We, human beings,
shall be able to comprehend the only permanent reality in the Cosmos, God, when
we become successful in transcending either the sixth plane or the seventh. We
become successful in realizing the Omnipresent Spirit of God, our relation to
the most Supreme Godhead, the Infinite and Eternal Will of God that encompasses
every living existence, the presence of the Infinite Being in the inanimate and
finally the Ultimate Unitarian plane of oneness with the Divine Mother. Until
that moment when we don’t realize that the only fulfillment is found in God and
transcend the seventh plane to abide
in God forever, our spiritual aspirations of being one with the Infinite and of
transforming ourselves into Godlike beings shall only be a distant dream. The
spiritual planes below the seventh can
make us aware about the various aspects of the most Supreme Godhead but
that Ultimate spiritual peak of uniting with God and being endowed with the
superhuman qualities of God and being God ourselves is reserved only for the
few who have that intense and deep burning desire to reside in the secret place
of the most high. The state of oneness with God is the state of
Enlightment and the inability to grasp
the totality of God and to be superstitious about the Non-Existence standpoint is to
be extremely deluded.
“ Where is God
to be found and what is God?” Let us get into details about this matter.
“The
Lord pervades everything.”
-Isha Upanishad
God is Omnipresent.
By the Omnipresent Spirit of God, we normally understand that God is present in
each animate creature and every inanimate things and He is everywhere you may
go. In other words, the entire totality of the Cosmos, every particle in the
Universe, from the smallest living particle, the God particle or the Higgs
Boson to the most gigantic planet in the Universe is composed of God. The
Omnipresent aspect of God, one of the three primary aspects of God, is realized
when we transcend the third spiritual plane. Therefore, God is present in every
breath you inhale, he is present in every molecular structure of the shoes you
wear, he is present in the deepest ocean bed of
the Pacific, he is present in the Divine bark of your dog as well as in
the thundering Divine roar of an Airbus
380 as it soars through the sky. It is because whether the object of attention
be animate or inanimate, the principle structure of all vegetation, animals,
humans and non-living things like a piece of rock is a composition of
electrons, atoms and molecules. The varying degrees of composition and the
atomic make-up of all things, animate or inanimate, give them different shapes,
look, colours and sizes. The basic underlying feature of all living and
non-living things is the same and they only have different degrees and
distribution of composition of atoms that make them stand apart from the rest
of the world. So we now know the principle structure of all creation is exactly
the same and since every piece of creation is pure consciousness or God, this
is the sole reason why God is anywhere and everywhere you go. If we can
comprehend ourselves as God after transcending the seventh plane, why cant we
have the eyes to see God in a lifeless rock because common sense about their
composition tells us that there can be no lines of difference drawn between a
God achieved soul and an inanimate rock. This is why Mr.Dipak Chopra says if we
could see the entire Universe through the eyes of a physicist everything is
essentially the same. The realization of the third spiritual plane enables us
to comprehend the Omnipresent Spirit of God in the sub-atomic make-up of
distribution of electrons and protons in an oxygen molecule hovering above
Seattle, in the atomic make-up of a drop of water on Mars and in the molecular
make-up of a tooth of a Siberian Tiger preying on the Siberian territory.
Therefore, anywhere you may go, the term to
denote the object of attention for a third awareness state spiritual traveler
is -God.
“Brahman is pure consciousness.”
-Aitareya
Upanishad
The structure of
the entire manifested Universe is pure consciousness and the entire Cosmos in
its totality is realized as Brahman or God by God realized beings. Every living
and non-living things is composed of only and only pure energy. The human
senses convert this and that bundle of pure energy and turn them into a
material existence of shapes, look, colour and sizes. The different habitating
material existence of the material world is made up of varying degrees of
energy which sets the world apart with a green landscape, the distant horizon,
the chain of the long and winding snow capped Himalayas, the sparkling star
studded sky etc. Pure energy or in more understandable terms - Pure
Consciousness or God. Pure consciousness is present in the pebbles and stones
that lie lifeless on the banks of a river, in the green vegetation of a
vegetable garden, in the wild animals that roam freely in the dense jungles and
in the human beings who are the lucky ones who can tap onto their reservoir of
pure consciousness, awaken it and establish themselves as spiritually elevated
beings. The varying degrees of pure consciousness in a lifeless pebble, vegetation,
animals and human beings classifies them into the unintelligent, not-so intelligent, semi
intelligent and the intelligent categories. Even though there may be
classifications of varying degrees of compositions of consciousness, everything and everyone is
essentially the same- Pure consciousness or God. According to Mr.Dipak Chopra,
everything present in the Cosmos is only the raw material of the Universe and
they are undergoing the process of creation-sustenance-renewal for the great
leela or play of God to take place. Whether there may be a renewal process of
these living and non-living things and
may be renewed back into the same invisible
microscopic particles like the
moment before the creation of the Cosmos, they are still pure consciousness or
God because they were created, sustained for a while for Gods leela to take
place and gets renewed once their Karmic influence and bondage is over.
“I am Brahman.”
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
“You
are that-Brahman.”
-Chhandogya Upanishad
After one
transcends the seventh plane, one gets grounded with all the attributes of God
Himself. As the qualities and characteristics of God gets infused in a person
who has been successful in transcending the seventh plane he has been able to
transform himself into a speck, a concentration of God Himself in this vast
expanse of Universe. That is why a Rama or Krishna were acclaimed far and wide
as living Gods. A fully awake soul is none other than the Supreme Reality
himself. This feeling of wholeness and completeness of the totality of God is
what makes one Ultimately abide in God forever or Unite with Him. When the
spiritual qualities and the awareness of a fully awake soul is similar with
that of God or when there are similarities in awareness of a fully awake soul
and that of God there is the realization
of oneness and unity with the most Supreme Godhead. As there are no major
differences in attributes of a fully awake soul and that of God one is God realized,
he has attained a oneness with God and he has transformed himself into a
speck or a concentration of God Himself
in this Eternal dance of Creation. Therefore, the phrase-“I am Brahman.”, “You
are that- Brahman.”
“The Atman is Brahman.”
-Mandukya Upanishad
The Atman or
the soul is Brahman. “Why?” It is because the soul with a regular spiritual
exercise from the behalf of the aspirant starts transforming himself from the
sub-conscious to the conscious and finally to the superconscious level of
consciousness. As stated earlier, it is the process of spiritual awakening of
the soul from the dawn of the superconscious level and finally beyond the
seventh plane that grounds a person in total oneness with God. When there is
oneness with God or when the fully awake soul of a complete spiritual being has
striken a synchronistic balance with that of God, then we can affirm that the
fully awake Atman or soul has become God himself. Therfore the phrase-“The
Atman is Brahman.”
“All this manifested
Universe is the Supreme Brahman.”
-Mundaka Upanishad
God was there in
the form of invisible microscopic particles before the Cosmos was created and
will be present after the entire Universe dissolves back into the same unseen
particles. As we already know, God pervades everything and everything is pure
consciousness or God. The Universe we see today as a collection of asteroids,
meteoroids, stars, suns, moons, habitated planets and innumerable galactic
systems took shape and came into creation from the collision and reaction of
these microscopic particles which is in reality pure consciousness or God. We
all know that a something cannot come out of
a nothing, that if God exists today in the form of the entire Cosmos it
is because God existed before the entire manifested Universe was created and
that for every effect there has to be a cause. Don’t we all think God had a
cause or a Divine plan for an effect to come into effect and that was how the
entire Cosmos was created and came into being? The entire living reality of the
Cosmos is God because God is present anywhere one may go and every grain of
sand, every piece of rock, the rocky mountains of the Himalayas as well as
every planet that exists in the entire Universe is pure consciousness or God.
“All this manifested Universe is the Supreme Brahman”, whether they be in the
form of invisible particles before the Cosmos came into being, the state of
affairs after the great dissolution process of the Universe and at the moment when the Cosmos sustains for a
while for the great leela or play of God to take place.
Let us say a short
prayer and see how it describes God.
“Here and now, God
is. God is around me as a vibrant living presence and as me at my innermost
level of being. God is the reality and substance of everything I see, touch and relate to moment-to-moment.”
“EVERYTHING AND NOTHING EXCLUDED IS GOD.SIMPLE AS THAT.”
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