 124. Philosophy � Greek |
separate. You are presuming to be a "body-mind" and seeing reality from that "point of view"- so you ask many questions. The source of the question is not that you are looking at all of Reality and coming up with a notion about It. The source of the question is your divorce from Reality: "How did all this separateness occur?" You presume that separation has occurred, and that it has occurred in the form in which you perceive it to exist, but that is an illusion based on a gesture of "organism" life.
In Reality (SELF-Realization), it is not so. Reality Itself, Realized, is Free of that complication that is based on your presumption of separateness. Reality doesn't have to account for the illusion you are suffering from. Reality doesn't contain that illusion. What is actually happening is not what you think, nor what you are presuming. What you are presuming is an illusion, ultimately. If there were the Realization of Reality, any question would not exist, because you would not be suffering the illusion. Reality is not what you think. Or, as Shakespeare says, "There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy." Egoic "reality" is entirely your creation, and is NOT a UNIVERSAL REALITY, or CONDITION. It's entirely your creation - this presumed separate "thing" and all the rest of it that you perceive on the basis of that presumption.
That which is born of flesh (the psychological ego-I) is flesh (is of the flesh) and that which is born of spirit (experienced as spirit) is spirit. -Jesus, John 3:6
"I protest by our rejoicing which I have in Christ, I die daily."** By a method of centering inwardly all bodily life force (which ordinarily is directed only outwardly, to the sensory world, thus lending it a seeming validity), St. Paul experienced daily a true yoga union with the "rejoicing" (bliss) of the Christ Consciousness. In that felicitous state he was conscious of being "dead" to or freed from sensory delusions, the world of maya.
When Crito asks, "In what way shall we bury you, Socrates?" Socrates answers, "In any way you like, but first, you must catch me, the real me. Be of good cheer, my dear Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that whatever is usual and what you think is best."
-Yogananda
*The practice of shutting down the physical body and brain along with the psychological ego-I, but, to remain as pure consciousness in the state of SELF awareness. i.e. to know and experience thy SELF as eternal spirit. (Pure consciousness, or spirit is the form (state) of eternally existing universal SELF awareness prior to all things, or that which is called God.)
**1 Corinthians 15:31. "Our rejoicing" is the correct translation; not, as usually given, "your rejoicing." St. Paul was referring to the universality of the Christ Consciousness.
