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1 Jiva and Ajiva These two words mean, 'Animate and Inanimate' and also 'Sentient and Insentient'. The modern science has only found out that 'Matter and Energy' are mutually convertible, one form into the other. The scientist discovered to their amazement that, 'Matter is the grossest form of Energy' and 'Energy is the subtlest form of Matter'! Whereas, the Vedic SEER of yore, asserted out of realization that the Absolute noumenal substratum apart from creating matter and energy, IT ingrains in each and every aspect of creation, ITS essential quality of CONSCIOUSNESS (Chaitanya). The teeming manifestations are pulsating with consciousness. Hence, the SEER wherever he glimpses, he only senses Consciousness in varying intensity. He found to his great amusement that the transient forms are emerging and dissolving as an eternal cosmic play of the Absolute source, CHAITANYA!

Consciousnesses in varying intensity as SEEN by the Vedic SEER, are three types. They are 'Satva, Rajas and Tamas'. These three are called as 'Guna' (Quality). The qualities that are represented by these three words are: 'Satva'= Balance, Peace, Fullness, Subtle, Stability. 'Rajas'= Movement, Drive, Unrestrained, Engulfing, Assertive, Resplendent. 'Tamas'= Passive, Inert, Stagnate, Immobility, Sloth, Gross. All aspects of creation are composed of these ranges of qualities in infinite combinations. Even Gods and Goddess are not free from qualitative attributes! Thus, from the lowest of low, to the highest-ranking manifestation, each is ingrained in some combination, the above discussed qualities of CONSCIOUSNESS (Chaitanya). Thus in the Vedic perception, even in a piece of wood and a stone, leave alone plants and animals, the divinity of the Absolute is seen!
The deep sense of togetherness, which is brimming in a realized human being, can only be attributed to such an organic state of EXISTENCE!
As everything in the Cosmic-universe is essentially containing Consciousness, however ignorant (Non-conscious) presently they may be, realization of TRUTH is an inescapable possibility, for all and everything! This is the path, Vedanta shows to humankind.