ABOUT OUR UNITY WITH THE INFINITE, part II - by
Guenther Zuehlsdorf, translation from the original German edition into
Portuguese by Huberto Rohden and translated into English by Flavio de
Mello.
In the same sense the Greek philosopher
Heraclitus wrote: "You will never find the limit of the soul, although
walking through all paths - so profound is its being."
Here too we find the idea of unexplained and
mysterious nature of the soul, as well as its unlimited scope and its rootedness
in the great Whole.
This unlimited character, this Absolute, which is
Brahman, is called by the Hindus "anantam", which means
"without end", i.e., "jnanamanamantam", that is "infinite
consciousness". And this infinite consciousness, say the Upanishads, is
tat twam asi - "this is you".
These great truths affirm that God is immanent in
all things of the world, as well as our intelligence is present in each of our
thoughts. The Universe is God in its manifestation, God that dwells as spirit or
intimate essence in all existences, which receives from this essence its
existence.
Hence we conclude that we are so intimately
united with God, the cosmic essence, the absolute spirit, that any life separate
from God would be an impossible nonsense. As the supreme and ultimate Reality of
Being, which realizes the Universe within its own substance, God is the
inseparable Reality of all accomplished things. All finite existences emanate
from the Infinite Essence.
In this sense, Paul Brunton writes in his book
"The Wisdom of the Overself": "When we really comprehend the intimate nature of
the smallest ant, we also comprehend the nature of the whole Universe; because
the spiritual essence that exist under the existential form of the ant is the
same in all other existential forms of the Universe. Who comprehends such thing
made a major advance in its journey".(1)
An poet of the past expresses this same truth as
follows; "Little flower, who blossoms in the old wall, I pluck thee from among
the clefts of the rocks and hold you in my hand, with your roots and with all
that completes your being. Little flower, if I really knew who you are and what
you are, I would also know what is God and what is man".
The philosophy of this cosmic monism, of this
essential unity of all things, does not know creation in the usual sense. If
there had been creation, follows that the Reality is separated into fragments.
But fragmentation and limitation exist only in our imagination. If we abandon
this false imagination, there is only unity. Instead of a God absent and
distant, we see a God present, omnipresent, immanent in all things, a God who is
the very essence and unique substance of the entire cosmos, or Pure
Consciousness, that men give the name "God".
The known formula tat twam asi -
"this is you", expresses that this Pure Consciousness is the intimate reality of
the Creator as well as any creature, both God and man.
When immature men hear this philosophy, conclude
that man, with all his imperfections, is identical to God, that I am, (in my
little human ego) infinite, omnipotent and therefore free from all law. But
before we comprehend this, we should know that there is no personality in the
traditional sense.(2)
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Translator's Note:
1) This and other statements proves that part of
humanity is making an effort to approach to the ancient philosophy of the great
sages and mystics of all peoples and countries. This monism is equidistant from
the separatist dualism of theologies and philosophies of many in the West as
well as of pantheism from certain ideologies of Eastern thought. This is cosmic
monism, in fact, the alpha and omega of the "Cosmic Philosophy", based on the
own nature of the Universe, one in his infinite Essence and diverse in its
finite existences. This great unity in the wider diversity is that link, as a
thread of perennial light, the thought of Socrates and Plato.
2) Personality, person comes from the Latin word
persona, which means mask. Persona was the mask that the
ancient actors used to cover their faces. One cannot confuse personality with
individuality, when the philology of these words clearly indicates its meaning.
Individual = undivided, indivisible.
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