How can we call what is ineffable?
There is no inconvenience in continuing talking about God, if we can transcend the theist version and the ultra-mundane connotations that it entails. To continue talking about God as we have done in the last millennia, like a superior entity, anthropomorphic, distant, almighty, creator and judge, it does not favour – rather, it makes it difficult – the full identification.
Certainly, the devotional, loving path – the bhakti path – sweetens the roughest edges of this concept of God, favouring the feeling of protection, of refuge in the Father, the Mother or the Lover – according to each one –, but to achieve identification it will be necessary to transcend the duality that this experience of love still entails.
If we talk about God referring to the Whole, the Absolute, the Being, What It Is, Tao, Tathātā o Parabrahman –the jñana way–, perhaps we will have less difficulty in realizing that we are an inseparable part of It, although, in this case, a greate dose of abstraction will be needed to sense that we are the same and unique nature.
The lay proposal ‘Universe’, can also be useful for those who feel most comfortable talking in terms of energy and vibration. But it will also require a great depersonalization to transcend the awe before the infinite space-time where it seems that we have arrived, we have moved and we will leave it.
Beyond of life-death
Sat Dharma incorporates LIFE as a synonym for What It is, to bring it closer to our daily lives and feel it in unison to our breath and heartbeat, as an effective and practical demonstration of realizing that it shapes us and gives us existence.
LIFE refers to the Primordial Nature, One, Non-dual, outside or above which there can be nothing else. We write it like this, in capital letters and without any article that determines it, to point out the ineffable transcendence that corresponds to it, beyond the relative concepts of biological life, organic life, personal life, as well as the life-death paradox that concerns us so much.
Naturally, almost without having to consider it, we feel alive. We perceive how life runs through our veins and in the whole world around us. Confirmed now by science, ancient cultures already indicated that vital energy not only vitalizes inert matter, but also makes it up –due to the equivalence between both–, and that all living beings, animals, plants or minerals –yes, stones too-, form an interdependent whole.
A good starting point –within everyone’s reach– to intuit first and then realize that we don’t go through life, but we are an inseparable part of LIFE.
A good starting point to realize that –just as we call night at the part of the day when darkness reigns, but at all times we see a cyclical continuity–, life and the part of life we call death are nothing more than the continuity of LIFE in motion.
A good starting point to discover that we do not have our own existence and that if we are –if we exist–, it is because we are LIFE.
Although we haven’t perceived yet.
