All intelligence, it’s rightly said, leads to god. This is the ultimate truth — the sum of the parts and part of the whole. All things, big or small, also lead to god — because god is supreme intelligence. Where there is no god, there is no intelligence. Where there is, likewise, no intelligence, there is no god.
This relates to what philosophers describe as the ‘All-Mind’ of things — something that has been in sync with all things, from the beginning of creation, or time. It encompasses all intelligence and knowledge. You’d equate this allegory with the god of all things — right from the vibrant colours of a rainbow and the blossoming of flowers, to the flight of birds. This is unlike mere human experience which is limited and incomplete — the difference being such essential truths that we, human beings, perceive through time are quantum notations residing in the vast recesses of our mind. We could not have existed without them. Our minds too could not have existed without them. You may ‘tag’ it as nature’s balancing act — or, the symmetry of the spheres.
What makes human beings, human beings, is the power of thinking — one could relate to this elementary attribute as the ‘god particle.’ This is simply because all intelligence to keep the element ‘alive and kicking’ emanates from god’s eternal grace. This is what god in his profound wisdom bestowed and blessed us with. Philosophers call it the foundation of all divine knowledge and power.
It is not only god, but also god’s apostles — seers, prophets, teachers, gurus and philosophers — that have illustrated the essence of being spiritually awakened. Most philosophers reckon that ‘hearing’ god’s voice through the portals of our own inner self and becoming ‘godly proponents’ is the first and the most difficult step. Some thinkers also draw a paradoxical parallel — that a human being who does not use their spiritual essence, which everyone is endowed with, irrespective of one’s education, or learning, is as ‘dead’ as the dodo.
The reason is simple — god is spirit incarnate. He embodies our spiritual wisdom and is perpetual. When we invoke god’s name and speak, no matter who we are, or what our station in life, or wealth is, we will all be able to cause a deep well of wisdom to spring within us. This is the fountainhead of intelligence — this is what that gives us life. This is what that ‘ups’ our divine aptitude, along with our emotional and spiritual quotient.
It is, however, not just being immersed in the mind that endows us with knowledge, or wisdom — one that also gives us our identity. It is seeking that provides us with knowledge and wisdom to be our ‘best’ self — a self that is selfless and humble. This is precisely what that has made our seers and prophets, not to speak of great men and women — past and present — great exemplars for all time. Their boundless pool of knowledge and wisdom, through their perceptive words and writings, are open to us all. What determines the spirit of our soul is, again, dependent upon our ability to draw inspiration from such reservoirs of knowledge, for a good, noble purpose.
One thing is certain. It’s entirely up to us, therefore, to make ourselves what we desire to be. The power to do so is in your hands — of what you wish, no matter the adversities on the path to righteousness, success, or fulfilment. The reason being, one can accomplish everything one wants through the right means — while resolving problems and attaining everlasting, ‘soulful’ harmony, or unity, with god.
Have you ever thought of it? That there is no one that has grasped the scintillating depth of elevated spiritual ‘experience’ before it actually occurs. There is a profound reason why this happens — it is because the self is so mystifying that it only emerges at a juncture where the complete composition of our consciousness connects to ‘no-consciousness,’ or the ‘no-self.’ You’d think of such a point, not just as the tipping point, but a cusp where the divine begins, or where conscious awareness emerges from nothingness. You may, likewise, think of it as a state where our conscious awareness coalesces with our mind, body and spirit and takes the mystery out of the ‘not-known’ to an ‘in-agreement’ self-experience too.
What does this facet stand for? That there can be no fading away of self-consciousness before one reaches the expansive limits of human wisdom — one that leads to total, or harmonious, fulfilment. It is rightly said that any picture, or image, of our consciousness that emerges and blossoms from its foundation becomes a pleasant arrangement. It activates structures based on contexts — this is because consciousness, or self-awareness, has no real source. It also has no end. It is evidently one internal, yet eternal, phenomenon that has a purpose, even in the absence of objectives. This is precisely the reason why philosophers emphasise that all our ideas regarding the self eventually appear with their own everlasting, or ephemeral, significance — not just our origin as species — with cycles of birth and death. To paraphrase an old maxim, “Wise folk say, every beginning/Implies a new beginning./So say the trees/As new leaves flap with visible splendour/To the hidden roots they nourish/And as sun-quilted branches dream/All is renewed.”
All living creatures are, doubtless, real entities, voyaging in an interconnected, functional circle. The inference is obvious. No matter where we come from, the true nature of our self, or consciousness, is what we know — and, only as much as we have lived and actually experienced. This is all there is for one to fully understand the complexities of life through the passage of time. Well, for one who has lived righteously, the rewards are immense — because the conscious, or self, has grasped its own ultimate expanse, including nothingness.
— First published in The Himalayan Times, Nepal
