Sthoola, Sookshma, Shoonya, Shiva.

Sadhguru speaks:::::   In yoga we see it this way; existence is like this, there is something called as 'Sthoola', 'Sookshma', 'Shoonya', 'Shiva'.

'Sthoola' means the gross existence, physicality is sthoola. Everything that you can see, everything that you can sense through five sense organs, everything that you can see, smell, taste, hear and touch is considered sthoola. This can be analyzed with your intellect and understood and grasped. And this is always made of, as we know today of 'anu' or 'atoms' because it's physical in nature. ... building block of existence is an atom and if it's made of an atom, once enough number of atoms are there we can touch it, we can smell it, we can taste it, we can see it if it becomes big enough, initially in a microscope, after that with our bare eyes we could see it.

But if it goes beyond the perception of the five senses but still it is physical in nature, we call it 'Sookshma'.So when you enter into Sookshma, it is still physical but you are not able to grasp it; do what you want you cannot grasp it through five senses nor can you analyze it through your intellect, that dimension if we approach it, we call it 'Vishesha gnan' or 'Vishesha gnana,' that means an extra-ordinary knowledge.

Gyan or gnana means knowledge, Vishesh gnan is extra-ordinary or significant knowledge. So Visheshgnan is referred to as 'Vigyan'. The word Vigyan is being very loosely used today but essentially it means this -- those dimensions which cannot be perceived through five senses, if you perceive them, that is Vigyan.

So today science is entering those spaces because never, ever is anybody going to see... a Higgs boson. They are only going to see its footprint. Even now they only saw the footprint; they did not see a Higgs boson. But because they see the footprint, they believe he is there. Somebody has gone by, they left the footprints. We have not seen the man but we know it's gone by. We go into the forest, we see the pugmarks and we say, 'Okay there is a tiger.' We haven't seen the tiger. In fact in a tropical forest it's very difficult to see a tiger but we will see pugmarks here and there. Just like that they saw the footprint. So they are entering vishesh gyan.

If you go further it will become 'Shoonya' that means absolute emptiness. There your intellect will be completely useless, your senses will be completely useless because there is no physicality. Where there is no physicality your sense organs and intellect will become absolutely redundant. 

If you go beyond shoonya there is something that we refer to as Shi-va. When I say Shiva don't imagine that calendar man from Shivakasi. Shi-va means 'that which is not'. If you touch 'that which is not' -- we have always seen it is not physical in nature. It is not physical in nature means it does not exist but it is opaque. How can that be? It is not in the realm of your logical mind. 

Today modern science believes the whole existence has to oblige to human logic which is a very limited way of approaching life. The whole existence will not oblige to human logic. You think you can fit the whole existence into your head. No, no, your head fits into the existence, the existence will not fit into your head. Your logic can analyze the physicality of the existence. Once you cross the physical dimension your logic is completely out of its realm……