Comes from the Sanskrit root “bhid”, to split, break, divide, separate. It is a kind of past participle and then means split, broken, divided, different, other than.

This notion denotes the human condition of living through ignorance in a chronic sense of separateness, cut off from the rest. A kind of indefinable loss, which most people are familiar with. When in fact we are full, infinite consciousness. Because a person feels this existentially, the underlying human motivation is a pursuit of freedom. What is this pursuit of freedom? To be free from the feeling of being cut off (abhinna), or from falling short.

If we think about it, it is completely illogical that consciousness, your inherently subtle being, would stop at the edges of your body, at the skin, nails or hair. Just as space pervades everything, and space is a manifestation of consciousness, so consciousness permeates that which you are, everything you can conceive, the inner world, the outer world, etc. Again the crux is: Seeing yourself as consciousness.