The Ultimate truth

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The Ultimate truth

 

This lion cub, which had lost its mother, and was reared by a sheep, would take

itself to be a sheep and was very timid, subdued and fearful. It would move

about with the sheep, eat grass, etc.

One day a full grown lion chanced upon them and all the sheep along with the cub

tried to flee. The lion was perplexed to see the cub flee from him. So he caught

hold of the cub and asked him as to why he was behaving thus. The cub full of

fear and trembling, said `Please don't eat me up.'

The lion out of pity took him to a pond and made him look at his reflection, and

said `You are a lion. You are one of us. See! You look just like me. Now stop

this nonsense and roar like me!'

The cub, still trembling, tried to roar, but could only bleat. After several

tries, he roared successfully. He was surprised and happy. He was freed from all

fear! He now moved among the lions happily as one of them.

The spiritual analogy is obvious - the Lion symbolizes the `Atma', while the

sheep symbolizes body-consciousness, the latter keeping us far away from

awareness of our true nature!!!

Another example: Let us say there is a tree and there is also sunlight. The tree

would naturally cast a shadow; as a result, we then have both the tree as well

as the shadow. The tree is the totality while the shadow, being a projection of

the tree on a two-dimensional plane, has features related to the tree.

Thus it is that in the shadow we see bits and pieces of the trunk, the branches,

the leaves, and so on. Of course, all the details in the original tree are not

seen in the shadow. Similarly, when God created the Universe by projecting

Himself, all aspects of His Divinity are not fully evident in this projection.

That's why we humans have difficulty in accepting & realizing that we're from

God!!! Since all the aspects of God are not clearly visible in us (Except in the

case of POORNA AVATARS) we don't realize that we're ourselves God!!!

Surely we would agree that just because the shadow is there, the tree does not

vanish or cease to be. This is a very important point, and it is to stress this

that Krishna essentially tells Arjuna,

" I am God! I am God! I am not different from God! You're also God! The only

difference between you & me is that while you don't realize that you're also

God, I'm fully aware that I AM GOD. I AM THAT!!! "

Krishna further explains that the Universe is a projection of the Formless God

on space-time. Further, all the diversity we see is a trick of the Divine Shadow

Play; that is, on the stage called space-time, The One appears as many!

PS: " The purpose of life is to find unity with God, to realize Divinity within;

to find unity with God means to know that you are God. That's all. So long as we

feel that we are different from God, there is a long way to go. We will have to

travel along the spiritual path until that identity, that oneness, that unity is

realized and experienced. "

We need to strive to elevate ourselves and work to attain the highest goal, God

Himself.

5:06 PM 5/27/2009