Tuesday 10 March 2009

Knowing not to know.

It’s not that there’s no God
It’s that there’s only God

Thing is though .. as the fella says ... on the back cover of his book ..
"Back cover "
! Yep, that's what he does say ! (Just joking, actually the cut & paste thing only worked for that bit.)

Basically he's just saying that seeking for the Truth or oneness is all part of oneness so, if you enjoy the game .. let's carry on ! Nice.

He also points out that many people think that Advaita is trying to point out a state of oneness that can be discovered .. but in fact this is already it .. we are swimming in oneness like the little fish that asked its mother, "Mummy, where is the ocean ?" to which the mummy fish replied, "Show me where there is no ocean and I'll show you the ocean."

Which can be succinctly put like this;

When God is everything
It makes him hard to spot (Advaita Notebook.)

One of the problems with unitarian consciousness is, it can't be conceptualised because as soon as it is, the conceptualiser is back in dualistic consciousness .. therefore it has to be realised directly and communicated directly (hence the "satsang" tradition because you can "pick it up" from a realised guru). However one can point to it (as masters have been doing for centuries) and you can capture the problems .. e.g. like this;

"It’s only when you look for God
He pops behind a tree.
Look away and he’ll be there." (from the Advaita Notebook.)

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