Dr Hislop ... Seeking Divinity
San Diego, California, Feb 4Th, 1986
My wife and I have a home in Ensenada district in MEXICO. WE HAVE LIVED there quite a few years now. A chap I know there recently put up a television dish in his yard and said he had entertainment twenty-four hours a day. So he sits in front of his TV and he is very happy.
He limits himself to three cans of beer a day and to one litter of vodka a week. From early morning unit late, he sits watching that TV. He gets stations from all over the world with his long-range antenna.
You know, from one point, we might say he is not really a sensible man. It is not very constructive way to use one's life. But you know everything really goes circle. Things go up to their limit and then they come back---and life does that, too.
It goes out into manifestation and experiences everything that manifestation can bring, and then slowly and gradually it comes back from whence it came back. Back home again back to the center.
Swami says, in fact that this cycle of progressive evolution, where eternal, individual consciousness takes itself as an object is the moment when duality begins. With duality there is creation--endless creation.
THE BEGINNING OF DUALITY
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SWAMI SAYS that creation is endless, and that the first expansion itself of indivisible consciousness into duality that is taking itself as an object, manifest as granite, as a rock. Then He says that rock dies and reborn as a tree. After all that experience, three dies and reborn as as animal; After that long, long experience, animal promotes itself to the status of human being.
Beyond that, there are a total of seven steps on the journey out into manifestation, out into multiplicity; and then back into heart into unity. There is rock, vegetable, animal, human, superhuman, cosmic and the divine.
Our friend in Mexico is still engaged in that outward flow of life into manifestation. So, what is the harm? You know can last for millions and millions of years and millions and millions of incarnations. All perfectly legitimate. There really is no reason for anyone to take up spiritual life and try to find the central truth about things, until he feels in himself that in pulse to do it.
Proselytizing people and urging them to take up a spiritual life, is only effective if they are ripe for it. Then you perhaps the greatest good deed that is possible to do for any body. But in general, the world is not ready for that, will never be ready for it. Because there is a constant coming into manifestation of life as it advances through this progressive evolution.
OM SAI RAM
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