Scale

 

240122: Shree: Scale

There is no other reality than that of You. Regardless of what I think about priorities and other issues, to think and feel You is the most important beginning, middle and the end of each day and night.

All responses about a situation depend on its “existence”. Who generates existence and who endorses it? I feel currently that all situations of people are real because I have endorsed their existences through vibrations/ movement/ motion/ mind and body. This “I” is also a product of that endorsement. Hence all characteristics of this state of existence (such as change, fluidity, fear, dilemma, impermanence, relationships, evaluations, judgments) are what I endorse subsequently! All these signals are what I generate and are what leads to existence of manifestation! I remaining in this state of existence then, You are currently too far for me!

I want to have You near to me. This will happen IF I start to acknowledge Your existence. As much as I consider manifestation to be a reality, I MUST accept and feel Your reality. Once I endorse this reality, then my mind starts to attract Your grace and transforms into You (non motion, no change, beyond space and time, subtle, no vibrations, desireless, blissful, unconditional).

So “I” am currently a combination of motion and non motion. Or rather some say that motion is just a superimposition on non motion. It is non motion that actually is absolute existence, which has been apparently modified into motion or manifestation. Thus what we are is only “apparent” reality -  property of the medium itself.

Silence this medium, be unconditional, concentrate on non motion, and focus at one point and I become God.

Symbolically it can be also said to be a “zoom out” effect. When one zooms in to a “unit” of existence, then there is no vibration present; there is no space; there is no character; there is no property; there is no force or form. If I zoom out from this unity, then the SAME phenomenon appears as space + force + form (something solid and responding and changing). THUS, depending on the ability of the mind to change its scale of perception, I become motion or non motion.

Architectural symbolism may also help. Scale of opening and the space it defines. Depending on my scale, I perceive an opening and space. The same opening can become a “jali” or perforated screen if its scale is reduced with only tiny voids of space and light filtering from it. Go on increasing the density of perforations and we perceive a “wall” that apparently may seem not to have any pores and obstructs light coming through it. If I become extremely tiny (perhaps like a single cell), then the same wall may appear space to me! Apply this logic on any form and any experience like light or smell or taste or liquid. At a quantum level, it is only space! So an interesting question may arise to you that – is the “wall” really present in front of me? The answer is that its form depends on its existence I create in my mind! I can see it as a wall or I can vanish it and see it as just space! (This is the same conclusion of quantum mechanics).

However let us take things to the level of psychology also. It is understood that by focusing and becoming a unit of existence, I will therefore see only “space” existing everywhere and no forms or forces. It ALSO means that I will only perceive a blissful feeling as that state of existence. If I start to feel some force or a form, then my feelings also start to become dependent on change and they fluctuate.  

So finally, existence (and hence perception and reality) is all about scale.

Hari Om