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« on: June 19, 2016, 01:34:21 PM »
The Human Being as Creator Awakening in his Cosmic Creation:
The Vedas tell us that plants have feelings and animals have minds. (Aitreya Aranyaka II.3.1).
Other creatures are also aware. They want to live and experience happiness just as we do.
But we humans do have an additional capacity of intelligence that affords us a better potential to
know the Reality or Self behind the universe, should we choose to look for it.
Through the human being, the Creator can become consciousness in his own creation. God, the
Creator is seeking to manifest through us, so that we can know his own creation from within, with
very creature realizing 'I am all' and 'I have become this entire universe.'
The Self alone was there in the beginning. There was nothing else that winked. He thought,
'I will create the world.'
Having created the worlds, he thought, 'How can this universe exist without me? How shall enter into it?'
Having opened the top of the skull and through that means he entered it. He saw the Person (Purusha)
as God (Brahman). (Aitreya Upanishad I.1.11; III.11,12, 13.)
The human being is meant to serve as a vehicle for the entire universe to become self aware. We are
the instruments of God to perceive his creation through the eyes of his creatures. This is the great
fulfillment that cosmic intelligence has planned through the long evolutionary struggle. The whole
purpose of the evolution of the soul, which is also the evolution of life, is the soul's creation of a body
through which it can realize God or the Universal Consciousness. This is achieved with the human body,
through which we can practice meditation and find God within ourselves.
We are all sons and daughters of God. We are created in the image of God, which is a power of light
and consciousness! We are all meant to become God who is our origin and our home. That Divine
Being dwells within us as our true Self, calling us to remember our greater nature as All..
The ancients referred to this Cosmic Person as the 'Person in the Sun', as well as the 'Sun of Suns'
(Isa Upanishad 6,7.) and 'the God of Gods', meaning the consciousness principle inherent in light.
The main dwelling for God in the external world is the Sun as the source of light and life. Similarly,
God dwells within us as soul, the source of life and feeling within our hearts, our inner Sun:
The Cosmic Person, the size of a thumb, dwells in the middle of the heart like a flame without smoke.
He is the Lord of what was and what will be. He is today and he is tomorrow. All this is That.
(Katha Upanishad 4.13.)
contd.,
Arunachala Siva.