Existence

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Perhaps because we experience our existence as individual entities, the

possibility that Existence is only experiencing itself in a particular manner is

worth reflecting on. Existence might be called the Great Mother or the Great

Emptiness from which all things are born. From the perspective of the mind, the

experience of Self is often described as Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence,

Consciousness, Bliss) in the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. A spiritual path might

be defined in terms of which attribute most appeals to the mind. Once a student

asked a teacher, "How can I really know whether I

exist or not after death?" The teacher said, "You Are Existence." The jump was

too big. The student became silent. One day, after many years, the student

Realized. The Self Is Existence. Pure Perception is the Same as the Pure

Perceiver. It is not nothingness. It is devoid of things. It is No-Thingness.

This perception is devoid of all thoughts and concepts and imagination of this

and that and therefore is free from interpretation. To say It is beyond this and

beyond that is to make a mystery of it. No need to complicate the simple beauty

of who we are.

 

Harsha