#ultimate reality

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

White Sands, Nevada, USA, 1952 | Ernst Haas :: [Mateo :: @eyeonaxis_]

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“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something from us, and we must give it, and all we may control is the spirit in which we give it and the ultimate end which the giving serves.” ― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

[respite-in-god]

Non-Duality

When you look at any object, you see everything else, too.

If you look at a book, you're looking at the trees its paper is made from, and the ecosystem from which the tree came; the fine machinery it took to make it, the oil extracted from deep underground that coats its dust cover as plastic.

You're looking at the hands the book was designed to fit into, the eyes that the inks were designed to be perceived by, and the mind that the language is meant to be interpreted by.

Every attribute about the book was not caused by anything internal to the book; the book has no inherent existence of "book-ness." Even the book itself is made of innumerable small things (fibers), which themselves are made of innumerable even smaller things (atoms), and even those are reducible to even smaller things (quarks, bozons, subatomic strings; the limits of technology continues to find smaller things). Nothing is irreducible: How much of the book must be ripped out before it's no longer a "book?" The temporary configuration of these innumerable parts is called a "book," but no essence of "book" is keeping the parts together. Since books are temporary, its source must also be temporary, therefore its source is not ultimate reality. The book does not exist independently of anything else in the whole world. Everything in the world determined the book's existence.

That's what is meant by "dependently arisen." And things that are dependently arisen are compared to illusions or dreams, and are not "real," just temporal reality. The condition for ultimate reality is that it is unchanging and can't be destroyed. Only this can we put absolute faith in. To put faith in the temporal is to be in a constant state of insecurity, because it can't be depended upon to stay the same and stay forever.

To delineate one object from another -- one part of the whole reality from another -- is our own interpretation imposed on reality. Because everything is arisen from everything else, with no independent sources, how can anything be divisible? Nothing can be separated from its source. Can you separate a flame from the spark that ignited it? Can you separate a person from their own mother's and father's conception? Can you separate your vision from your eyeballs? A sound from the air it's carried on?

To separate one part of reality from another is to suppose there are two separate universes. But what can contain the two universes except the unity that contains them both, which would still by definition be the whole universe? There can only be one Whole; the Whole of all wholes. And because its existence cannot be set apart from non-existence, it is Hole. That which never existed cannot become non-existent. That which never existed cannot become existant. Ultimately reality has no birth and no death, and therefore no time and no change. This is the Void

[turiyatitta]

The Undeniable Pulse of Divine Ecstasy

Bliss is not an abstract concept, nor is it an illusion crafted by desire. It is a living, breathing pulse that reverberates through every fiber of existence, touching both the seen and unseen layers of being. This is not mere emotion; it is a force, an electrifying current that courses through the body and beyond, illuminating the vastness of consciousness itself. A moment of true bliss…

The Undeniable Pulse of Divine Ecstasy

[doubtspirit]

Samhara Kali trampling Shiva. Chromolithograph by Raja Ravi Varma काली देवी राजा रवि वर्मा की पैंटींग

[life-in-the-freefall]

[eyeamthat]

We ourselves are large-scale complex instances of something, both objectively physical from the outside and subjectively mental on the inside. Perhaps the basis of this identity pervades the world.

Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos

[vethox]

Maha Sadashiva ultimate reality 

[yoga-onion]

Hindu Mythology & Deities

- Hindu deities (2)-

Vishnu

Vishnu, also known as Adideva literally translated as 'the primeval god', is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. 

The "preserver" in the Hindu triad (Trimurti), Vishnu is revered as the supreme being in Vaishnavism as identical to the metaphysical concept of Brahman that connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe, also identical to Atman means inner self, spirit, or soul. 

He is notable for adopting various incarnations to preserve and protect dharmic principles whenever the world is threatened with evil, chaos, and destructive forces, chiefly through his avatars, particularly Rama and Krishna. His appearances are innumerable; he is often said to have 10 avatars—but not always the same 10. Among the 1,000 names of Vishnu (repeated as an act of devotion by his worshippers) are Vasudeva, Narayana, and Hari. The appearance is a dark blue to black complexion, with 4 arms, earrings in the shape of sharks, a garland of flowers hanging from His neck, honey bees flying around it symbolise the verses of the YajurVeda. Mantra is "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya". His Vahana (vehicle) is Garuda.

インド神話と神様たち

−ヒンドゥー教時代からの神々（２）–

ヴィシュヌ

ヴィシュヌは、文字通り「原始の神」と訳されるアディデヴァとも呼ばれ、ヒンドゥー教の主要な神々の1人だ。 ヒンドゥー教の三神一体の「維持者」であるヴィシュヌは、最高の普遍的な原理、宇宙における究極の現実を意味するブラフマンの形而上学的概念と同一であり、また、内なる自己、精神、または魂を意味するアトマンと同一であるとして、ヴィシュヌ派では最高の存在として崇められている。 また、ヴィシュヌは世界が悪の脅威にさらされたとき、混沌に陥ったとき、破壊的な力に脅かされたときには「維持者、守護者」として様々なアヴァターラ（化身）を使い分け、地上に現れるとされている。ヴィシュヌのアヴァターラのうち有名なものではマハーバーラタのクリシュナやラーマーヤナのラーマが含まれている。 ヴィシュヌの姿は無数にあり、しばしば10のアヴァターがいると言われているが、必ずしも10のアヴァターが同じとは限らない。ヴィシュヌの1000の名前の中には、ヴァスーデヴァ、ナラヤナ、ハリなどがある。 偶像としては、ヴィシュヌは通常青い肌の色で4本の腕を持つ姿で描かれ、サメの形をしたイヤリング、彼の首からぶら下がっている花の花輪、それの周りに飛んでいるミツバチはヤジュル・ヴェーダの詩を象徴している。 マントラは「オーム・ナモー・バガバティ・ヴァスデバヤ」、ヴァーハナ（乗り物）はガルーダ。