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Lightnings. Ramana Maharshi. Different Paths of Reality

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I do not teach only the doctrine of no birth (ajâta), I approve of all schools. The same truth must be expressed in different ways adapted to the different capacity of the listener. The path of ajâta says: "There is only one reality. There is no birth or death, there is no beginning or end, there is no sâdhaka (one who practices a spiritual path) nor mumuksha (one who seeks truth), nor mukta (liberated one), neither slavery nor liberation. The only thing that exists is the One."

Some find it very difficult to understand this truth and ask: how can we ignore this solid and consistent world that we see around us? They are instructed to focus on the state of dreaming and are told: "Everything you see depends on the one who sees it. Regardless of the one who sees it, nothing is seen." This is the path called drishti-srishtri, or path of perception and creation. In this path it is said that one first mentally creates the world and then sees what his own mind has created. To those who do not understand this way either, it is said: "In the beginning, God created all things."

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Em said…
Oh what a Delightful reimagining of how that final phrase has been interpreted and understood all my life. “In the beginning god created all things”, is this the same as that initial action within me, the spontaneous feeling of Universal Will then? Or rather how I interpret this feeling through my thinking and feeling it then becomes “something” I create? I hope this makes sense.
March 21, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Oscar Enrique Muñoz said…
Great questions, Emily!
The spontaneity of the Volitional Soul, the so-called “Will”, is the spontaneity of Awareness. The image that this Volitive Soul produces in your Emotional Soul and in your Intellectual Soul is the appearance of the world as a Creation-Representation for an observer, for the Subject, that is, for the Awareness-Force. When we say “In the beginning God created all things,” we are distancing ourselves from Awareness, we see it as something alien, and therefore God is something alien from that point of view.
From the point of view of the experience of the “particular human”, from the perspective of the masks, there is a triple unfolding.
1. First we go from “God created” to: “Awareness creates and I am Awareness.”
2. Then, from “Awareness creates and I am Awareness” to: “the created and the creative Awareness are One and the same thing.”
3. Finally, we move on to “I am neither the created nor the creator, the Universe (the Universes), any action-force of Existence, is the shadow of My Essence.”
March 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Em said…
Always a sincere thank you for explaining this over and again in different ways, Oscar. This feels like then, to ask "Who Am I?" is to start with faulty premise of an "I" and then an "Am" as you write in your book. So then, if I ask "What is true?" do I start from a the same faulty premise of a "What" which is a formation made by the "I" and "truth" is...? I have gotten lost inside my own question. haha.
March 21, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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