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Articles: Festivals | Maha Sivaratri
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As a matter of fact, we are seeing God even now. But we are not able to recognise Him. The world that we see before us is God Himself. There is no such thing as the world. The world does not exist. It is, only a name that we have given to the Supreme Being. Call the dog a bad name and then hang it. Who asked you to call it a world? Why do you give such a name? You yourself have given it a name and say, 'Oh, this is the world!' You can call it by another name. You are free to give any name to it. Really there is no such thing as a world. It does not exist. The world is only a name that we give to a distortion created in the perception of our consciousness due to its isolation into the subject and the object.
To come back to the analogy of dream again, the mountain that we saw in dream was not a mountain; it was only consciousness. There was no mountain. But it looked like a hard something in front of you, against which you could hit your dream head. You see buildings in dream. It was consciousness that projected itself into the hard substance of bricks and buildings, mountains and rivers, persons and animals, etc., in dream. The world of dream does not exist. You know it very well, and yet it appears. What is it that appears? The consciousness itself, projects itself outwardly, in space and time created by itself, and then, you call it a world.
Likewise, in the waking state also the Cosmic Consciousness has projected itself into this world. The world is Cosmic Consciousness. The Supreme Divinity Himself is revealed here in the form of this world. As the dream world is nothing but consciousness, the waking world also is nothing but consciousness, God. This is the essence of the whole matter. So you are seeing God. I am right in saying that. What you see in front of you is God only. It is not a building. There is no such thing as a building. But we call it a building due to an error of perception, due to ignorance and due to not being able to analyse the situation in which we are involved.
We are caught up in a mess, in a paradox, in a confusion and the confusion has entered us, entered into the bones, as it were, into the very fibre of our being and made us fools that we are today. It is to awaken ourselves from this ignorance and to come to a state of that supreme blessedness of the recognition of God in this very world, that we practise Sadhana. The highest of Sadhanas is meditation on God.
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