Dear
Santhosh.
It seems
that "A Course In Miracles" backs up everything you say. You may be
right and I may be wrong.? Sorry I was so argumentative. Lots of love to you.
Dearest Trev ,
As per my
conviction:
Only on dualistic point of view the arguments are possible. In non- dual reality there is no second thing
exists other than the formless soul, which is present in the form of
consciousness. That is: I & you and
the world are one in essence. Thus there is no second thing exists other than
the essence, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Miracles are mere Ideas. And ideas are Illusory
in their nature. These ideas too are consciousness, (the soul, the innermost self
is present in the form of consciousness) and hence no miracle really occurs.
Only when one sees all individuals, especially himself as imagined ideas, can he
rise to see them later as consciousness. Thus there are two stages. One must
first see himself as illusory before he sees others and the world as illusory.
Miracles deals within the duality. It
is concerned with objective reality. It is not concerned with subjective
reality. The miracles do not exist outside the self (soul) but they have a
psychological existence and that psychological existence. The psychological
existence is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. So the first
thing to be understood is that are part of the illusory existence where man and
his experience of the world are reality.
The miracles happen within the duality. Without the duality
there is no miracle. The miracles and the performer of the miracle, and the one
who is watching the miracle and the world were the miracles takes place are one
in essence. That essence is
consciousness. The consciousness (soul)
is the innermost self.
Just as (the delusion) of the serpent does not exist in the rope in all
the three periods of time (past, present, and future), so the universe (waking
experience) does not exist in the formless soul, the innermost self, which is
the non-dual One.
Being of the nature of awareness alone, there is not inertness in the
formless soul, the innermost self. Being of the nature of Truth, there is not a
non-truth to the formless soul, the innermost self. Being of the nature of
awareness, there is no ignorance in the formless soul, the innermost self.
It is through ignorance that the universe (waking) shines as reality
.Whoever acquires Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is free from
experiencing the birth, life, death and the world as reality.
The Advaitic
formula, to be successively realized, is: “the
world is unreal; Brahman is real; the world is Brahman.” This is the vision
of non-duality. Sage Sri, Sankara affirmed a progression of points of
view depending on the stage of one’s practice.
“From the standpoint of the waking entity the universe is a reality from the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self, the universe is mere illusion created out of consciousness. When wisdom dawns then one realizes the whole universe is consciousness. The dualistic view is possible only in ignorance. At the dawn of Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana there is only non-dualistic view in the midst of duality because the whole universe is consciousness. Thus all the contents of the universe are also consciousness. Thus form, time and space are mere illusion created out of consciousness. If the form time and space are consciousness than the experience birth, life and death also consciousness.
Thus one has to make duality into Nonduality by a perfect understanding
of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ in order realized the ultimate truth
or Brahman or Christ.
That is why:
Gospel Thomas logian 22:- Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants
being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”
They said
to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”
Jesus said to them, “When you make
the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the
above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the
same, so that the male not be male nor the female is female; and when you
fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and
a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in
place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”
With lots of love
Santthosh.
