The illusion of separation
The great illusion is separation, the belief that I am a the body mind individual and separate from everyone else and the world. Self realisation is the discovery that I am not what I have believed to be. The realisation I am a unique expression of consciousness expressing itself through its own power to create. In the process of self realisation the illusion of separation dissolves and the truth of what we are and the reality of this world is revealed.
When we believe we are separate we suffer. We feel alone, disconnected and separate from others and the world around us. There is a deep longing to feel connected, to be loved and accepted. Our sence of separation creates wars, arguments, addictions, un happiness and a feeling of lack. The illusion of separation is created by the mind the sence of I or ego in sanskrit it is called aham kara which translates as I maker. What we identify with is what we believe to to.
The expression of consciousness appears to us as forms which the mind labels with names, through this process individualisation occurs. This causes the illusion of separation and we over look the reality that what appears to be separate is in fact one consciousness expressing itself through its own power to create which appears as unique expressions of the one. Bodies, emotions, thoughts, trees, mountains, animals, plants, oceans, the sun, the stars and the moon, the entire universe is consciousness’s creation. There is no separation all is a unique expression of the one consciousness. That is what you are consciousness and its unique expression.
To understand this let’s look at nature when we look at an apple tree we see an individual tree separate from its surroundings. We see form consisting of colour and shape and the mind labels that form a tree. We call that form a tree and by doing so we can distinguish that form from other forms appearing around it like the sun, rain, soil, birds, me (this body mind), clouds, sky ect. When we take a closer look the reality is that the tree is not separate from its environment in fact it is made of its environment and completely dependant on its environment. The apple tree is the seed, soil, rain, the sun, oxygen, birds, bees, flowers, apples, leaves, a trunk and branches. The tree only exists because of its environment that appears separate from it due to the naming of the unique expressions. Without all the other forms there would be no tree. The tree grows from a seed, grown from the soil and is nourished by the rain, the energy from the sun, the birds that build their nests in its branches, the bees that pollinate its flowers, its apples that feed animals, and humans. We breath out what the tree breaths in and we breath in what the tree breaths out, where is there any separation?. The tree is nourished by the rain the same waters that we drink to stay alive. We eat the apples from the trees that our bodies are made of. The same soil that feeds the trees makes that same food we eat using the same energy from the sun, where is there any separation? It is only the mind that creates the illusion of separation by labelling different forms.
Our strong sence of self is the belief I am this body mind separate from other bodies and other forms but if we take a closer look our body is created by the sperm and egg from the mother and father, grown in and made out of our mothers body. Our body in the womb isn’t separate it is the mothers body it is part of the mothers body. When we are born it appears that the baby is separated from the mothers body when the umbilical cord is cut. Yet the Mothers milk feeds the baby, the same food grown by the soils, rain and sun feeds the mothers body that feeds the babies body. The same air the mother breaths is the same air the baby breaths that the trees breath out, our bodies are made of our environment. We believe to be separate only because the body appears to be separate due to the amah kara the identification with the body mind and the naming of that unique expression. The reality is one consciousness.
One energy vibration of different frequencies perceived as different forms through the bodies 5 sence’s and labelled by the mind appearing in and made of consciousness. This is the reality of the great illusion of separation. All that is experienced all that is known is energy vibrations appearing as the universe. Consciousness is the great illusionist through its power manifest the universe and creates the illusion of separation through the power of the mind. This is the greatest mystery of life.
Tantra is a path to self realisation, through its methods we discover the truth of what we are and the reality of the world. Dissolving the illusion of separation.
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