NikolaiI
08-14-2009, 04:04 PM
People nowadays are resistant to the idea of God. They are resistant to the idea that one can see God. But why would it be incredible to see God? There is nowhere one needs to go to see God, for God is within. Neither is there any one particular way for everyone to see God. What is good for one is not good for another.
Atheists do not see God, and they call Him false and illogical. Yet a true vision of God - which is as valuable as it is rare - satisfies the intelligence and logic more perfectly than any other knowledge. It is simply beyond the senses, and beyond "our" comprehension. One places a great sumbling block before oneself to disregard as false anything which one currently does not comprehend - anything mystical, or spiritual, which others speak of but one has no experience of. Because this position is absurd: "Nothing beyond my comprehension is real." In other words, "I comprehend everything." It leads to the greatest ignorance.
So back to the source - Atman. We are trying to be free, because actually we do not know our full potential. Greater than all desires is the bliss and peace of Atman. Being one with the source is the highest achievement, the final state. It also means being one with the universe. We are a reflection of the whole universe. Thus we are equal to the whole, we are "the works." We are everything on Earth, and everything in the cosmos.
Everything comes from the source, from Atman, which is also; Buddha, Christ, Brahman. Atman is the infinite. It can be understood as the highest reality. There are infinite levels of existence, and Atman is the source of them all. Because it is the source of them all, it is all of them.
So you are not this little body, actually your body is the whole universe. It never dies until the universe quits. Your cells are millions of Gods. Within even your very cells - within each individual cell - is Atman. It alone is real.
Everything is nothing. Form is emptiness. But the nature of emptiness is Atman, formless as infinite, with form also as the infinite, but with a personal form. Atman with and without form are the same. Without form it is an impersonal, infinite source. With form it is the Pure, the Perfect, the Ever Blessed One - the Ancient One, the Highest of the High, and the ever youthful, omniscient, infinitely beautiful Sage that is Life - call you Him Rama, Buddha, or Christ.
The bottom line is that there is nothing that needs doing. There is no penance required to achieve peace, knowledge, truth. Sometimes we struggle, sometimes not - but who of us is enlightened, as in the sense that Buddha is enlightened, or enlightened in the highest sense, in divine consciousness?
Nothing needs to be done except to wake up, to become enlightened, through self-realization. There is a saying from ancient India that "God alone is real, all else is nothing." This is true. All is a dream except for the infinite peace, power, bliss, and knowledge which is God or Atman.
And yet though it seems blasphemous, that is the nature of all living beings. It's the highest truth. There are different levels of goodness, the highest is to be enlightened, as Christ and Buddha are. To be enlightened, to know divine consciousness, is possible, as our nature is potentially divine. And yet saying it doesn't mean anything. Fewer than one in a million have even glimpsed the divine consciousness - let alone have realized it through practice and works. Saying it doesn't mean anything - one must realize it through dedicating absolutely all of one's actions, thoughts, and words to the Divine. It is an extremely long process and very difficult. It is the narrowest path to the highest good.
But as for our limitations, our bondage, our suffering - it is all our own self-deception. We put our eyes before our hands and cry that it is dark. We are the universe ourselves. None is ever bound, nor ever dies. There is ultimately no reason to ever feel anxiety, because of a secret almost no one knows, that none are separate from their source.
But I must contradict myself infinitely. There is penance required. One must give up everything, let go of everything, to come closer to the Divine. One cannot have desire, if one wishes to see the Divine, because one's own desire prevents one from being an instrument to help fulfill the desire of the Divine.
Atheists do not see God, and they call Him false and illogical. Yet a true vision of God - which is as valuable as it is rare - satisfies the intelligence and logic more perfectly than any other knowledge. It is simply beyond the senses, and beyond "our" comprehension. One places a great sumbling block before oneself to disregard as false anything which one currently does not comprehend - anything mystical, or spiritual, which others speak of but one has no experience of. Because this position is absurd: "Nothing beyond my comprehension is real." In other words, "I comprehend everything." It leads to the greatest ignorance.
So back to the source - Atman. We are trying to be free, because actually we do not know our full potential. Greater than all desires is the bliss and peace of Atman. Being one with the source is the highest achievement, the final state. It also means being one with the universe. We are a reflection of the whole universe. Thus we are equal to the whole, we are "the works." We are everything on Earth, and everything in the cosmos.
Everything comes from the source, from Atman, which is also; Buddha, Christ, Brahman. Atman is the infinite. It can be understood as the highest reality. There are infinite levels of existence, and Atman is the source of them all. Because it is the source of them all, it is all of them.
So you are not this little body, actually your body is the whole universe. It never dies until the universe quits. Your cells are millions of Gods. Within even your very cells - within each individual cell - is Atman. It alone is real.
Everything is nothing. Form is emptiness. But the nature of emptiness is Atman, formless as infinite, with form also as the infinite, but with a personal form. Atman with and without form are the same. Without form it is an impersonal, infinite source. With form it is the Pure, the Perfect, the Ever Blessed One - the Ancient One, the Highest of the High, and the ever youthful, omniscient, infinitely beautiful Sage that is Life - call you Him Rama, Buddha, or Christ.
The bottom line is that there is nothing that needs doing. There is no penance required to achieve peace, knowledge, truth. Sometimes we struggle, sometimes not - but who of us is enlightened, as in the sense that Buddha is enlightened, or enlightened in the highest sense, in divine consciousness?
Nothing needs to be done except to wake up, to become enlightened, through self-realization. There is a saying from ancient India that "God alone is real, all else is nothing." This is true. All is a dream except for the infinite peace, power, bliss, and knowledge which is God or Atman.
And yet though it seems blasphemous, that is the nature of all living beings. It's the highest truth. There are different levels of goodness, the highest is to be enlightened, as Christ and Buddha are. To be enlightened, to know divine consciousness, is possible, as our nature is potentially divine. And yet saying it doesn't mean anything. Fewer than one in a million have even glimpsed the divine consciousness - let alone have realized it through practice and works. Saying it doesn't mean anything - one must realize it through dedicating absolutely all of one's actions, thoughts, and words to the Divine. It is an extremely long process and very difficult. It is the narrowest path to the highest good.
But as for our limitations, our bondage, our suffering - it is all our own self-deception. We put our eyes before our hands and cry that it is dark. We are the universe ourselves. None is ever bound, nor ever dies. There is ultimately no reason to ever feel anxiety, because of a secret almost no one knows, that none are separate from their source.
But I must contradict myself infinitely. There is penance required. One must give up everything, let go of everything, to come closer to the Divine. One cannot have desire, if one wishes to see the Divine, because one's own desire prevents one from being an instrument to help fulfill the desire of the Divine.