Knowledge and Truth (God)

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Hi,

 

I've decided I want to write a little bit about knowledge, especially

as it relates to my personal experience. I like knowledge, but not for

its own sake, but because it leads me to God. If knowledge has no

power to help or transport, I want none of it.

 

Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram : Truth, Auspiciousness, or Ultimate

Goodness, and Beauty. These are attributes of God. They are also the

attributes of spiritual truth, because Truth, Pure Knowledge, is God

manifested.

 

In my view, real spiritual knowledge comes in two types, either it is

useful, practical, or it reveals (unveils) Divinity. Practical

spiritual knowledge helps yourself or others with the practical

aspects of sadhana, practices, etc., while the other actually has the

ability to connect, transport, awaken, and empower.

 

I know nothing of the scriptures, nothing of Sanskrit, nothing of the

Hindu liturgy, but for me, spiritual knowledge holds great beauty and

power to lift one to the heights of devotion. The accumulation of

scriptural knowledge for its own sake only feeds the ego, and becomes

a burden to the soul. But it can be a key that unlocks the hidden

mysteries of the Beauty that is All This.

 

My mind always tends toward synthesis; it's just the way it works. It

enjoys collecting disparate little pieces of information, and putting

them together into a meaningful whole (I see it as approaching Truth).

Fortunately, this is just what is needed in the realm of spiritual

understanding. The samsara is filled with divisions, separations, and

opposites, yet behind it all, the cause of it all, is One - Unity.

 

For me, it is like a jigsaw puzzle, except that the pieces are all

scattered about and I don't know what the finished picture will look

like; I only know it will be Beautiful. A scripture, here, will have a

piece, a person, there, a bit of Light from contemplation...One only

needs to learn to read between the lines, to look for the meaning

between the opposites.

 

I collect these disparate bits of spiritual information, keeping them

somewhere in the back of my mind, until one day I get a piece that

fits with all the others and a beautiful Image of Divinity appears.

That image is only a piece, can be only the merest piece of a piece,

but it nevertheless somehow contains the perfection of Beauty it

represents.

 

We live in a universe of infinite beauty and diversity. There is no

end to the discovery of Its wonders, the worship of Its infinite

Being. It is the birthright of every one of us. The ultimate destiny

of all of us who finally go beyond. At least, that is how I see it...

 

Jai Maa!

Chris