(Organized religion divides, spirituality alone unites. Goal is to be very quietly spiritual and thoughtful, instead of publicly religious. A hard core atheist with honesty, thoughtfulness for and a sense of giving for others is far higher and more evolved than any of the religious lacking these qualities).

As the sole source substance (the substratum) within all forms of creation, being the sole reality in all things....... YOU cannot be the impermanent body, mind, ego or senses since.......

THERE IS NOTHING ANYWHERE THAT
IS NOT THE INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS

Therefore again YOU cannot be the limited mind nor the limited body nor transient ego which both depend upon the Infinite consciousness for their own existence.

Since the Infinite alone is all that there really exists as the source within ALL forms of creation, the Infinite alone is YOUR real Self, hidden by design to your immediate perception behind the screen of ignorance created by the noise of the wandering mind, ego and limited senses. On the reality of the Infinite alone being YOUR real Self and the One reality in all forms of existence, here are insights from various paths........

There are three classes of devotees. The lowest one says, "God is up there," and he points to heaven. The mediocre devotee says that God dwells in the heart as the "Inner Controller." But the highest devotee says: "God alone has become everything. All things that we perceive are so many forms of God." (p. 292-293 From The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna)

Everything the Lord Himself is. There is no second. When that Lord Himself causes us to speak, we speak just as He wants us to speak. * Sri Guru Ram Das Ji - Sri Guru Granth Sahib (SGGS) Page 39

"For in him we live and move and have our being"... (Christianity - Acts 17:27-28)

The One Lord is within thy home (body) and the One without (all else). He Himself is found within all places. * Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji - SGGS page 45

Whatever extension of the world that is visible, that all is Thou O' Lord. * Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji - SGGS page 51

What is, is the sole reality - which is neither created nor destroyed. It is that infinite consciousness that is perceived by the ignorant as the universe. (Yoga Vasishtha 3.52)

We and our existences are nonexistences. Thou art Absolute Existence showing Thyself as perishable things. (Jalaluddin Rumi)

Wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah (Qur'an 2:116)

"There is One body and One Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Christianity - Ephesians 4: 4 - 6)

Though we speak much we cannot reach the end, and the sum of our words is: "He is the all." Where shall we find strength to praise Him? For He is greater than all His works. (Christianity - Ecclesiasticus 43: 27-28)

(The Tao) is always present and always available...

If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. (22)

That Self or Infinite Consciousness is from the ordinary point of view the Creator, the Protector and the Overlord of all, and yet from the absolute point of view, in reality being the Self of ALL It has no such limited roles. (Yoga Vasishtha)

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space:

All are transient expressions of the Tao. (33)

(Hua Hu Ching)

The One Lord is within thy home (body) and the One without (all else). He Himself is found within all places. * Guru Arjan Dev Ji - SGGS page 45

On account of the indivisibility of consciousness (the higher Self), I am you and you are me, but the indivisible consciousness Itself has become neither I nor you ! When the wrong notions of 'you' and 'I' are given up, there arises the awareness that there is neither you, nor I, nor everything: It alone is everything. (Discourse of King Rama's Guru Vasishth from Yoga Vasishtha)

"Mind, Buddha and living beings do not differ from one another." (Sosan - Korean Son/Zen Grand Master 1520-1604)

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two. (p. 28)

(The Unfettered Mind)

He who recognizes God within himself and is pierced through with his name is satisfied. * Guru Nanak Dev Ji - SGGS page 60

The foolish and ignorant man recognizes not the Creator who is within his self. * SGGS page 86

The fact that all ceated things seem to have existence and being in their own right is because we can neither conceive nor see, with our physical eyes, the Force of God which is in the created world. Were the eye able to see and conceive the vitality and spirituality in each created thing, which flows through it from it's divine source, then the physicality, materiality, and substantiality of the created world would not be seen at all; because apart from the spiritual dimension it is absolute nothingness. There is really nothing in existence besides God." (The teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman)

Again, being the sole reality in ALL things, just as an ocean is within every wave and just as the sun is in all sunlight - in the same manner

THE ABSOLUTE ALONE IS ALL THAT REALLY EXISTS

ALL FORMS OF CREATION ARE NOTHING BUT THE SELF-EXPRESSION

AND SELF-EXPERIENCING OF THE INFINTE TO ITSELF WITHIN ITSELF

And the essence of all spiritual or scientific paths leading to truth (reality) can be summed up in a single word......

ONE (or EK in Hindi or Ik in Punjabi)

(by P. Singh).
© Copyright Pardeep Singh 1997.