The Universe is God Enjoying Itself in the Mirror of Consciousness
The Creator is full. God is Fullness itself. The void is not empty; it is the
plenum. It contains everything in this universe embedded, encoded, in seed form
within Its infinite imperishable, immutable potent potency of potential. It is
expanding - bulging, exploding-imploding, bursting, expanding-contracting with
Its own infinite unending energy, power, and Free Will.
It enjoys everything about Itself, absolutely everything – from angelic
ascension to demonic Armageddon. The creator is All of it, every single
expression of and in Its Totality, each vibratory wave generating countless
forms - the good, bad, and the ugly. The Oneness enjoys all.
This eternal expansion and contraction of Its fullness is the nature and source
of Its need to create the universe over and over – and when it runs-down, begins
to decay, and rots beyond redemption, the Creator destroys Its manifested
holographic external Self in all Its differentiated forms, thoughts, and
feelings … so that IT can be recreated again and again, from yuga to yuga, in
one kalpa and another, throughout the endless cycles of time - world without
end. So it is and so it always will be.
The Creator is “digesting” and savoring Itself.
Think of the confluence of forces that impel a young man or woman to leave
everything they have ever known, the safety of family and friends, home and the
‘known’ - and jump off the proverbial abyss into the unknown. One day they just
pack up and sail away, catch a plane or train, hit the road. The far horizon
beckons and they don’t look back.
Impelled by forces they can scarcely identify, they seek to express and fulfill
their own urging talents, god-given gifts, and potentials. They seek the journey
of chance. They seek the revealing to themselves of their own hidden energies.
Those secret longings, silently hatching, demanding, emerging in their heart and
soul, drive them on into dark and distant concealed mysteries.
So it is with God. We are the fragment-portions of that Oneness seeking to
express the seed-germ of our own essence in time and space. Our lives are the
expressions of the Creator enjoying, consuming, digesting Its infinite possible
potential. That is what this ‘play’ is all about. God as us is enjoying Its vast
spectrum Self in all Its inconceivable, unnamable, unlimited perfection in the
external extruded temporal illusory hologram, as the ‘appearance’ of what can be
conceived, named, and limited into differentiated perception.
This universe is nothing but that terrible, mad, horrendous, magnificent,
splendid JOY of God’s Love for Its own Being.
If we can tune into that, and harmonize the frequency of our consciousness with
that, even for a second of earth time, then we come to the understanding that
all questions disappear. In God consciousness there are no questions – only
stark raving bliss-filled JOY and the endless ecstasy of Supernal Love. The
question of ‘why’ vanishes into Oneness. This universe is just God’s play.
The universe is God admiring Itself in a mirror. This universe is the reflection
of the Oneness in the mirror of consciousness – the ultimate expression of “I
am”! Life is the ecstatic Love of
the Highest Self, the Oneness, for Its SELF as all Selves, as all of us, all
beings, everyone and everything – the All.
Related Sanskrit words:
Aham: “I am” – there are two “I”s, the lower small personality self, the
individual ego. This small “I” is deluded by the power of MAYA and thinks that
it is separate from the Oneness. The higher “I am” Self, the Paramatman, is the
supreme Self, the Absolute, the all-pervading Oneness, God consciousness.
Brahman: the ultimate reality, the Fullness, from the root word brih meaning “to
expand.”
Abhasas: Appearances, caused by Maya.
Ac[h]alam: Unmoving, immovable.
Ac[h]intyam: Unthinkable, inconceivable, surpassing thought.
Aksharam: Imperishable, unchanging.
Ananda: Bliss.
Anirdeshyam: Undefinable, inexplicable, incomparable.
Avyaktam: Unmanifest, unseen.
Avyaya: Eternal, imperishable.
Bindu: The compact mass of spiritual power or energy (Shakti) gathered into an
undifferentiated point, ready to manifest as the universe.
Hrydaya: The Inner Heart, the Light of Central consciousness which is the
substratum of all manifestation; within each of us and simultaneously
ubiquitous.
Sarvatragam: all pervading, omnipresent, “everywhere going.”
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Pratibimba: The Theory of Reflection.
This universe is found in the reflecting mirror of God Consciousness. The mirror
is the absolutely independent Free Will (svantantrya) of God. Unlike an ordinary
mirror, in God Consciousness only the reflection exists and not anything that is
separate and reflected. Whatever God wills appears in the mirror of his
consciousness. In reality, only the reflection exists and not anything that is
reflected. The universe is contained in seed form in God’s Free Will.
Excerpts from KASHMIR SHAIVISM, The Secret Supreme, Revealed by Swami
Lakshmanjoo, edited by John Hughes; The Universal Shaiva Fellowship, 1985, 2003.
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