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

210 / You Are Not
This, as mentioned earlier, reiterates that the void can
also be the withdrawal of consciousness and thus holds in a
(potential) seed form the impressions that will later manifest.
Moreover, then the “awarer” and “awared” are seen as THE
SAME SUBSTANCE; then they disappear, and that is grace.
In quantum physics, David Bohm discussed the implicit
or underlying order and the explicate order of names and
forms. Pratyabhijnahrdayam divides itself into several more
divisions.
However, these divisions that describe such a process are
all contingent upon an “awarer” being aware of an “awared.”
If there is no “awarer,” then there is no five-fold act.
In this way, like the Zen Koan; “If a tree falls in the
forest and there is nobody there to hear it, does it make a
sound?”
EnQUiRE
If there is no “awarer,” is there a five-fold act?
Prior to the emergence of the “awarer,” . . . are you?
“Pratyabhijnahrdayam lays the greatest stress on
the meditation of the five-fold act which is going on
constantly even in the individual.” (Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam,
p. 30)
In the Pratyabhijnahrdayam, the spanda is defined not in
terms of two parts (appearance—disappearance), but the term
is subdivided into five parts. It is the realization of these fivefold
parts or “acts” or consciousness, which when “viewed”
according to the Pratyabhijnahrdayam liberates “one” of their
effects. However, please recall that the “understanding” that
the “awarer,” too, is part of this five-fold act and is essential
for the “awarer” “apperceiving” Nirvana (extinction).
It is critical to note that the natural withdrawal process
holds impressions, and when it arises again, it conceals THAT