian country So we should see unity in diversity So from material diversity To unity at a deeper material level That is the progression from The We could say From passion to goodness But then the spiritual understanding is That there is not just Unity in diversity But there is also diversity in unity Diversity in unity means In the spiritual world There is unity in the sense that everything in the spiritual world Is spiritual Although everything in the spiritual world is spiritual Still there is a Variety within the spirituality Krishna is a person, we are persons And all of us are persons So all the devotees in the spiritual world are persons There is variety in the relationships So in this way From the logical and the spiritual perspective We can understand From the logical perspective That yes The impersonal is higher than the personal vision But that is with respect to Material personality and material impersonality But beyond these both The The conception that Material personality is higher doesn't explain Where does material personality come from The conception of personality Where does it come from in the material realm That comes from transcendence Where there is personality So from logical inference in this way From spiritual testimony Where the Oneness seeking impersonal vision Is considered to be in goodness And the personal seeing Vision at the spiritual level Is considered to be higher We can understand that We need to progress Not just from the personal to the impersonal But from the personal Ultimately to the trans-personal Where we understand Transcendental personality.