THE BEGINING OF DUALITY,,,Seeking the Divinity

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THE BEGINING OF DUALITY,,,Seeking the Divinity

 

By Dr.John Hislop

 

Swami says that creation is endless, and that the first expansion of

indivisible, consciousness into duality, that is taking itself as an

object, manifests as granite, as the rock. Then He says the rock

dies and reborn as a tree. After all that experience, tree dies and

is reborn as animal; and after that long, long experience, animal

promote itself to the status of human being.

 

Beyond that, there are a total of (seven ) steps on this journey out

into manifestation, out into multiplicity ; and then back into

heart, into unity. There is rock, vegetable , animal , human,

superhuman, cosmic, and divine.

 

Dr Hislop says, one of his friend in Mexico is still engaged in that

outward flow of life into manifestation. So what is the harm ? You

know it can last for millions and millions of years, and millions

and millions of incarnations. All perfectly legitimate.

 

There really is no reason for anyone to take up a spiritual life and

try to find the central truth about things, until he feels in

himself that impulse to do it. Prosing people and urging them to

take up a spiritual life, is only effective if they are ripe for it.

 

Then you did perhaps the greatest good deed that is possible for

anybody. But in general, the world is not ready for that, will never

be ready for it, because there is constant coming into manifestation

of life as it advances through this progressive evolution.

 

What then causes a person to become interested in spiritual life ?

What causes a person to come to a place like this instead staying

home, talking to friends,playing cards or watching TV ? It is

because you have been through it all, otherwise you would not been

here. Somehow or other, in recesses of your heart, you started to

ask some deep questions. You know, in questioning, the important

thing is to pose the right question; and observing, it is necessary

to find the essential as distinguished from the nonessential.

 

You must have observed in your own life that the satisfaction of all

your desires, that is, in manifestation, in duality, rises up in us

because of our mind. The vital breath stirs, we exert all our

efforts towards satisfying our desires, and enjoy life throughly.

 

Many people do not want to be liberated, that is, do not want to

find themselves. They want to be engaged in life. They want to come

back again and again to enjoy life.

 

You will find many people will tell you that-----even people with

few possibilities.

 

One starts to approach the spiritual life from having asked the

question, is there anything that can give me eternal satisfaction ?

Is there some object of desire that will always give me the maximum

happiness I want and that will not degenerate into something that

makes me unhappy instead ?

 

That is the proper question.

 

Then you start to wonder, how am I going to go about making this

discovery ?. What am I going to do ? It has been said, the process

of detachment is difficult.

 

To merge with Swami is the path of devotion. Swami says

that one should eighter be totally detached from the sensory

objective world or one should know and visualize Godhead in the

objective world and worship the divinity.

 

Finally, one realize that he is not different from God, that God is

in the heart and only God exists. That is the final and essential

freedom, the realization that everything is God.

Any appearances to the contrary is just illusion---temporary,

passing.

 

Jai Sai Ram.

(Sharing with Sai Love)

Ramchand Chugani <rgcjp