Conscious (ness) is an ‘entity’ quite apart from Existence (Being). Similarly life too is a local term, whose scope is also local. As water is home (local) to fish, air is home to living beings on earth. The conscious too is a local element, distinct in quality in each circle of life. As cosmos is composed of billions of worlds and galaxies—with their countless bodies—each world has its distinct ‘conscious’ which manifests in varying shapes and forms, in as many categories of life and material bodies, as is compatible with the local atmospheric conditions. That is, each world or circle of ‘consciousness’ like atmosphere, supports its peculiar life-line. That is the reason; life in other planets would not be the same, as on earth, as the conscious which pervades the earths’ atmosphere is ‘special’ to its conditions and needs only!
Conscious is prevalent in living as well as in the inert. Therefore each and every element in Nature is conscious and those ‘elements’ which came into being later—as the result of their permutations and transmutation—like the seemingly inert mass of mountains etc., are conscious too. The inert mass too is subject to change—thus adhering to the three qualities of Nature—creation-sustenance-dissolution. Energy which is at the base of these ‘projections’ (creations) would produce only the material manifestation, even if there had been no proviso of ‘Being’ in Nature: But in such condition, the scenario of the evolution would have been different! There would be robots roaming about on earth! Even now, given all the benefits of science, scientists can produce robots and even human clones possessing ‘data-fed-intelligence’. But they will never be able to replicate life, i.e.—the original source of life. They may be able to produce amoeba or even replicate Original-Seed, but human intelligence will never be able to produce the One-Being, in whom are compressed all elements of Nature—powers of C-S-D (creation-sustenance-dissolution) which go with it. That “Being” in human form is Omnipresent-Omnipotent-Omniscient (the three O’s).
The ultimate in human intelligence is: Intelligence itself. The Intelligence that creates sustains and annihilates the Nature. Finding and replicating the Original-Seed, the original cause of creation, is the ultimate human quest.
The quest of human mind is not limited to produce and replicate the original amoeba, which ushered biological evolution on earth; but the life-current itself which puts life in that amoeba!
The quest of man would be over when he finds answer to these riddles!
His hour of glory would come when he creates a replicate of Nature!
His self’s’ journey of perfection would have been attained, when he controls Nature by his “Will” (Intelligence), not through the instruments of his creations!
Evolvement of individual intelligence to Cosmic-Intelligence is the journey which every mind aspires. Human mind is a dreamer and is possessed with the powerful tool of imagination. However his mind is not equipped to find answers to fundamental questions (Cause) of C-S-D. To hide this ignorance, the mind finds an easy escape route; by filling those gaps by ‘imagination and fantasizing’. It is with power of dreaming and imagination, that man has been able to set foot on moon and probe Mars and Jupiter!