God lies within you, as you.
This idea of the divine being our very own nature is from the non-dual view of reality.
So God isn’t some man up in the sky, but it’s the essence-nature of living things.
They say that God is perfect. So our essence-nature is perfect divinity.
I’d say that’s a pretty cool spiritual idea, to be honest. I’d say it’s one of the most important spiritual ideas that I’ve ever contemplated.
The Masters of Tantra Had This Realization
Would be cool to know who are the people who are the originators of this idea. It really is something truly mind-blowing to contemplate.
I bet it was some spiritual master who lived a long time ago who first realized it.
The Mandala might be a symbol of the innate perfection of divinity, due to it’s symmetrical nature.
I think it’s really awesome to think about that my very own nature is perfect divinity. It somehow makes life a lot more glorious.
Glorious Realization
If our essence-nature is God, and that of all living things, it means that there is nothing that is not God.
The Divine is not some being that exists outside of our very own selves, some God in the sky. Rather, God is our Self.
In each one of us, there is the majestic, radiant beauty of The Divine, and if we contemplate this idea, we might start to see the divine in each one of our peers, friends and so on.
We are all a manifestation of Divine Consciousness. This realization can be experienced if we just are open to it. No need to believe it, just being open to the possibility of this being true.
So we can start by recognizing our our own inner divinity. Then we can proceed, and start to see The Divine in all things.
To See a World In a Grain of Sand
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
by William Blake
This poem is beautiful and it somehow was brought to my mind by this idea of seeing The Eternal in everything. From the smallest beings to the most wonderous animals, for example ants and whales.
They really are quite magnificent if you look at them and think about their nature. I once thought the same thing about trees and nature in general. It really is majestic.
Let It Sink In
So I would like that you let this idea really sink in and let it become clear for you in your mind, that everything is an expression of the one Divine Self.
Creating art about it might be a cool thing to do, to further assimilate the installation, if you know what I am saying.
Writing poetry about it can be a cool practice, as is creating music and visual art. You get to pick and choose for sure. Another one is just being and playing with the idea, perhaps.
For me, this idea of everything is divine has become more real as I’ve became more experienced with spiritual practice and also contemplation of it. It has transformed my life in a big way through the experience of the the mentioned truth indeed.
That’s why I think it’s a worthy topic to dive deep into.
All that exists, throughout all time and beyond, is one infinite divine Consciousness, free and blissful, which projects within the field of it’s awareness a vast multiplicity of apparently differentiated subjects and objects: each object an actualization of a timeless potentiality inherent in the Light of Consciousness, and each subject, you and I, the same plus a contracted locus of self-awareness. This Creation, a divine play, is the result of the natural impulse within Consciousness to express the totality of it’s self-knowledge in action, an impulse arising from love. The unbounded Light of Consciousness contracts into finite embodied loci of awareness out of its own free will. When those finite subjects then identify with the limited and circumscribed cognitions and circumstances that make up this phase of their existence, instead of identifying with the transindividual overarching pulsation of pure Awareness that is their true nature, they experience what is called “Suffering.”
To rectify this, some feel an inner urge to take up the path of spiritual wisdom and yogic practice, the purpose of which is to undermine their misidentification and directly reveal within the immediacy of awareness the fact that the divine powers of Consciousness, Bliss, Willing, Knowing and Acting comprise the totality of individual experience as well-thereby triggering a recognition that one’s real identity is that of the highest Divinity, the Whole in every part. This experiential insight is repeated and reinforced through various means until it becomes the nonconceptual ground of every moment of experience, and one’s contracted sense of self and separation from the Whole is finally annihilated in the incandescent radiance of the complete expansion into perfect wholeness. Then one’s perception fully encompasses the reality of a universe dancing ecstatically in the animation of it’s completely perfect divinity.
I got this poem from my teacher, Hareesh Wallis.
I am currently studying Classical Tantra with him, and it has been a blast thus far. He truly is a master yogi.