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From:
God As The Creator, God As Good, and God As The
Real”
(pages 107 – 117) From THE ALETHEON – Adi Da Samra
Excerpt
When the mechanics of egoity are transcended in
self-understanding, then it becomes obvious that
life (or conditionally manifested phenomenal existence) is
simply a play of opposites. Neither
Good (or creation and preservation)
nor Evil (or destruction) finally wins.
Conditional Nature, in all its planes, is inherently a
dynamic. The play of conditional Nature, in all
its forms and beings and processes, is not merely (or
exclusively and finally) seeking the apparent
Good of self-preservation (or the
preservation and fulfillment of any particular form,
world, or being), nor is it merely (or
exclusively and finally) seeking the apparent
Evil of self-destruction (or the
dissolution of any particular form, world, or
being). Rather, the play in conditional Nature
is always in the direction of perpetuating the dynamics of
the play itself and, therefore, polarity,
opposition, struggle, alternation, death, and cyclic
repetition tend to be perpetuated as the characteristics of
phenomenal existence. Therefore, the play of
conditional Nature is always alternating between the
appearance of dominance by one or the other of its two basic
extremes. And the sign of this is in the inherent struggle
that involves every conditionally apparent form, being, and
process.
The struggle is this dynamic play of
opposites, but the import of it is not the absolute triumph
of either half. Things and beings and processes arise, they
move, they are transformed, and they disappear. No
conditionally apparent thing or being or process is
ultimately preservednor, by contrast, is there any
absolute destruction. Cosmic Nature is a
transformernot merely a creator or a
destroyer.
To the ego (or present temporary form of being),
self-preservation may seem to be the inevitable
motive of being. Therefore, a struggle develops to destroy
or escape the dynamic of conditional Nature by dominating
Evil (or death) with Good (or
immortality). This ideal gets expressed in the generally
exoteric and Occidental (or more materialistic) efforts to
conquer conditional Nature via worldly knowledge
and power. However, it also gets expressed in the generally
esoteric and Oriental (or more mystical) efforts to escape
the plane of conditional Nature by ascent from materiality
(or the Evil of the flesh) to Heaven
(the Good God above the realm of conditional
Nature).
When the ego (or self-contraction) is
understood and transcended, then conditional Nature is seen
in the Light of Reality Itself. And, in that case, the egoic
struggle in conditional Nature or against conditional Nature
is also understood and transcended. Then life ceases to be
founded on the need to defeat the dynamic of conditional
Nature via conventional knowledge, power,
immortality, or mystical escape. The world is no
longer conceived as a drama of warfare between
Good and Evil. The righteousness of
the search for the Good as a means of
self-preservation disappears along with the
self-indulgent and self- destructive
negativity of possession by Evil. In place of
this dilemma of opposites, an ego-transcending and
world-transcending (or
cosmic-Nature-transcending) equanimity appears. In that
equanimity, there is an Inherent Self-Radiance That
Transcends the egoic dualities of Good and
Evil (or the conventional polarities of the
separate self in conditional Nature). That
Self-Radiance Is the Free Radiance of egoless Love. In That
Free Radiance, energy and attention are inherently free of
the ego-bond, or the self- contraction, or the
gravitational effect of phenomenal
self-awareness. Therefore, dynamic equanimity,
or the free disposition of egoless Love (rather than the
egoic disposition in the modes of Good or
Evil), is the window through which
Real (Acausal) God may be seen (or
intuited)not in the conventional mode of
Creator, the Good, the
Other, or the Heavenly Place, but as
the Real (or Reality Itself), the Self- Evidently Divine
Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State of
all-and-All.
The ultimate moment in the play of
conditional Nature is not the moment of egoic success (or
thetemporary achievement of the apparently positive, or
Good, effect). The ultimate moment
is beyond contradiction (or the dynamics of polarized
opposites). It is the moment of equanimity, the still point
(or eye) in the midst of the wheel of
Natures motions and all the motivations of the born
self. The Truthand the Real Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-Stateof self and
cosmic Nature is Revealed only in that equanimity, beyond
all stress and bondage of energy and attention.
God As The Creator, God As Good, and God As The
Real”
(pages 107 – 117) From THE ALETHEON – Adi Da Samraj
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