FROM THE FINITE TO THE INFINITE
The purpose of the personality is to use it to dissolve it and merge in the impersonal. This is the end of evolution to which Nature is striving through apparent delimitation of the infinite within finite bounds, this encapsulation within flesh and form. Truth at its highest is impersonal and without attributes but all endeavour, necessarily being within the realm of the universe of name and form, have to be this progressive refinement of conception, this traversing from the bounded to the boundless, this movement from the ego-centred self to the Self that transcends all sense of embodied being.
The personality is an apparent cover over the infinite expanse of the Being through some inexplicable phenomenal method that defies reason or any logical sense, yet, is very much there for all to experience even as they evolve towards its extinction in Self-realisation. Like poetry has its metric measure, music has its melodic parametric bounds and rhythmic cycles, science has its governing natural principles, so also does spirituality have this inexplicable limitation of personality to travel through to the eventual liberation in the impersonal being.
Art, literature, music and science all traverse along finite pathways observing definite laws towards their undefined end where laws break down and the infinite unfolds, transcendent and lawless. So also does the Spirit, now apparently encapsulated in personality and struggling to escape to infinite horizons that beckon, evolve to its expansion limit before falling in on itself to involve to its nullity, its infinitesimal form whence it dissolves in the Being to absolute and eternal freedom that had been only clouded and covered up but had always existed, undiminished and unalloyed.
Such then is the life of this phenomenal being, a delusive dream of apparent personality pushing on against universal opposition to its eventual end in the perfected realisation of infinite freedom.
Written by Sugata Bose
The purpose of the personality is to use it to dissolve it and merge in the impersonal. This is the end of evolution to which Nature is striving through apparent delimitation of the infinite within finite bounds, this encapsulation within flesh and form. Truth at its highest is impersonal and without attributes but all endeavour, necessarily being within the realm of the universe of name and form, have to be this progressive refinement of conception, this traversing from the bounded to the boundless, this movement from the ego-centred self to the Self that transcends all sense of embodied being.
The personality is an apparent cover over the infinite expanse of the Being through some inexplicable phenomenal method that defies reason or any logical sense, yet, is very much there for all to experience even as they evolve towards its extinction in Self-realisation. Like poetry has its metric measure, music has its melodic parametric bounds and rhythmic cycles, science has its governing natural principles, so also does spirituality have this inexplicable limitation of personality to travel through to the eventual liberation in the impersonal being.
Art, literature, music and science all traverse along finite pathways observing definite laws towards their undefined end where laws break down and the infinite unfolds, transcendent and lawless. So also does the Spirit, now apparently encapsulated in personality and struggling to escape to infinite horizons that beckon, evolve to its expansion limit before falling in on itself to involve to its nullity, its infinitesimal form whence it dissolves in the Being to absolute and eternal freedom that had been only clouded and covered up but had always existed, undiminished and unalloyed.
Such then is the life of this phenomenal being, a delusive dream of apparent personality pushing on against universal opposition to its eventual end in the perfected realisation of infinite freedom.
Written by Sugata Bose
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