THE FINAL WORD
THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-REALIZATION (Enlightenment)
Outside of The Creation, that tiny, limited area of the Self that is the mind/creative imagination of the Self, there we find the absolute qualities of Existence/True Self.
In the above image, we can easily see the entirety of existence explained, although the fact that anything exists at all is the cherry on the cake, the ultimate mystery that is Existence. As souls incarnate within The Creation, we usually identify The Self with the current physical body that we are experiencing, whereas in reality, the Self is The Eternal, Immortal, Mysterious Totality of Existence that includes:
- The Creation: place of all variety, diversity, multiplicity, souls (their karma and lives).
- The Absolute State of Consciousness: Self awareness as truth(sat)-consciousness(cit)-ananda(bliss) (satchidananda/siva/purusha) and the creative capacity (imagination/shakti/prakriti/The Unified Field) that creates The Creation
- The Absolute State of Unconsciousness (Nirvana):the complete extinguishment of self-awareness, thus nothing can be said about this part of The Self apart from it is like deep, dreamless sleep - a state of abolute unconsciousness.
Both The Absolute State of Consciousness (satchidananda) and The Absolute State of Unconsciousness (Nirvana) eternally exist, whereas The Creation periodically (due to the desire of Satchidananda to experience multiplicity) is created and then, after centrillions of years, is reabsorbed back into it's primal state but exists as a possibility in the creative imagination of the Absolute. The Creation can always be created and recreated whenever the desire for multiplicity arises within Satchidananda, thus the Creation also exists as an eternally recreatable phenomenon with the Absolute states of The Real Self.
I AM THAT
When an enlightened soul says "I am That", then they have achieved union with the Totality of Existence. They know and experience the reality of The Self as the Eternal, Immortal, Mysterious Totality of Existence. This achievement is not so difficult and just requires considering the ideas you are currently studying within section seven of the HELM site, and meditating deeply upon the reality of The Self as the Eternal, Immortal, Mysterious Totality of Existence. Is this really so difficult? It appears odd to begin with, but the more you study and meditate on the matter, you will understand the logic and truth of the matter and in time you will make the realization our own. You will become enlightened.
FINALLY!
There is but one Self and that is the One Eternal Immortal Being - Totality of All Existence.
Established in the harmless sattvic mode, identified as the One Eternal Immortal Self, experience, without attachment, the variety, diversity, and multiplicity of the Creation (including the individual souls), knowing that the Creation is a tiny dreamlike phenomenon that is eternally repeatable and eternally available for you - the Real Self - to experience.
FINALLY! FINALLY!
Let us give the final word to the Rishis of the Ancient Vedas:
"NETI, NETI, AHAM BRAHMAN ASMI!"
Not the individual soul, not the Creation, I am the Eternal, Immortal, and Ultimately (sublimely familiar) Mysterious Totality of All Existence!
Existence, the Tao, The Self, The Totality
CAN NEVER ULTIMATELY KNOW ITSELF OR WHY IT EXISTS
and remains
THE ETERNAL (SUBLIMELY FAMILIAR) MYSTERY
The Tao that can be spoken is not the real Tao
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be
named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and
Earth.
The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Ever
desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees the
manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all
mystery...
