Letter # 41: “The Unity In The Diversity, And Vice Versa”.
Despite being at the top-of-the class in physics at university, I couldn’t fathom the logic of Einstein’s E=MC2; I took it on faith. The equation proves the interrelations of energy, mass, time and distance. Yet, it’s not the last word. Physicists are still striving to create a theory that would explain everything - a “general unified theory”.
Human understanding travels in the basic vehicles of science and art. Great scientists have endorsed both means of understanding. Kekule, on defining the ring shape of the benzene molecule around 1865, said that he had come to this understanding of the ring after he had a day-dream of a snake biting it’s own tail. Dreams are the metaphors of the unconscious.
The Mystics and Masters have arrived at a deep understanding of creation through intuition. Jesus’ equation for the “general unified theory”’, or in other words the “Unity”, is the “Father”; Moses’ is “Yahveh”; Mohammed’s is “Allah”; and Gurus Nanak’s is the generic “Naam” or the “Name”. The Unity takes Diverse Names and Diverse Forms, yet in that Diversity it still remains the Unity. In the 15th Century AD, Lord Caitanya established his sublime doctrine “acintya bheda abheda tattva” – simultaneous oneness and difference. These are heady philosophical ideas. The movie “What The Bleep Do We Know” depicts the “heady” notions of modern physics.
The late Srila Prabhupada explained in his translations that the Spiritual does not need to be created, for it is eternal. Only the material needs to be created. The material is an expansion of the Supreme Lord. Since the Supreme Lord is Spiritual, all His expansions are, by logic, Spiritual. Hence the material creation is also Spiritual.
Lord Krishna states: “I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penance of all ascetics.” BG 7.9 (You could also interpret that latter as “I am the thinking of all the scientists.”) So when you look around, all is actually Spiritual. And when you see another person, that person is the Spiritual Energy of the Lord, just as you are and everything else is. If that person or you are “misbehaving” towards each other or anyone else, then the consciousness and energy are being perverted due to forgetfulness of the True Nature of Things.
According to the Masters we’re all One and the One is All. If you can’t fathom the logic, take it on faith.
Human understanding travels in the basic vehicles of science and art. Great scientists have endorsed both means of understanding. Kekule, on defining the ring shape of the benzene molecule around 1865, said that he had come to this understanding of the ring after he had a day-dream of a snake biting it’s own tail. Dreams are the metaphors of the unconscious.
The Mystics and Masters have arrived at a deep understanding of creation through intuition. Jesus’ equation for the “general unified theory”’, or in other words the “Unity”, is the “Father”; Moses’ is “Yahveh”; Mohammed’s is “Allah”; and Gurus Nanak’s is the generic “Naam” or the “Name”. The Unity takes Diverse Names and Diverse Forms, yet in that Diversity it still remains the Unity. In the 15th Century AD, Lord Caitanya established his sublime doctrine “acintya bheda abheda tattva” – simultaneous oneness and difference. These are heady philosophical ideas. The movie “What The Bleep Do We Know” depicts the “heady” notions of modern physics.
The late Srila Prabhupada explained in his translations that the Spiritual does not need to be created, for it is eternal. Only the material needs to be created. The material is an expansion of the Supreme Lord. Since the Supreme Lord is Spiritual, all His expansions are, by logic, Spiritual. Hence the material creation is also Spiritual.
Lord Krishna states: “I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire. I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penance of all ascetics.” BG 7.9 (You could also interpret that latter as “I am the thinking of all the scientists.”) So when you look around, all is actually Spiritual. And when you see another person, that person is the Spiritual Energy of the Lord, just as you are and everything else is. If that person or you are “misbehaving” towards each other or anyone else, then the consciousness and energy are being perverted due to forgetfulness of the True Nature of Things.
According to the Masters we’re all One and the One is All. If you can’t fathom the logic, take it on faith.
God Bless; Allah Hu Akbar; May The Forces Of The Universe Bring You Harmony; Hare Krishna; Radha-Swami; and Nanak Naam Chardi Kala Tere Bhane Sarbat Dha Bhalla.
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References: "The Holy Bible" Online version; "The Koran" (As translated by SV Mir Ahmed Ali 2005 ISBN 0-9761870-0-0); "The Bhagavad Gita As it Is" by Srila Prabhupada (ISBN 0-89213-268-X); "I Am That" Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ISBN 0-89386-022-0; The Dhammapada ISBN-10:1-84483-344-5; The Sacred Sukhmani ISBN 81-7205-098-4; Wikipedia.
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