Q & A: The Absolute vs. the Warmed Up Absolulte
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From a resident of Colorado:
Q: Rupert Spira describes Being as unmodified, indefinable Allness without content of any kind. He attributes the appearance of multiplicity, diversity, and infinity to Mind’s activity.
James Neal, on the other hand, describes some of God's attributes: Effulgence, Light, Illumnation, Radiance, Tenderness, Vitality, Brightness, Righteousness, Peace, Beauty, Joy, Gladness, Glory, Perpetuity, Intelligence, Loveliness, Omnisience, Omnipresence, Omni-action, Omnipotence, Redolence, Nobility, Symmetry, Perfection, Immortality, Authority, Lucidity, Sublimity, Resplendency, Cause, Individuality, Effect.
How can attributeless Allness “without content” of any kind have qualities or attributes?
A: This seeming contradiction is reconciled by an analysis from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in a 1979 discussion with theoretical physicist Dr. Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, Cambridge University, England.¹
After watching the video, you may enjoy the following summary:
Maharishi explains that, for the purpose of discussion, there are two aspects or ‘levels’ of the Absolute:
one is inwardly directed, dedicated to Itself
one is outwardly directed and ‘open’ to the relative ‘outside’
Maharishi draws a diagram and says it is actually more correct to ‘divide’ every point in the Absolute into the two levels of inward and outward directions because every point is the Whole.
Vedic Science shows that the Absolute is all Wholeness. This Wholeness is the structure of Total Knowledge, the Source of all the Laws of Nature. These Laws of Nature, however, actually reside ‘above’ the Absolute in the ’relative’ section of the diagram.
Maharishi points out a very beautiful Principle: when one wants to run in a particular direction, one creates momentum by drawing back. We see that in the tendency to draw back in this inward direction, we find a kind of momentum in the opposite outward-directed side. There is some sense of ‘push.’
So we see that one aspect of the Absolute is unconcerned with anything. On the other hand, there is some warmth of the movement in the outer direction. With this warmth, Maharishi says, we can see a line of distinction between ‘outer-directed’ and ‘inward-directed.’
This line of distinction is found in two tendencies of every particle: inward moving and outward moving. There is a kind of concrete value of action. By this, he means that while there is no action in the Absolute, the Principle of action can be located in this tendency of moving and not moving.
These tendencies of moving and not moving are the two tendencies of the non-changing value of the Absolute.
In summary:
We see two principles in the Absolute.
One is to hold on to its non-changing value,
and the other is to inspire
creativity in its own structure.
Thus we see that the Holistic structure of Pure Knowledge gives us two distinct tendencies: Purusha (Pu) and Prakriti (Pra).
We can now see that the qualities of pure consciousness, Prakriti, equate to the spiritual attributes Neal describes. These qualities are indeed aspects of the Absolute value of Life, beyond ‘the field of opposites.’
See also: Qualities of the Unified Field
Waves of the Ocean
[1] 1/2 Maharishi is asked by Dr Brian Josephson about the Nature of the Absolute, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJqM_2Q6LwI 11.23.2024
