We have reached the threshold of the highest level of human development, which in Maharishi’s model, he calls Unity Consciousness, a state of being that corresponds in every way with our thesis that Consciousness is all there is.

In Vedic Science, Unity Consciousness is indicated by several time-honored, classic sayings. Perhaps the most famous is, “I am That, thou art That, all this is That, That alone is,” where “That,” of course, is Consciousness. And “this” is the entirety of the relative creation, now seen in its true nature as That. Another great saying is aham Brahmasmi, “I am Brahman,” a word best translated as “the Totality,” the wholeness of all that is, Absolute Pure Being/Consciousness along with all existent and possible relative values. This is expressed in the Chhandogya Upanishad as sarvam khalvidam Brahm, “all this is Brahman, the Totality.”

In Unity Consciousness, the individual perceives everything in terms of wholeness. All is truly One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness in motion.

In the development of higher states of Consciousness in an individual, all three “components” of what truly undifferentiated Consciousness is—Observer, Process of Observation, and Observed—steadily evolve toward the ultimate level that we discussed early in the book—infinite, unbroken, primordial Consciousness, or Singularity. The first of these three components to reach this supreme level is the most intimate part of our Self, the perception of our own ego, the Observer. The supreme level of observerhood is attained by the repeated experience of Pure Consciousness during transcending, and the gradual stabilization of that unbounded awareness in Cosmic Consciousness.