Page 402 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

What is reality? Why are we here? These are questions many people fail to consider anymore in this age of quantum mechanics, computers, and high-tech gadgets. I think that everyone except me knows these, or they think the questions have become irrelevant. However as a true seeker I am the kind of person who would consider such questions and is amazed by things other people take for granted.
Let us start out by taking a look at a description of reality put forth by mystical philosophers. For thousands of years, mystics have said that there is ̳One Energy‘ in the Universe, that the Universe and everything in it is the play, the dance, and the vibration, of that ̳Energy‘. Underneath the seeming multiplicity, they say, everything is made of the same substance. This Energy, they say, is everywhere, and at all times. This principle is sometimes described as Omnipresence, or God. The Hindus call this principle Sat, and it is everywhere, making up everything of past, present, and future. The mystics in addition to noting that this one energy is omnipresent also said that this ̳Energy‘ is aware of itself being everything and everywhere and at all times: that it is
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