A: No sir, it is not. The awakening of intelligence is not sui generis.
J: You cannot bypass the intellect. We do not know how the process began, but
we can end it.
K: From the unitary cell until man appeared, it moves on.
A: The biologist does not go beyond manifestation. To assume it is wrong.
K: There is ignorance, and there is also perception, sensation.
A: Saṃskāra is that which is ‘put together’.
K: Put together in time, which means evolution.
A: Then you come to the next point, vijñāna, which is consciousness.
K: Is consciousness different from saṃskāra? That which has been put together
is consciousness.
A: No sir, it is the matrix. Within that matrix there is your consciousness, my
consciousness.
K: Let us find out.
A: The matrix is common to all of us.
K: Saṃskāra, you say, means something put together.
A: Literally it means ‘tendencies’.
K: I am asking: What is consciousness? Consciousness is made up of its content.
Without the content, is there consciousness at all? The content of consciousness
is consciousness; the content has been accumulating for centuries.
A: Is content all or is it a segment of consciousness?
K: I see that all my conditioning makes for consciousness.
A: Man has existed for many, many years. Before his consciousness came into
being, the matrix was already there.
K: Thought began with the unitary cell. Man has lived for more than thirty-five
thousand years; during that time he has collected all kinds of experiences. All
that is consciousness.