This article describes the conscious entities who are behind the creation. They are called deities or deva. They are the personalities of the universal consciousness or they are the personalities of the Vedas.

1. Veda and Deva
Devas the creating creatures
(The words in italics are the Sanskrit words. These words can
be read in the Sanskrit English dictionary by Sir Monier
Williams, available in Internet at <http://www.sanskrit-
lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/> The Sanskrit words in italics
are in ‘Itrans’ version.)
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We on this earth live on things which are different from us. We
live in a world where every thing we know is different from us.
Still we have to dwell on them. The sun, the water, the earth,
the air, the food, every thing is a different entity, different from
us, though we get life from all of them. We are at the receiving
end. We get what is already there in the creation and achieve
the satisfaction. We run after things because we do not have it
in us. What we know is that somehow, by some means every
thing has been created here for our survival. We are slightly
better than what we were on the first day of our life lying in
mother's arms. We still have continued to live at the mercy of
the mother nature without knowing why she is so bountiful. We
do not care to know, thinking the world as inert and inanimate.
We are half awake, dreaming creatures, and extremely limited.
Since we are unaware of our origin and conscious aspect,
naturally, we fail to recognize that the world we live is full of
consciousness.

2. Rishis (seers) have taught us that as we learn to know our
own conscious state we also start realizing that every thing
inside and outside is also conscious. Inertness is a form of
consciousness. If you get fixed in a thought or a state for a
longer while, you become as if inert or frozen with that
thought or state. Inert or inanimate object is something like
that. But actually you are always changing, dynamic and lively.
Similarly every inert entity is a part of dynamic, live
consciousness. Similarly, you, we and everything all are part of
Great Consciousness, unbound, unhindered, self-
revealing, all-accomplished. The water which you see outside
is existing in you as coolness, as sense of satisfaction, as
fulfillment. It just not quenches your thirst, it is the basic seat
of accomplishment in you! In your inside, you feel the
coolness, cleanliness of water, feel the satisfaction to your
thirst. These are all forms of your consciousness in you when
you get associated with water. Similarly in other human
being also the feelings of water are similar. Again the feelings
of water in an aquatic animal could be somewhat different. It is
the same consciousness/universal personality "Water" who is
there everywhere, in our inside, and outside. This is the Water
Goddess, a conscious universal personality. She not only
quenches your thirst when you drink water, she is in you as the
sense of your "satisfaction", "accomplishment", as feeling of
"serenity". Whenever any of your desire is fulfilled, quenched,
whenever you get satisfied, it is because of HER presence in
you.
In Sanskrit water is termed as "ap". The Sanskrit word ‘aap’
"aapti" meaning, "achievement", "fulfillment", is derived from
the word "ap". Thus this is how the water is in the divine plane.
Beyond every entity in the physical plane there is a plane of
divinity, there are deities.

3. Similar is the "Air" the deity of "Touch"("sparsha" in Sanskrit).
Air in the Vedas is also known as "sUtratmaa", (sUtra=Thread)
+ (atmaa=Soul). He is the god who links every one, every body.
In you, this inner air, your feelings, are linked. Your whole
body is linked by the network of nerves, through which the life
/air flows as feelings. You get linked by the phenomenon
called "touch". You get in "touch" with some thing, some one,
you get connected. The Air, the God of touch is always
touching all of us! In you "he" is as touch in your skin, in your
lips! In you He is your "air", your "traits", your "sensitivity". The
air connects the sky (heaven) with the earth. Air called "vaayu"
in Sanskrit, is the god of yajur Veda.
yajur means “join”. The root word ‘yaj’ means ‘to sacrifice’ and
also to ‘join’. We sacrifice something to join with another
thing. We sacrifice mortality to join with the eternity. The word
"vaayu" is connected with the word "vaya" meaning "weaver".
Air, or any substance in gaseous phase, immediately spreads
every where if it gets into a container, as if it
immediately establishes a network of connection inside the
container. Its because of the inner air, our limbs are taut, not
slacked and the whole body is in unison and synchronized. If
the air/life leaves the body, it remains no longer taut. The
process of breathing in and breathing out is actually the
continuous communication or touching happening between
inside and the outside, which is the process of living. This is
why in Sanskrit, life or life span is called "aayu" which is the
inner air. Out side air is called "vaayu".
Thus, every entity can be identified with the gods, deities, the
universal personality, from whom we are deriving our entity,
life, existence. It is a conscious, living and loving system to
which we all belong. The manifestation of absolute One, from

4. which every thing is created, shows certain structured steps,
strata. We are also from the absolute "One". The deities, the
gods are in the higher plane, higher strata of this revelation.
There is no "want" in the plane of deities or in divinity.
There the revelation, manifestation happens spontaneously out
of joy. As the sun radiates spontaneously and the life is
sprouting in the earth, so is the plane of divinity through
whose revelation, radiation, the life is churning out every where
in innumerable, unimaginable forms. We are getting the world,
getting the sound, touch, taste, the air, the earth, the smell.....,
all the varieties through the plane of divinity. This plane
radiates, donates. So the world of deities, called, "div", as well
as "dyu", meaning 'radiating", "secreting", "divine", ‘heaven’ etc.
There nothing ends, gets exhausted. In our plane things
terminate. We are at the receiving end; we live in planets called
"graha" in Sanskrit. The word "graha" is connected with the
word "grahaNa" means act of receiving. If you are looking for
unending joy, unending life, unending vision, unending vitality
and thus everything unending, then it is here. The road to it is
inside, where the God of all the Gods is in you as your own
"inner self"(aatman) and is active in you as your Consciousness,
life, praaNa. You, the whole world, all the deities are in
Consciousness, are forms of Consciousness. Any thing you
know is a form of your "knowledge", "feeling", form of the
"universal consciousness". This act of reading this article is
also like that. It is happening there inside you, which is also
the core of the universe.
{This is written from the teachings received from the seers
Shri. Bijoykrishna Chattopadhaya (1875-1945), and his
principle disciple Shri Tridibnath Bandopadhaya(1923-1994).
This article was earlier published in Scribd.------Debkumar
Lahiri

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