Philosophy Of Liberation Interfaith

Author(s): Paramhansa Maharaj, Donald Howard, Veena Howard
Publisher: USA Santmat Society of North America

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With this revelation one will be able to go beyond the concealments of Causal Nature imposed on the creation and the Self, and then will meet with the Supreme and experience direct knowledge of the Supreme Sovereign God.
Through intellectual knowledge gained through the study of the Upanishads, the study of the literature of Indian saints, or logical thinking, one will draw the conclusion that the Essential Nature of the Supreme is unmanifest, beyond the senses, without beginning or end, unborn, imperishable, without time and space, omnipresent and in all and beyond all. As the space within a jar is a part of the space of the vast sky so also the individual self is part of the Supreme Sovereign. Essentially they both are one. However, the Supreme Sovereign is not concealed, but the individual self, the part of the Supreme which dwells in the body, is concealed. Direct knowledge of both is not experienced because of the concealments of the four Realms of Qualified Lower Nature: Gross [Physical, Material], Subtle, Causal and Supra-Causal.
The Creation comes into existence when the wave (vibration) for creation occurs in the Supreme Sovereign. Therefore, it is essential to acknowledge the existence of this wave or vibration in the beginning of the creation. Further, it is impossible to have vibration without Sound. In the beginning of the world, that there was Sound is certain. Thus the progression of the creation continues to proceed from the subtle to the gross.
The realm of creation in which we live is the Gross Realm. Above the Gross is the Subtle Realm; above the Subtle is the Causal; above the Causal is the Supra-Causal, and above the Supra-Causal is Kaivalya, the Realm of Oneness (Pure Conscious Realm). The existence of these four realms is as fixed as the Pole Star.
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