Avadhuta Gita

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QUESTION by Jay:

" How can the same one 'divine' appear in all this variety? "

 

 

ANSWER by Mahalayananda:

" This is a very essential question often difficult for most people to

encompass. Laaksman Joo from the Kasmiri Shivaist tradition (To which also

this author belongs) calls it a transmutation where the absolute in the

descending state actually doesn't change at all only apparently since nothing

is can be taken away or added.

 

The Shivais tradition is a monist tradition seeing everything as the absolute

in different forms. Only the limitations of our minds keep us from realizing

this. As high as you are that high you see. If you are in the valley you are

not able to overlook things, but on the mountain or nowadays from space you

will be able to overlook it all. From a distance the earth even appears small.

Still it didn't change at all but your view only. "

 

 

COMMENT by Vinaire:

" The first and foremost hurdle that one encounters in trying to comprehend

the 'one divine' is the conditioning that this universe exerts on our minds.

We look at things that are made of matter and energy and which exist in space

and time. Thus, in our thoughts, too, we mirror matter, energy, space and time

when we try to understand.

 

This can be seen in the confusion about God being one or many. Hardly anybody

stops to think that both 'one' and 'many' refer to a quantity. A quantity

applies to something made of matter and energy, which exists in space and

time. But what we are trying to understand here is the SOURCE of all matter,

energy, space, and time. That source must be beyond matter, energy, space, and

time. Therefore, it cannot be quantified, period. Thus, neither 'one'

nor 'many' may be applied with any accuracy to the 'one divine'.

 

Here is an experiment that is very interesting if conducted with full

consciousness:

 

" (1) THINK A THOUGHT

(2) OBSERVE THAT THOUGHT.

(3) OBSERVE WHERE THAT THOUGHT IS.

(4) ANALYZE WHERE IT COULD HAVE BEEN BEFORE YOU BROUGHT IT INTO EXISTENCE. "

 

Then let me hear from you the results of this experiment.