You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

The Veil of the Concept of the Gunas / 113
densation into activity, and all of that, and this
primal force were made of the SAME underlying
SUBSTANCE, including the one that was aware
of it, then . . . ?
Student: Somehow, it’s all ONE SUBSTANCE.
Wolinsky: Now this concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept called condensation
and activity, if, the concept called “my” consciousness,
the concept called I am, the concept
called this condensation process coming out into
activity—if all of these were just concepts made
of the same substance and had nothing to do
with anything, including the one that was aware
of it, then . . . ?
Student: WOW, I have a new toy, it was so beautiful to
think about this.
Wolinsky: If the concept called a new toy, and this concept
called, condensation, activity, process, and the
consciousness that was aware of this were all made
of the same substance, which had nothing to do
with anything, then . . . ?
Student: It is like there is an aliveness!!
Wolinsky: If the concept called “my” consciousness, which
believes in the concept of I am, which believed
in the concept called condensing process, which
becomes activity, which believed in the concept
called alive and not alive or sadness and not
sadness—if it believed all of that, what could this
concept called “my” consciousness do to itself?
Student: It could create a game.
Wolinsky: What kind of game would it create?