NOTHING BEYOND US

NOTHING BEYOND US

We are all the way depending on ourselves while we imagine that we are depending on others. We are interacting with ourselves while we are convinced that we are interacting with others. We are praying to ourselves while we believe that we are praying to God. All our associations are mental images which are us-bound and not extending anywhere beyond us. Such dissociation is simply not possible. It is like an elastic rubber band that stretches to its limit before contracting to its unstreched configuration under the action of the restoring force. Thus are all our associations and interactions which are bound to ourselves as their gravitating focus and cannot leave its field. Even God-realisation is, thus, Self-realisation and no more, for no God can exist beyond ourselves. This is pristine pure Vedanta, now articulated afresh in modern linguistic and scientific terms. Comprehend this and rest in peace.

Written by Sugata Bose