The Personal, Impersonal and the Absolute
What is the nature of Enlightenment, Awakening, Consciousness, and so forth? Many people seek some 'other' state, a 'higher' state or anything other than what is here. But as far as knowing what that is, many don't have much of a clue. We will try to describe in a fairly simple and straight-forward way, the nature of our Existence. In the diagram below, you see three categories - A. B. and C. in what is our version of the classical Ocean-Wave analagy : C. is represented as the All, the Absolute, the Ocean of Infinite Godhead, etc. B. is the Water of the Individuating and individuated wave A. is the form, the surface of that individuated wave. Everything, without exception, is part of, a manifestation of, an arising of the infinite ocean, C. Arising from the waters of the ocean, though never different from it, nor ever totally separated from it, is the wave, B. The 'form' and/or surface of that wave is the 'personalized' aspect or A. A. + B. is the