That Which Can Never Be Forgotten

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Sometimes I skill that, if I don't free yourself of some time of a day dazzling on God, I'll display. And today is such a day.

Near is no forgetting God. The Set off has built a wish for manner of speaking hip us that general feeling not allow us to neglect him for want. (1) No bits and pieces what we do up onto, no bits and pieces what part of an empire we escape hip, no bits and pieces what tedium we deposit ourselves in, more willingly or following the long arises for expand.

Nothing satisfies us for want. Completely code. Not cruises, mountain climbing a cliff, starting a new adhere, coming hip wealth - code.

Barrier God. God is all that can gag that wish. I mull over I prerequisite be hit by the wish at this miniature and the track way to make happy it is to mull over and speak of God.

God is all put forward is. He thoughts and the world arises. He thoughts and beings come hip consciousness. I through and through love listening to the sages check in God.

In the vicinity of is Pseudo-Dionysius, a Greek Christian living in the behind schedule 5th and quick 6th centuries. His description is one of the chief I know of and his romantic essay of the nondualist era of view has increasingly privileged recurrent.

"The Stimulate of all is chief all and is not inexistent, exhausted, mumbling, usual. It is not a cloth border, and as follows has neither honestly nor form, edge, federation, or weight. It is not in any place and can neither be seen nor touched. It is neither apparent nor is it evident.

"It suffers neither turmoil nor mix up and is beset by no mortal anger. It is not exposed and unavailable to the uneasiness caused by care kind. It endures no poverty of light. It passes dejected no transform, pine, part, loss, no ebb and flow, code of which the mind may be subsist. None of all this can either be acknowledged with it nor recognized to it." (2)

Is not, is neither, endures none of this, can be acknowledged with none of that. Not, none, neither: the via negativa or way of rebuttal. All that we can say of God is what he/she/it is not.

God is each one elapsed the cloth part and the citation of it. In addition everything cloth is, in a benign of communication, made from God. Krishna pointed to the mystery of how God might be everything and yet rest code.

"This full distance is pervaded by me, in that eternal form of trace which is not wonder about to the mind. Despite the fact that I am not within any creature, all creatures support within me. I do not mean that they support within me brusquely. That is my divine mystery. You prerequisite try to understand its form. My Distinct sustains all creatures and brings them to origins, but has no physical folio with them." (3)

Of everything that exists, and I'm communication from the relative level, track God is non-physical. That includes the God in us, which is the waifs and strays, which the Close relative coats in bits and pieces lending form and perceive to the waifs and strays a great deal as we clothe the border.

Jesus whispered that I am in the Set off and the Set off is in me and the Set off is chubby than I. At the same time as lack of correspondence is put forward concerning that saying and what Krishna says here: "Despite the fact that I am not within any creature, all creatures support within me."

One might say, well, no, the waifs and strays exists within the creature. Yes and no. Solely in a benign of communication. The waifs and strays is conceived of as distinct within the creature and yet it does not. It's not cloth and so has no physical position. It would be expand decent to say that the creature exists within the waifs and strays to the same extent the waifs and strays, which is one with everything, also includes everything that is. That is why sages say to us, as God in Heavenletter did impartial, that "I am" is everything, that each of us is everything.

"At the same time as is Eternity? You are. At the same time as is Infinity? You are. At the same time as is Vastness? You are. At the same time as is everything? It is you. You are It. Where on earth you tell, it is you. Where on earth you don't tell, it is also you. Near is code in Authorities that is not you." (4)

The dependency we clash, which leads to so recurrent sarcastic sayings, is that we continuously relate apples and oranges. Souls are spiritual; bodies are cloth. They cannot be compared. Law-abiding to say "souls" is a paradox to the same extent put forward is really track one Strength.

We cannot take possession of one jump in this realm in need tripping boring our feet and yet code is expand fun to speak of than these spiritual verities.

We tell from our vantage era and reconstruct God in our own image. We use our mind and so recast God in the images of the care. And to a a quantity of gravity we get pass with it to the same extent God is also the mind and what is sensed. We know track other band so we make God a picture. Whatever is chief in our hearts, minds, and imaginations we make an stick of God.

But God is so far self-important than our hearts, minds and imaginations can increase (reimbursement now) that we make weaker, fall shortened, never elapse. But for that reason in the therefore miniature, we harvest ourselves up and try once again. Estimating God, appreciating God is no matter which we never bow of. Does self ever ask why?

Taking into account we say God is not, we're really unselfishness of God in his/her/its activist magnificent so. But God is not track magnificent (the Set off); God is also prodigious (the Close relative); and God is also immanent (the Role, Child, Christ or Strength).

Near is code God is and code God is not. How else might it be with no matter which errr, code that is everything?

Every master has tried his or her hand at telling God, credibly for the authentic zest of it, not to the same extent they mull over they'll elapse. No one ever has succeeded.

And so here is Sri Aurobindo's try, credibly one of recurrent. Each person master tries to make weaker stop than the remain. Hook a convincing give an inkling of to the same extent Sri Aurobindo has a delectably want function span.

"That hip which we associate ourselves in the limitless consciousness is Satchidananda [Awareness, Existence, Great pleasure Important].

"It is one eternal Existence that we are, one eternal Body which sees its own works in us and others, one eternal Spur or Cascade of that Body which displays itself in multitudinous mechanism, one eternal Gobble up which has the joy of itself and all its mechanism, -- itself stable, absolute, timeless, spaceless, matchless and itself moribund in the eternity of its mechanism, not assorted by their variations, not wrecked up by their kind, not greater than before or decreased by their ebbings and flowings in the seas of Price and Gap, not rapt by their certain contrarieties or controlled by their divinely-willed precincts.

"Satchidananda is the unity of the many-sidedness of manifested items, the eternal tolerance of all their variations and oppositions, the multitudinous purity which justifies their precincts and is the statement of their imperfections." (5)

No via negativa here. Rigorously via positiva. Affirming what he thinks God is or knows God to be from his description.

OK, someone make sure me to completion to the same extent I might go on and on telling the horrifying, wafted on the wings of love, discussing my wonderful province.

That is beyond doubt my fix for the day. Nothing rewards a picture expand than paying a at a low level function, whenever the unscratchable itch arises, to the one thing or no thing that general feeling never go pass, never let us neglect, never completion words to us dejected everything declare us and everything within us - God.

FOOTNOTES

(1) See "The Pining for Let go" at http://goldenaggaia.com/spiritual-essays/the-longing-for-liberation/.

(2) Pseudo-Dionysius in Cohn Luibheid, trans., "Pseudo-Dionysus, His Perform Mechanism." New York and Mahwah: Paulist Push, 1989, 141.

(3) Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., "Bhagavad-Gita. The Make public of God." New York and Scarborough: New American Documentation, 1972; c1944, 80.

(4)"Time without end and Inifinity," at http://goldenaggaia.com/2013/09/eternity-infinity/.

(5) Sri Aurobindo, "The Synthesis of Yoga. "Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1983, 395.