Sunday 2 June 2013

Spirit is something vital, basic and fundamental, and yet invisible and intangible

Photo: For the spirit is eternal and unmade
And not by thinking was its greatness born,
And not by thinking can its knowledge come.
It knows itself and in itself it lives,
It moves where no thought is nor any form.
Its feet are steadied upon finite things,
Its wings can dare to cross the Infinite.
SRI AUROBINDO (Savitri, Book 2, Canto 11, p. 260)
 
The spirit is something vital, basic and fundamental, and yet invisible and intangible. For example, when we say that the spirit of the painter is there in her painting, what we mean is that although what we see is a portrait or a landscape, yet some fundamental part of the painter’s personality has also entered the painting. In the same way, the universe also has an invisible presence of the Creator. It is this subtle but all-pervasive presence of the Creator in the creation that is referred to as the Spirit. The spiritual philosophy called Vedanta has an explanation for the presence of the Spirit. Before the universe came into being, the Divine was a non-material Consciousness. When the Divine decided to create a material universe, it had to first solve one basic problem: it did not have the material for creating the universe. When a carpenter makes a table, there are three components involved: carpenter, the creator; wood, the material; and table, the creation. But when the universe had to be created, the Creator had no material for creating the material universe. The Creator solved this problem by making the required material out of itself, just as the spider creates the material for its web out of itself (Mundaka Upanishad I, 1:7). Thus the Creator did not really create the creation, It became the creation. Or in other words, the non-material Creator manifested as the material universe. Hence the creation is nothing but the Creator in another form. Therefore, we do not need any further arguments to prove the presence of the Creator throughout the creation.

Om Namah Shivay.

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For the spirit is eternal and unmade
And not by thinking was its greatness born,
And not by thinking can its knowledge come.
It knows itself and in itself it lives,
It moves where no thought is nor any form.
Its feet are steadied upon finite things,
Its wings can dare to cross the Infinite.
SRI AUROBINDO (Savitri, Book 2, Canto 11, p. 260)

The spirit is something vital, basic and fundamental, and yet invisible and intangible. For example, when we say that the spirit of the painter is there in her painting, what we mean is that although what we see is a portrait or a landscape, yet some fundamental part of the painter’s personality has also entered the painting. In the same way, the universe also has an invisible presence of the Creator. It is this subtle but all-pervasive presence of the Creator in the creation that is referred to as the Spirit. The spiritual philosophy called Vedanta has an explanation for the presence of the Spirit. Before the universe came into being, the Divine was a non-material Consciousness. When the Divine decided to create a material universe, it had to first solve one basic problem: it did not have the material for creating the universe. When a carpenter makes a table, there are three components involved: carpenter, the creator; wood, the material; and table, the creation. But when the universe had to be created, the Creator had no material for creating the material universe. The Creator solved this problem by making the required material out of itself, just as the spider creates the material for its web out of itself (Mundaka Upanishad I, 1:7). Thus the Creator did not really create the creation, It became the creation. Or in other words, the non-material Creator manifested as the material universe. Hence the creation is nothing but the Creator in another form. Therefore, we do not need any further arguments to prove the presence of the Creator throughout the creation.

Om Namah Shivay.

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