The Real and the Unreal - It is all about WILL- I- AM!

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much Michael for those few lines from William

Shakespeare's Macbeth.

 

i guess it is time for us to move from some 'Unreal' philosophy to

the real world of poetry , the world of Imagination . You started

with William Shakespeare , let me bring to this forum the words of

another Great POet William Blake ( our benji's fabvorite) !

 

"This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity; it is the divine

bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the Vegetated

body.

 

This World of Imagination is Infinite & Eternal, whereas the world of

Generation or Vegetation, is Finite & Temporal.

 

 

There Exists in that Eternal World the Permanent Realities of Every

Thing which we see reflected in this Vegetable Glass of Nature.

 

 

All Things are comprehended in the Eternal Forms in the divine body

of the Savior, the True Vine of Eternity, The Human Imagination ..."

 

and guess what ? folks?

 

when all "imagination" ceases we will be in "NIRVIKALPA Samadhi" (

where there is no kalpana or imagination)

 

Descartes- I think therefore I am

 

Adi Sankara - I am therefore I think

 

Really I am or am I really?

 

enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Namaste Adiji,

>let me bring to this forum the words of

>another Great POet William Blake (our benji's fabvorite)

 

I don't know about favorite...

 

He is an interesting example of how some kind of 'mystical'

consciousness can arise spontaneously in the most unexpected places.

 

Some of what he says could be interpreted as Advaitic.

 

 

>"This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity; it is the divine

>bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the Vegetated body.

>This World of Imagination is Infinite & Eternal, whereas the world of

>Generation or Vegetation, is Finite & Temporal.

>There Exists in that Eternal World the Permanent Realities of Every

>Thing which we see reflected in this Vegetable Glass of Nature.

>All Things are comprehended in the Eternal Forms in the divine body

>of the Savior, the True Vine of Eternity, The Human Imagination ..."

 

 

Actually, this sounds more like Plato with some Christianity grafted on.

 

Similar to Advaita in some respects, but with unnecessary and

implausible complications.

 

In one way or another, Shankara, Plato and Blake are realizing the

primacy of consciousness over the apparently external, with varying

degrees of clarity, depending on prior conceptual contamination.

 

Thank you for this interesting quote from Blake.

I had not seen it.

 

Hari Om!

Benjamin