If you play ‘hide & seek’ with a bunch of good friends, who are also really good at hiding, once they all break out and find their good hiding places, it can be frustrating & excruciating to run around trying to discover every one of their hiding spots…while at the same time being such joyous fun every time you come upon one of them and both of you jump up & down with glee!
And of course, when it comes to ‘really big things’ like Universes, where’s the best place to hide something. Right in plain sight!😂
“Torture” is totally a human-ego judgment word, and cannot absolutely cannot be applied to (what appears to be) the Divine Expression. Unless you are one of those arrogant humans (there’s about 8 billion of them:-) who believe your ‘mind’ (which is not only infinitely limited, but doesn’t even exist:-) can actually suss out the meaning of this Creation - ”That never actually arose” - Ramana Maharshi, Tony Parsons, Sri Nisargadatta, Adi Shankara and a few other not-so-arrogant humans:-)
As one of those highly-presumptuous human egos, you can call it anything you want…we can’t stop you/
You can call it an actual created universe…even though it isn’t…just an appearance.
You can call it Nothing appearing to manifest as Everything…except that infers time & space, when in fact Nothing/Everything are actually happening simultaneously, in No Where.
You can call it The Divine Lila.
And you can believe, foolishly, that ‘something’ needs to, or is searching to, get back to Itself…when in fact there is only the One Whole, and it’s still complete and Whole.
Just don’t call it “torture.” Makes it sound like “you” (ego) know something you absolutely don’t…and can pass judgement on something “you” absolutely can’t.:-)
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In the context of nonduality, does the world exist?
It most certainly does exist, at least it does exist in my physical and mental experience and understanding. How could the world not exist?
Nonduality simply means that different things are not separate; they are just different parts of a singular whole.
Opposites do not exist in a vacuum, alone, without their counterparts.
Self and Other exist, but they do not exist as separate things. They exist together, as two parts within reality.
Reality is by definition a real thing. And the world is reality. It exists.
I am part of the world. I exist. However, I do not exist independently, I only exist with my opposite, Other.
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LM
The Writing of the Autobiography was Prophesied Long Ago
The writing of this work had been prophesied long ago. One of the seminal figures in the renaissance of yoga in modern times, the revered nineteenth-century master LAHIRI MAHASAYA (1828–1895), had foretold: “About fifty years after my passing, an account of my life will be written because of a deep interest in yoga that will arise in the West. The message of yoga will encircle the globe. It will aid in establishing the brotherhood of man: a unity based on humanity’s direct perception of the One Father.”
Many years later, Lahiri Mahasaya’s exalted disciple SWAMI SRI YUKTESWAR related this prophecy to Sri Yogananda. “You must do your part in spreading that message,” he declared, “and in writing that sacred life.”
It was in 1945, exactly fifty years after Lahiri Mahasaya’s passing, that Paramahansa Yogananda completed his Autobiography of a Yogi, which amply fulfilled both of his guru’s injunctions: providing the first detailed presentation in English of Lahiri Mahasaya’s remarkable life, and introducing to a world audience India’s age-old science of the soul.
excerpt from . . . AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI: One of the world’s most acclaimed spiritual classics – SRF link
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