Wednesday, 4 February 2015

ABOUT OUR UNITY WITH THE INFINITE, part II

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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