Mike S/Time Is The Child...

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Hi Michael,

 

Nisargadatta, MSouther@e... wrote:

> I've been thinking about just this subject lately. In looking back

> to the time before I was born, I find nothing there. No me, no

> god, no world. Just a sort of golden light, encapsulated in a

> round bulb.

 

This sounds almost like a 'memory' of the womb. According to Maharaj

anyway, the 'state before birth' can't be remembered (at least as

details like this), as he describes it, " a nonattentive state. "

 

> I conclude that there is a potentiality in the nothingness. An

> energy which causes it to burst forth into the the world (and me).

 

Yes, a potentiality... always about ready to manifest, to *burst*

into the whole existence, the humming, buzzing, moving, busy but

purposeless movement of manifestation. If " remaining still " for

awhile, the 'hummingness' can be 'felt' in the body (or just 'in

general', not located in any body) very much like Maharaj describes,

almost a feeling of crying out, " I am, I am. " This has been

called " life energy, " also Om.

 

My 'spiritual nickname' Omkara, indicates just that exact 'instant'

when the entire manifest bursts from nowhere into existence, like the

instant the " big bang " takes place. The Omkara or sound of OM is the

exact 'point' where 'nothing' becomes 'something'.

 

> This energy can't be stopped and appears to be what we know of

> as life itself. It arises spontaneously from an inexhaustible

> source - regardless of what anyone does or doesn't do.

 

The source is inexhaustible, the energy as manifested " in a

particular body " necessarily limited, which can only explain why

bodies age and die eventually.

 

But the particular body (labeled with a name and declared 'born' on

some arbitrary date) is not 'what we are'.

 

Love,

 

Omkara