Monday, 15 March 2010
Not only did God create the world, He made the world out of Him. And if He created out of Him, it must be He. Let's put our concentration on this. If God made the world out of Himself, what will it be? God again. A pot made out of clay is clay. The universe made out of God is God. What makes it different from God? Dualism. A clay pot has been given form. Once it has form, we give it a name. This is dualism: form and name. The form is a conception and the conception is a name called pot. Break the pot; it is gone. This is called birth and death: birth of a pot, death of a pot. In both conditions the clay remains the same. In creation God remains the same throughout.
Replace this concept with Consciousness, Light, Awareness, whatever you wish to call it. Throughout it is so. The emanation of God must be God, whether the form changes or not. This is the phenomenon of birth and death. In all the three conditions - deep sleep, the dream state and waking - you remain. It is your dream, your physical world, you in deep sleep. Throughout you are you. Only conceptions change, forms change, names change. We call this birth and death. The entire creation, preservation and transformation incessantly carry on through you, by you, in you. All is within the drama - young age, old age, death and birth.
What we call creation is changing phenomena. That is why Realized Souls say to be detached from form and name and be devoted to the essence. Do not look to the pot, look to the clay. If you identify yourself with the form and name, you will have to lament. Identify yourself with the Reality, you will not lament. Unless we are awakened to non-duality, to the Absolute, we cannot really know what dualism is. We are in the dream - action and reaction, cause and effect, form and name - and we philosophize so much that we take it to be real. That which gives us pain, makes us miserable, frustrated and wanting is dualism.
Our folly is not awakening. We want to "sleep," but sleep can be comfortable only up to some limits. Beyond that it becomes pain and drudgery, and that is the very drudgery we carry through life. When we awaken, we come back to our Absolute Truth: I am all this. How do we realize this? We must awaken from our dreams. Awakening is the answer.
© 2010 by Truth Consciousness. Excerpted from the Satsang, Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, published in Light of Consciousness Vol 11#2, from the original recorded Satsang, The Dream and the Dreamer (R-5)available on CD.
