CURRENT REALITY V/S ULTIMATE REALITY

PHYSICALITY WHICH WE SEE AROUND US is nothing but a manifestation of that Self or Consciousness or simply the energy of this existence. Thus energy is the ultimate reality but the physical forms which we are in and which see around us are the current reality. 

This ultimate reality is the underlying substratum of everything in this existence and is eternal whereas the current reality or the physical forms appear and disappear and hence fleeting. The Self or the ultimate reality is like a cinema screen. The screen is always there - before the show; during the show and even after the show. Pictures come and go but the screen is always there. Also the pictures cannot arise and exist separate from the screen. 

The physicality is thus temporary and hence taking physical or current reality as ultimate reality is an illusion or ‘maya’. A picture imagining its existence separate from the screen is ignorance. A wave imagining its existence apart from the ocean is ignorance. A letter assuming its existence apart from the paper on which it is printed is ignorance. Can a picture arise and exist without a screen? Can a wave arise and exist without the ocean? Can a letter exist apart from the paper on which it is printed? No. It cannot. 

Our identification with the body or physical reality gives rise to what we know as ego or individuality. This individuality, meaning, existence apart from the ultimate reality, is living in ignorance; living in our own imaginary or make-believe reality. That’s the reason that those on the spiritual path are advised not to be misled; not to be deceived; not to be influenced and not to be guided by the appearances or the current reality. Because living life in identification with the current reality or physical form is a bondage whereas living life in identification with the ultimate reality is freedom. 

Spirituality is to go beyond physicality and realize the ultimate reality. The only way to realize this is to become the screen and not a picture on the screen. Because if you become a picture, which is living as an individual; living as an ego, then you will be tossed around by the circumstances of the life and live a miserable life. But if you become the screen which is to allow the existence to happen through you (through your screen) then you will not only remain untouched by what happens but you will finally merge with the screen or the existence which is liberation or mukti. 

Meditation is learning to distance from current reality and becoming aware of one’s ultimate reality. End of meditation is samadhi which is what becoming screen or ultimate reality is. Spirituality is a journey from being a picture to becoming the screen. 

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