Meditation, then, is communion with the truth of the spirit. When Jesus says that we will see him he means that we will see the way, the truth and the life which he himself claims to be. We will enter into and become one with that Light of lights. The way, truth and life will be our own as the Light of lights, that is, the Consciousness or Awareness that is the true Self.
John's Gospel proclaims that the world can't see him nor know this truth from its vantage point. On the path of meditation, the way of meditation, one abides in that vantage point beyond the world while being able to be "in" the world. And yet, as Jesus points out, one need not be "of" the world. Nor does one need to abide in the state of bliss, of Ananda. One knows it. We know the Christ within us, the Christ which brings us to oneness with God. Jesus himself points to this special "knowledge" when in John's Gospel he says, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." It is herein that we step out of ego consciousness as one's self and find ourselves in that Awareness, that transcendental knowledge behind which no mental consciousness can go.
Such awareness, Self-Awareness, is absolute transcendence. It is the untranscendable vantage point of all vantage points, the perspective beyond context and point of view. All phenomena of world, mind, body, emotions and willfulness pass through the Self in their impermanence as mere phenomena through the living eternal presence of the silent, still knowing Self. The self-love felt here is the presence of God, the peace that passeth all understanding, yet a knowledge not to be transcended, yet accompanied by the beauty, joy, freedom and final fulfilment, the promised salvation. Here now in your very presence.
No comments:
Post a Comment