True meaning of Neti-Neti (Neither this; Nor that)
With an instrument of limited ability, only the fragmented truth can be perceived. To realize the whole truth with totality, a perfect tool with unlimited ability is required. When our consciousness is not total, we perceive only the fragmented reality. For example, the division of time into past, present and future takes place because of our limited ability of perception, or limited consciousness. But, when we transcend to the apex of consciousness, the whole truth, whether manifested or still to be manifested, can be perceived even in the countless fraction of a moment with entirety. With the instrument of Super-consciousness the whole eternity can be realized in even the smallest possible bit of a moment. Since our consciousness is not total in our mundane life, hence we perceive only the fragmented reality in terms of past, present or future.
Even the distinction between the creator and the creation appears on account of our limited consciousness. When, we are established in Super-consciousness, we have the direct perception of creator and the creation, both being the one and the same reality. This can be understood through logical conclusion also. We all are of the view that God has created this existence. If God has created this world, including all creatures, then, what does it mean? It means before God started the process of creation, just God was there, nothing else was there except God before the process of creation God had started. Right? So, from where God must have brought the materiality required to create this world? He/she must have brought it from his/her own existence. Right? If, this is right, it means, this entire existence is nothing, but, his/her being, his/her own extension.
Man has talked a lot about God as who, how, what etc. the God is. But, again when we make any statement about God, the total reality, with our limited consciousness, that statement can not depict the whole reality. That’s why the golden rule of Upanishad says – Neti-Neti; Neither this, nor that. If you say -God is this, then God is certainly not this. And if you say – God is that, then God is certainly not that also. God is so vast, that H/She can not be defined with any limited attributes. If, God is the genesis point of the entire manifestation, then the whole manifestation is His/Her reality; all possibilities are His/Her possibility. Upanishad says-Neither tis, nor that. I say- even this and even that. Everything is the manifestation of God. Everywhere is His/Her signature. God is within every paradox; at the same time beyond all paradoxes. I depict this situation through one of my following poem titled “God- a divine polarity”:
God, a divine polarity
(6pm, June 6, 2004)
God,
it’s a divine polarity,
a boundless eternal expansion,
an expansion of expansions,
at the same time
it is contraction,
a sudden shrinking into unity,
contraction into nothingness.
It’s the infinite periphery,
at the same time,
it’s the essence of core.
What a beautiful paradox
it is!
It is a speaking,
a song of majestic silence.
It is on the one hand,
a craziness, the lunatic glory,
at the same time,
it is the height of prudence,
a profound ingenuity.
It is a painful birth,
at the same time,
a beautiful death.
It is an intense sex,
at the same time,
an innocent pious virginity.
It encompasses all contradictions,
It is the whole polarity at every count,
except in one case,
It is a pure bliss,
the boundless profound ecstasy,
the height of beatitude,
there is no polar opposite to it,
that’s the God.
In fact, God is the sum total of everything existing in this existence. Nothing is beyond God. Hence I define God through a mathematical formula as below:
Thank You.
Swami Aaron
Email: Swami.Aaron@gmail.com
www.realizegod.in, www.SwamiAaron.blogspot.com
Author of:
· A Date with God
· In Love with All Beautiful Women
· On the Wings of the Self
· The Journey of Speaking Silence
· Dancing on the Last Threshold of the Universe
· Beyond the Beyond
· Quantum Jump into God
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