Meher Baba on the Triune nature of the Godhead
Tom Hickey
In God Speaks, Meher Baba discourses on three "states" of the
indivisible Unity of God. The first state is the Beyond Beyond God,
of which nothing can be said. In the process of knowing itself, this state
of God knows, "I am Everything." This absolute knowledge, "I am Everything,"
is the Beyond state of God as Infinite Consciousness. But to be Everything,
this Everything must also contain Nothing. So in knowing himself as everything,
God also knows himself as Nothing. From this Nothing that is (maya
literally means "that which is not") springs all worlds that appear to
be in finite awarenesses. Thus, the Nothing apparently engenders all, sustains
all and eventually dissolves all into itself. On attaining knowledge of
the Nothing (Nirvana as Emptiness), one instantaneously realizes the Everything
in the state of Infinite Consciousness (Nirvikalpa Samadhi). Most
attain this on dropping the body in their last lifetime (videha mukta)
and remain in this state without regaining consciousness of creation, which
is after all, "less than Nothing," so nothing is lost. However, because
some of the Realized have further duty to perform in the cosmic schema
of things, they "come back" to embodied consciousness of creation while
maintaining Infinite Consciousness. These are the Perfect Ones (jivan
mukta), who "embody" the three states of God as an indivisible Unity
while seeming to act as men and women. Of these a few have the role of
Perfect Master (sadguru). The Avatar is the direct descent of God
into human form without going through the process of evolution and involution.
Tom Hickey
Stages
on the Path - the spiritual ascent and higher states of consciousness
according to Meher Baba
Meher Baba on the Triune nature of the
Godhead
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