Page 78 - Wisdom Unfurled

all limitations imposed by the conventional wisdom of religion (aesthetic approach) and philosophy (logical intellectual approach). It is a grand and magnificent sweep of the original pure thought which lands us at the feet of the Ultimate Reality. The Master goes on to say that God cannot be found within the folds of one particular religion or sect, nor He is to be traced within the scriptures but is to be sought within the core of one’s heart. He is not in solid forms but subtler than the subtlest and can be attained only through means of equally subtle order. The Goal is one, that is, the realization of the Eternal Absolute; It is neither Saguna nor Nirguna but beyond both, to state the truth, ‘He is what He is’. It is we who make Him either Saguna or Nirguna. It is to our ultimate advantage if we fix our view on the Original Element or Adi Tattva and love It, whatever It may be.
Elsewhere the Master gives the idea of ‘God or Brahma as the root cause of the entire universe from the finest to the grossest, the innermost centre, base or zero.’ (DR p 101). The Master reveals another dimension of the Ultimate Reality that It is so simple that Its very simplicity has become a veil to It and realization becomes difficult to those who proceed on loaded with their confused conceptions of Reality. He says again, ‘Thought when purely Divine, can reach the Source without fail. If corrupted with attributes and qualities, Realization also becomes corrupted and degraded’. (SDG p 52). It thus becomes abundantly clear to the seeker that he should give up all preconceived notions and ideas howsoever acquired about God or the Supreme Reality for scaling the summit of Realization successfully.
Concept of Zero/Bhuma
The Master brings in the mathematical concept of zero to elucidate the nature of Ultimate Reality. The atheist says that there is no God. In other words no positive or negative value can be ascribed to it and in mathematics this is ‘zero’. Again the atheist cannot deny his own existence or his own denying ‘self’ and this can be taken as ‘one’. The magical property of zero is, when we keep adding zeros to the right of ‘one’, the value of the number keeps on increasing towards infinity alluding to the Upanishadic concept of ‘mahato maheeyan’ or bigger than the biggest. Similarly when we add the zeros to the left of ‘one’ after affixing the decimal point, which the Master takes to be the negativating will negating the ‘one’ representing ‘selfhood’, the value of the number keeps on becoming smaller and smaller tending towards ‘zero’ or nothingness. This can be taken to correspond to the concept ‘anoraneeyan’, smaller than the smallest. There is no limit to the shrinking of the self, which ultimately tends to zero. Zero is complete negation and the most objective way of knowing Reality is when you reduce yourself to nothingness according to Revered. K.C.Varadachari. As long as the ‘self’ looms large