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.