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

The Five-Fold Act of Consciousness / 211
SUBSTANCE. However, if the potential, which is a seed that
is held is “seen” as the same consciousness as the experient,
both disappear; this is grace.
This was often the case when “I” would meet someone
who knew who they were. “I” would approach them with a
problem. In “their” presence, the problem dissolved (grace).
However, because “I” was unaware that the “awarer” of the
problem and the problem were the SAME SUBSTANCE, the
problem would arise again.
In other words, the gap, space, or void is the subtlest form
(seed) of the I am and thought. And, in the void the thought
is concealed but not destroyed—merely withdrawn. This is
not grace (disappearance), but rather concealment. It is for
this reason, that “‘people’ in meditation go into the void or
gap,” but come out with the same problem.
GRACE iS DiSAppEARAnCE;
vOiD-GAp iS WiTHDRAWAl.
“Where, however, (when) contraction or limitation is
predominant, there occurs the knowership of the Void,
etc.” (Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam, p. 60)
The void, of course, has a knower of the void. It is the
knower of the void that arises along with the knowledge of
the void. It is, therefore, a contraction that brings forth the
arising of the knower of the void. Once the knower of the void
and the void are seen as THE SAME SUBSTANCE, then there
is neither a knower of the void or the void itself. In this way,
the void and its knower appear and disappear together.