Of course we live in one world. Only I see it as it is,
while you don't. You see yourself in the world, while I see the world in
myself. To you, you get born and die, while to me, the world appears and
disappears. Our world is real, but your view of it is not. There is no wall
between us, except the one built by you. There is nothing wrong with the
senses, it is your imagination that misleads you. It covers up the world as it
is, with what you imagine it to be—something existing independently of you and
yet closely following your inherited, or acquired patterns. There is a deep
contradiction in your attitude, which you do not see and which is the cause of
sorrow. You cling to the idea that you were born into a world of pain and
sorrow; I know that the world is a child of love, having its beginning, growth
and fulfillment in love. But I am beyond love even.
~Nisargadatta
1. A person looks at what appears to be and manipulates it
as it thinks it should be, creating a belief for this in its blindness of what
is.
2. One may look at what appears to be and sees what is,
creating a mythology, a magical reality, for this appearance in that loving
light.
3. The former is black magic utilizing the illusion of past
and future. The latter is white magic in the manifesting transformation now.
4. All persons are black magicians—some better than
others—like a game of playing cards—deuces aces jokers jacks and queens—then
there are the ones who learn to be the trump card.
5. There is only awareness and self-awareness. Like the God
of Gods knowing “it” is the God of Gods.
6. And this appears to the mind within and of the process to
be an evolutionary universe of space-time, in which it is an object, a body of
space and a mind of time, the body-mind.
7. But awareness being self-aware is spontaneous and
integral as is.
8. So in this mythic seeing of a world within myself, my
self-awareness appears to be a reflexive universe in which awareness is intent
on this self-awareness, descending into, and then ascending from, the material.
9. The human being is the omega of this universal process,
withdrawing from the wave of the material into the sea of being. Thus a person
is the necessary confusion of this crashing wave, self-conscious yet not
self-aware.
10. The spontaneous action of awareness being
self-aware—when the person sees one is being and not the body—this is the end
of the world as a person knows it, “dying” before “dying.”
11. Awareness being self-aware is not only spontaneous as in
relation to the time of space-time, but integral as in relation to the space of
space-time.
12. Such a magical reality balances conditioning and truth,
person and being, alpha and omega, samsara and nirvana, appearance and reality,
duality and unity. As nondual.
13. In bringing this magical reality into being, I redeem the world.
