We hear the words, but we do not understand. Why? because we are confused with all the concepts and ideas we have gathered all our life.
Let's examine this all closely.
What does ONENESS mean? it means there is only ONE. Nothing else exists. The ONE is all there is.
What is DUALITY? Duality means what we perceive. The world of OBJECTS. There are MANY - this is duality. Everything has an opposite. Everything is within TIME and SPACE. Everything has a beginning and an END. Everything is BORN and DIES. Everything has a SHAPE and a FORM and attributes like COLOUR, WEIGHT etc.
FORMLESS - what does that mean? It mean NO FORM - NO BOUNDARY. NO SHAPE.
How many FORMLESS 'things' can there be? Only ONE - because it has no boundary - no limits - it never ends - it extends to infinity. If it ends - then it has a form and is not formless.
We say that GOD is FORMLESS and INFINITE. GOD is therefore the ONENESS. Nothing except the ONENESS exists. The ONE is all there is. Because it is infinite - it encompasses all time and all space.
GOD is therefore outside of the realm of TIME and SPACE.
Now let's go into this a little deeper.
God has NO FORM so cannot live in a particular place. Why?
Because only if you have a FORM do you exist in TIME and SPACE. God does not exist within
TIME or SPACE. Therefore He does not LIVE ANYWHERE. He also does not MOVE, THINK,
ACT, JUDGE, GIVE COMMANDMENTS, LOVE or HATE anyone, or HEAR YOUR PRAYERS.
GOD does not have a MIND, otherwise he would be within time and space. Therefore he is not like anything you can think of. In fact you cannot say anything about God because all you have is a concept of God and God is not encompassed in a concept.
In the hindu shastras it describes God as NETI NETI - meaning neither THIS nor THAT.
Okay - so we have established that God has NO FORM.
Next question - does your SOUL have a form? It is said that the soul is a particle of God and shares the same attributes. This means the soul also has no form.
Again remember that all this is a METAPHOR and not literal. There are no literal particles of God.
You have a soul that occupies your body and is the REAL YOU. This soul also have NO FORM.
Hmmm.... interesting.
God has NO FORM. The soul also has NO FORM.
So what does that mean? can there be two formless entities that co-exist?
FORMLESS means that there is no BOUNDARY - no SHAPE - no FORM. It means that the
formless thing is INFINITE - it occupies ALL SPACE - it is EVERYWHERE.
Can there be TWO infinities? Of course not - because then neither is INFINITE.
If there were TWO or more - then they are all FINITE. They have a boundary.
So there cannot be TWO. There can only be ONE.
It is impossible for TWO or MORE to exist. There is only space enough for GOD.
The soul cannot co-exist with God. So there is NO SOUL. There cannot be. If you
believe there is a SOUL then you have mis-understood the nature of NO FORM.
The ONLY WAY you can have a soul is to say that it DOES have a form. In which case
it is FINITE and LIMITED. It cannot then be of the same essence as God.
In which case the soul is FINITE, LIMITED and DIES. All things that are IN FORM
are FINITE, LIMITED and they will all DIE.
However, everyone who believes in a SOUL also says the soul is ETERNAL and never dies.
DUALITY
Duality means more than one. You live in duality. Everything in duality has an opposite. Duality exists in TIME and SPACE. Everything here is dual.
Hot - Cold; Up - Down; Big - Small; Here - There; Good - Bad; Right - Wrong; rue - False; High - Low; Success - Failure; God - Devil; Sat Purush - Kal; Life - Death;
As long as you live in duality - you are in illusion. You are living in MAYA. Now here is the interesting thing. Sant Mat teachings are DUALITY TEACHINGS. What that means is that they encourage you to think in duality.
What do I mean? Well - first of all - you are MEDITATING and TRYING to GET to Sach Khand. Well that is duality. In your mind you create a CONCEPT of Sach Khand. You believe Sach Khand is a PLACE somewhere. Maybe you're not sure where - but if it is a place then of course it must be somewhere!
Sat Purush LIVES in that place and is the ruler of Sach Khand. The goal of every sant mat disciple is to get a personal audience with Sat Purush. And once you get there - you live there forever. The method is MEDITATION.
Now the truth is YOU WILL NEVER GET THERE. Why? because it is impossible. There is no such place - except in your mind. Of course you CAN get there IN YOUR MIND - just as you create dreams every night. The dreams APPEAR to be REAL. So Sach Khand or the inner flight of the soul will APPEAR to be real.
Sant mat gives you a CODE OF ETHICS - which is trying to make you into a GOOD PERSON. Well - that too is duality. GOOD is a duality concept. In reality there is no GOOD and no BAD. Good and bad only exist within DUALITY.
Good it that which BENEFITS you or others. BAD is that which HARMS you or others.
Krishna in the Gita appears to be BAD because he encouraged Arjuna to fight and kill. However, you need to understand duality before you will understand krishna.
If your car is stolen is that GOOD or BAD?
If a certain person (call him FRED) DIES - is that GOOD or BAD?
If you get MARRIED is that GOOD or BAD?
If you get DIVORCED is that GOOD or BAD?
Now let's answer:
If you car is stolen - it could be either. Perhaps it was insured and you got paid out more than it was really worth and you wanted a new car anyway.
Maybe FRED was a BAD person and had killed many people - so him dying would be good.
Maybe you are marrying someone who is going to make your whole life a misery.
Maybe getting divorced is the best thing because you were so miserable in the marriage.
My point is this:
GOOD and BAD requires a PERSONAL VIEWPOINT. If there is no personal viewpoint then there is no good and bad. Then life is simply life and what happens is simply what happens.
If something BENEFITS you - you consider it GOOD. If it HARMS you - you consider it BAD.
If there is no personal perspective - there GOOD and BAD disappears.
GOD has no personal perspective - so there is no GOOD or BAD for him.
So when you PRAY - you are talking nonsense because you are asking for something GOOD
to happen - or to avoid something BAD. Both of which are meaningless in NON-DUALITY.
To God they are meaningless - because in GOD's WORLD - there IS NO MEANING.
MEANING only exists in DUALITY. No Duality = No Meaning.
Meaning is created by the MIND. God has NO MIND.
Sant Mat is a DUALITY teaching. You are putting in EFFORT to get salvation (get to Sach Khand). You are assuming that it will happen ONE DAY in the future.
You are trying to be a GOOD person. You believe that Master is Sat Purush In human form and if you obey his commandments - you will get to Sach Khand. This is all ILLUSION. Let me explain why.
ONENESS
There is a state one ONENESS. It is the opposite of duality.
Everything that duality has - does not exist in ONENESS.
Good, Bad, Right, Wrong, Up, Down, High, Low, Hot, Cold, Big, Small, Here, There, past, future, present, God, Devil, Enlightenment, Ignorance etc etc etc.
All this is within DUALITY. In ONENESS it does not exist.
In ONENESS - only ONE thing EXISTS :- NO-THING or NOTHING - or the ABSENCE of ALL THINGS. ONESS is a VOID in which only the VOID exists. That VOID is YOU - it is also GOD. The two are ONE and the SAME. YOU and GOD are not TWO. Why? because there is ONLY ONE.
The ONE is ALL THERE IS. You can also call it the NOTHINGNESS. Because there is nothing there. It is not even a place - it does not exist within TIME and SPACE. It is the ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS - there is not even any EMPTY SPACE there. There is also NO TIME there.
You cannot ARRIVE there because (1) it is not a PLACE and (2) there is NO TIME and (3) there is NO YOU to arrive. As long as you think in terms of YOU and GOD - you are in DUALITY.
The WAY to TRUTH
Is there a way to TRUTH?
Of course the question you have to ask even before that is - What is Truth?
Truth means that which is BEYOND TIME AND SPACE. The REAL ONE.
If you want to - you could call it God - or the ONE. When you realize this for yourself -
You have realized the truth.
This realization I speak of is not a theory - or a philosophy or an idea. It is not something you hear from other or read about. I am saying that you must have a REALIZATION of the truth that is beyond all ideas and theories. Truth is not an idea or a belief. It is not just about THINKING.
Something happens to you that is beyond what you can explain. Truth becomes obvious and absolutely clear. If it remains just an idea - then you simply have a BELIEF about the truth - not truth itself.
In our normal life - we collect ideas and information. We memorize and learn. None of this is real knowing. Real Knowing means to know for yourself - from your own experience.
Truth is to be realized in the same way. It is not a theory to be understood.
How does this realization happen? It starts with UNDERSTANDING - but it does not end there.
The first requirement is someone who has REALIZED. A living Realizer is needed. Is it possible to get to truth WITHOUT a living Realizer? Yes - in theory it is possible in that it CAN happen - but it is not very likely for the simple reason that we ourselves are the barrier to Truth. We are unable to go beyond our own barriers. That is why you need a realized person to help you.
In Sant Mat terminology that person is called the Satguru. Sat is Truth and Guru means Teacher. So literally Satguru just means a teacher of Truth. There is not need to REVERE the Satguru, or worship him or even put him on a pedestal. You do not need to CONTEMPLATE the form of the Satguru.
Simply understand his purpose. The purpose is to help you to go beyond your concepts and show you the Truth. That's it. Once you have realized the truth - you leave. The journey is over. You don't spend your whole life sitting at the feet of the guru. Simply learn the lesson and leave.
However, in order to learn you need to be RECEPTIVE and OPEN. If you are CLOSED and ARGUMENTATIVE then it will not happen for you. You will remain as you are. In order to allow Truth in - you have to first dispense with the Untruth. What is the Untruth? It is your OPINIONS and IDEAS and CONCEPTS about God, Enlightenment and Truth that you have collected over the years. You have to let go of those ideas and that is going to be a challenge. Why? Because you are familiar with them and you think they are the Truth.
It isn't what you don't know - but what you know - that just ain't so - that keeps you from truth.
You have many mis-conceptions - that you think are true. That is why you don't realize the Truth. You have too many untruths that are the barrier to truth. When you drop them - the truth becomes revealed.
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