How Existence is Like a Dream Part Two

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Ananta Yoga Darshana - Chapter 26

How Existence is Like a Dream Part Two

 

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BLUE

Looking up we see the blue sky

below the mist......

Above the sky.......

Looking into the mind - Mist.........

Looking into love.........

A sky .....

In a clear sky there are no clouds.

With the leap of faith knowing pervades being.

Loving we Know peace......

Intellectualizing we see mist

Ghosts......Emptiness.........

Above Love.......Thus are we

able to let go of knowing.

Above.......sky

below.....Mist.......

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The blue sky signifies looking into the true NOW in which the world

has not appeared. The mist is the movement of Time and its non-

reality, the mind is clouded by emotion and confusion results.

 

If we look for clouds we see clouds; therefore visualize vast sky;

notice that it is projected like an image in a mirror. Did the

deliberate Willing actually create that image in your mind; or did

The Self become the sky and shine "AS" it making it appear in its'

own Being (in the Being of the Self) "AS" the mind like an image in a

mirror? (Remember the mind cannot be found in the absence of

thought). The Self became the Sky then it shone forth "AS" the

Consciousness – as the Sky.!

 

Quotes from Chapter Three of The Avadhuta Gita.

4. How shall I speak of desirelessness and desire?

How shall I speak of non-attachment and attachment?

How shall I speak of Him as devoid of substance

and insubstantiality?

I am the nectar of knowledge,

homogenous existence, like the sky.

 

6. It is neither gross nor subtle. It has neither

come nor gone. It is without beginning, middle and end.

It is neither high nor low.

I am truly declaring the highest reality -

I am the nectar of knowledge,

homogenous existence, like the sky.

So then "AS" the WILL, visualize or picture an inner-space as

described above and enter it as it by the realization that to

visualize the space You The Self, become it and appear as it shining

in The Self.... become non-formed and infinite. Om!

 

You will soon notice all that exists, exists within that infinite

space. However, what is not understood is the fact that what is

deliberately imagined by the imagination is not imaginary at all; it

is actually the Will picturing things.

 

One would think therefore that one is imagining this empty sky, or

imagining that all beings live in it, but this is not the case at

all, because the thing imagined is a thing IMAGED IN, or Projected IN

or ON something else. Where is that which is imagined, existing; if

not "IN" the ONE who imagines? It is therefore IMAGED IN, or CREATED

IN the ONE who imagines.

 

For example, the Christian Bible says "In His image created He Him"

this means God imagined him in Himself - it is unproductive to think

it means "He created him as looking like him", as is the common

interpretation of that passage.

 

Why? Because if God is Omnipresent as it is said, being that He, She

or "ItIS" Omnipresent; where then could that god put Man that was

not IN him – IN his own Omnipresent Self? And if Man appeared or was

imaged IN Gods OWN SELF, then all of every other being is also in

HIMSELF else God is not omnipresent is He? And if not, then His very

foundation which "IS" His so-called omnipresence is contradicted and

undermined; God would therefore cease to exist. Om!

 

So the ONE who imagines is no-one but The Absolute God (who is The

Self in ALL beings) because none can exist in omnipresence but ONE;

NONE but "THAT ONE"! - thus the idea that the beings are separately

existing is mere imagination; they are existing like a dream within a

dream of duality.

Mr. Self imagine that space as being yourself Oh God,

because it is true, OM!

It is not realized that Infinite space is actually conscious; it does

not require finite being to be Conscious. For example, even though

all beings seem to appear within space and seem to be independently

conscious of the space; the individuals are themselves projections of

selfhood (Jeeva). This is evident in the fact that there is no

possibility of self-reference without reference to the visualized

self. So who refers to what?

The Self is projecting them all "as well as the space".

The Self imagines the Space – He becomes the space by Will - then He

places

the Jiva in it by visualization and refers to the Jiva as himself!

He Refers to the I-ness as if it is Himself.

In this way, all beings though their physical presence seems to give

them identity, are inhered and projected by "the Very Same Self" who

is The Same ONE in ALL of them.

 

The "Prescient Presence" in the space within all beings, IMAGINES

what is IMAGED IN or projected into that inner space this appears as

perception and thought and is then called MIND.

 

The thought that the individual Mind exists; as either an "I" or a

presence in the inner space; is like saying that a space can be cut

from SPACE by a knife made of Space.

Another way of looking at it might be that due to the fact that there

is space in the atom it will mean that all space in all atoms is

conjoint because the Universe itself is an endless ocean of atoms.

 

This means that the even though the appearance of thoughts would

imply that the individual mind exists, it cannot and does not exist

because the thoughts appear as MIND in space inside the being.

However, what is not known is that "THE" space "IN" the being is

the "SAME" space as outside the being! It cannot be otherwise due to

the conjoint nature of the space in all atoms; yet if we remove all

the atoms which appear to break up that space, we would also then

remove the Cosmos; it can then be seen that the space was not broken

up at all because it permeated every atom of existence.

 

So then where else is that One which is conscious of the MIND

existing and what is it but infinite Being exercising its Will over

the matter which is imagined IN or IMAGED IN itself; And what is

imagination, but the evidence of the existence of Will beyond

imagination VISUALIZING the imagined.

 

To apply the Will to the imaginary is to impress upon the potential

the visualization or projection of the non-existent. In effect, it is

to "Image IN" or "imagine" a non-existent scenario or object

occurring or appearing in the INNER space. For example, the Will can

be impressed upon to imagine something existing which has no likeness

in this world. Or it can be impressed upon to imagine or visualize

things, events and objects out of which the attributes of the NOW

appear as the events and circumstances which appear to be real, while

in reality they are not real at all. So who caused the Will to

visualize this phantasm? It can only be the Conscious Absolute

existing as the I – Am!

It is no use saying that The Self cannot be the doer of either evil

or good deeds; as it is The Self who makes the jiva do those deeds in

order that the karma comes. The karma then causes the evolution of

the possibility of eventual self-realization to come into being "AS"

the Jiva.

 

The Nature of Will

 

It is evident that the existence of the individual i-ness is founded

in the Will because unless there is continuous self-reference, the i-

ness or Jiva cannot be imagined or referred to as self. In that case

there will be infinite space which though it seems internal, it

simply cannot be; due to the afore-mentioned Absolute Space. The Self

then is actually limiting Himself using the tool of self-reference

thus the Will applied to self-reference is the cause of the

limitation of the icchaa-Sakti. The limitation then is self-causes

and chosen by The Self. This does not mean that the individual can or

does limit God, it means that the Sakti itself limits itself such

that there be the existence of the i-ness. So as is said in the

books: "He is limited in His efficacy due to non-contemplation of who

He is. (i.e. Siva. is contemplating himself as Jiva instead of as

Himself hence he is limited by His own decision!

 

This means in order to be Jiva He must deliberately limit His

efficacy in the sphere of Will VIA Will (via choice), because the

Will and The Self are ONE-AND-THE-SAME! Hence, He visualizes Himself

as Jiva and is, by that very act, limited and restricted to being

Jiva. On the other hand, it is said that Siva has complete freedom of

Will and Action in all ways and modes of His own consciousness so

that even by choosing to be Jiva, He is not limited in any way what-

so-ever, because in less than a heart-beat He can free Himself from

Mind by the application of Will!

 

This means nothing can come into existence except by an act of will,

for example, no idea can be expressed in the creation of a new object

without the application of Will. Nor can the body deliberately act

without Will. So the question arises who uses or what is the enabler

of the Will? Who in us visualizes the "i" that might carry out

the "Willed-Act"? Could it be that the Will itself is self-actuating?

Or is there some other who wields the Will?

 

How can an inert piece of matter or meat such as the body have any

Will of its own, since it is directed by Will? How can something

imaginary have any being in itself due to it being imaginary?

Further, if only one being exists "AS" that space then The Will is in

it – "AS" it! And is therefore the infinite out of which all things

come to be defined by the light of "The Conscious One". OM!

 

So being that it is imaginary "IMAGED IN" the Absolute; the space in

which an object such as the Cosmos or a stone appears is the mirror

or presence of that object. While the Absolutely Conscious ONE, is

the knower or one who imagines it as such and such. This means that

The Absolute WILLS IT. BY imagining it BY Imaging IT – BY Projecting

IT! By visualizing it! Thus via visualization we can come to realize

who is The Self.

 

So then How to Imagine? How to create? If a thing is the center of

its own existence then the imaging of it is its creation! Its

existence and its presence!

 

How so?

 

The Will is used to picture the thing Imagined appearing as if out of

nowhere IN The Self; the presence of the visualization appears in the

INNER space of the Present Jiva and is, as-it-were dragged into

existence by the presence of the Watching God!

 

Thus the thing imagined (IMAGED IN) the present presence, will be

drawn to the God who "WILLS" thus and it will appear in Time near the

body clothing of the Jiva within which this Will is being exercised.

The Creation of the thing is therefore nothing more than its

projection BY Will.

 

But one would be forgiven if it was said that this is mere

imagination and can never come about or eventuate in the so-called

reality of the outer world. Well then, in the case of the Realized

there can be and is no such thing as the outer world. To that ONE

There is mere imaging, mere Illusion; appearing in that ONE such that

there is no outer reality at all. Imagination (and therefore the

Whole Cosmos) is realized to be nothing other than manifest Will

shining in that ONE. The fabric then of the so-called Consciousness

is therefore created from purest Will! But who can exercise such

massive Will as this that upholds and projects the Whole Cosmos into

being?

 

Ah! This is called the icchaa-Sakti or the Power-of-Will; it is the

omnipotence of God Himself. Knowledge of this is called icchaa-jnana.

Or the understanding that The Will of God and His Consciousness are

one-and-the-same.

 

It is said elsewhere, that any particle of any sort that can exist,

any Concept etc… Causes the Cosmos for its place of existence; i.e.

Will expresses or projects Time by imaging (by Imagining a thing as

existing IN SPACE) this then creates the Time in eternity in which

the thing visualized will appear and then the thing appears as

itself "IN" that Time! Time and Space therefore unfold simultaneously.

 

This means that the ONE who refers to something or anything as

existing is the instigator of its existence. So then, if there is the

Will to think "i am this man", women or being, or reference to an "I"

who has attributes which are not Sheer Will, He has limited His

efficacy in both action and freedom of Will.

 

It is thus impossible to use The Will to create anything out of thin

air, unless He has Realized Himself in Himself as Sheer Will only.

i.e. He has seen He is non-different from His Own Sakti, creative-

energy or power etc. and has realized that the seeming reality of

diverse things are nothing other than the potency of That Absolute

Will.

 

This means that that which appears to be real such as this Cosmos

(because it is mere potential only) is in decay because the Will has

not been kept in it once it manifested in that Will/Space/Sakti "AS"

the expression of that Will. In short this means that anything

manifested in this world will of course only last so long as the Will

which created it is in operation within it. On the other hand,

nothing can be created in this world that is eternally existing

because IT IS NOT the Will-itself but its manifestation only.

 

Only The Will which is non-different from the Absolute itself can

exist eternally, while everything existent must first be predicated

upon Time itself; inherent then in the existence of anything is its

non-existence due to time having to pass for the existence of the

thing to begin. All things therefore end. But the Will of The ONE

Self remains outside the creations and manifestations which exist as

existence.

 

Again: this Cosmos is nothing but a dream-

more than this… it is an IMAGINARY DREAM!

How does the Imaginary fabric begin?

It begins by the existence of non-existence existing in The Absolute.

This non-existence is like a black-hole in nature but it has not come

about by anything physical, (in fact that which we call black holes

might be the Minds of those that have attained empty-mind sucking the

whole cosmos into themselves.) or they may be the generators of

existence who knows? We will never know we can only surmise.

 

Yet this non-existence of which i speak is to be thought of as

absolute absence of either existence or non-existence nor both

existence and non-existence. It is utter moment. Pregnant and implied

with all the power of all the energy that manifests this Cosmos. This

force powers the stars. In itself, it is without-limit due to its

self-perpetuating nature.

 

It has neither physical parallel, nor manifestation except as that

which is manifested as the WHOLE Cosmic manifestation (both micro and

macro-cosmically speaking), yet in itself it simply cannot be

depleted by creating or powering this whole Cosmos. This is named

Omnipotence. It belongs only to the Omnipresent Omniscient ONE and

can be manipulated by no other as it is its' The Very Self of The

Self. Thus, we pray to God that He/She/It does not kill us! We pray

for His help while not knowing we are actually IN Him or that that

which we call "WE", (which implies many or "I" this "ME") is an

aspect of His own character; the whole sum of all beings Being what

is called ParamAtma.

 

Yet while the Jiva is the god of his own universe, he is not the god

of all universes, nor could he even conceive of being that god unless

he becomes THAT GOD which is impossible without losing himself

totally, such that it is said that by the grace of God He will give

us moksa. (freedom while alive).

 

Hence, that which the god called JivaAtma can bring about is limited

to that which does not undo him as that Jiva i.e. destroy the

barriers of the efficacy that defines his existence as such and such

a god in the Absolute… OM! This is the absolute root of the ego or

jiva. Recognizing this ego/Jiva is convicted of his inefficacy and

impotence. Thus is it said you are not the doer!!!!