The Collapse of the Single Point of View

 

Cartwheel and its companion galaxies  by the James Webb Space Telescope — one field, countless perspectives.

(from lecture of Guruji at Andhra University on 5th of April 1988):

Consider an elephant walking along a road and a series of ants, a kilometer long, observing it. In each of the ants’ eyes, a different sized and a different angled projection of the elephant is seen.

For the ant “A”, elephant looks like a point head-on. And as we approach the ant “B”, the elephant increases in size to that of a mountain, changing its aspect angle.

If there is a universal ant, whom we shall call an “Aunt” (for fun), it sees the elephant, as not one elephant of a fixed size, but as many elephants of varying sizes and aspects, moving very rhythmically, in an orchestrated pattern.

Our Aunt will see as many elephants as there are ants who are observing it.

This is an example of spatial transcendence; the previous example of the book reflects a time transcendence.

We can have transcendence in space (see from all points of space), we can have transcendence in time (see from all points of time), and we can have any degree of combination of both.

What we find in the Bhagavad Gītā — Viśvarūpa-sandarśana — is a mixture of both.

A little of the future is shown (the soldiers entering the mouths of Virāṭa and dying), and the manifold vision of space transcendence, which terrifies Arjuna. It is so terrifying, in fact, that he wants to be spared the vision.

The transcendental experience is explosive. It is like a bomb placed inside your heart, and you explode to the limits of galaxies.

You expand your boundaries to encompass all, without limitation.

Suddenly you see everything, know everything.

You may choose to be that way, but if you come back to be a limited being, you know only a part and you cannot communicate that experience to anyone else.

For who else is there to communicate?

You are all.

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Vira Chandra: Guruji is saying:

Every creature sees reality from its own position.

Not metaphorically.
Literally.

Your location, body, nervous system, and mind shape what the universe looks like to you.

So there is no single fixed “picture of reality” that belongs to one observer.

What we call “the world” is always a perspective.

If awareness were not tied to one body, one location, one moment in time, it would not see one object.

It would see all versions at once.

Not one elephant.

But every possible elephant, from every angle, simultaneously.

That is what he calls transcendence.

Not floating in the sky.
Not visions for entertainment.
But freedom from being locked into one point of view.

Space-transcendence:
Seeing from all places.

Time-transcendence:
Seeing past, present, and future as one movement.

When both happen together, identity as a small observer collapses.

This is why such experiences feel overwhelming.

The nervous system is designed for narrow bandwidth.

Infinity is not narrow.

So when boundaries loosen, the system feels like it is exploding.

Not because something supernatural is attacking.

But because the idea of “I am only this body” cannot survive.

Guruji’s key point:

The ultimate experience is not about collecting information.

It is about losing the false center.

When there is no separate “me”, there is no “other” to speak to.

No witness apart from what is witnessed.

Only Being.

Only Awareness.

Only This.

Quietly.

That is why the deepest realization is not something you can explain.

Not because it is mystical.

But because language requires two.

And here, there is only one.