Understanding the world of Forms.

Understanding the world of Forms.

All the forms ( material world ) we see are reflected in our minds, each looking different.

However, what we don’t realize ( because our focus is only on the outside world ) is that each shape reflected in our mind is created from our own consciousness. ( just like all bangles are gold only ).

Whether we see a rose or a tree, we utilize our mental energy to recreate them in our minds.

Just like we create so many different characters in our dreams, each looking different from the others, and yet, they all use the same our own mental energy. (Mental energy is gold, and dream objects are bangles with various shapes )

And energy ( gold ) itself is formless.

So – conclusion –

1. The mind effortfully creates all the different shapes we see, creating a duality.

( These are my words, but to reach your truth, you must meditate. )

Now, let’s discuss the second part of the statement – “In reality, all shapes are the same essence ( presence ).”

Would anyone be able to explain, guess?

Why?

This is one of the deepest discussions one can have in spirituality, but it will help a serious sadhak immensely.

So, we already talked about it.

1. The mind effortfully creates a duality of the different shapes we see.

All thoughts have specific “shapes.”

A thought of Coke has its own space in your mind, and so does a thought of the Himalayas.

All shapes are like bangles, each with a different shape, ( and making bangles is effortful ) but the gold ( the consciousness ) the bangles are made from, is shapeless and formless. ( Nirgun, Nirakar ). ( effortless, non-doer, Akarta )

The second part is –

“All shapes are the same essence ( presence ).”

Just as Coke and the Himalayas have shapes in your mind, time also has space.

The sense of time can exist only in the world of matter ( because we created the concept of time based on matter – the earth roaring around the Sun ).

So, if we want to transcend the mind and all thoughts, we must also transcend the time.

But, we are so heavily drenched with the concept of time that we cannot even imagine an existence without time, and yet it does exist – the consciousness, which exists and is timeless ( eternal ).

The consciousness is timeless because it is out of the mind.

This is where a major revolution happens.

With the disappearance of time, past, present, and future also disappear.

They were only fictitious divisions of the eternal consciousness that cannot be divided. ( How do you divide sky? )

With the past and the future gone, only the present remains.

And that’s why the statement says –

“ In reality, all shapes are the same essence ( presence ).”

If you deconstruct all the thoughts, you will only find “presence “.

( If you deconstruct all the bangles, you will only find Gold. )

And that enignatic state is pure Shunyata.

No vichar.
No Vasanas.
No Smruti ( memories, past )
No Kalpana ( fantasies, future ).

= Samadhi.