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Originally Posted by iamthat
An alternative view is that realisation does exist and is experienced as an actual event at a particular moment in time.
If we only know duality then all concepts of Oneness are just ideas in our head. Whatever reality we experience is based in duality.
The realisation of Oneness is more than just the dropping of the illusion of manifestation. It is a complete surrender, and at the moment of surrender we enter a state of pure emptiness. We then discover that this emptiness pervades all manifestation, without limitation, and this emptiness is our true nature. This emptiness is also fullness, because nothing can be added to it and nothing can be taken away from it.
This emptiness is experienced as an unchanging state of one thing everywhere. Before the moment of realisation this emptiness is unknown to us in our limited forms. After the moment of realisation this emptiness is our daily ever-present reality.
Just an alternative view.
Peace
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Points raised here are superb and very much helpful .
Just to add to the points raised for more clarification , people at times fear the words like 'surrender' . Many a times people fill we surrender to someone with gun pointing to our head and we surrendering is something very dreadful situation and thereby they abhor the 'surrender' to God . So 'surrender' here means more 'devotion' with love to God just like lovers in a romantic situation let the lover play or parents playing with their little kids allowing kids even to kick or even slap the parent in the play. So the key word here is love / devotion. In Hinduism its called Bhakti (process of staying connected /associated with God ). We need to view the word 'surrender' in this light.
Further many a times people dread the word emptiness . Above post rightly mentions emptiness is fullness . Just to stress this point further Emptiness is emptiness of material differences of manifestations and thereby resulting separation which realizes the fullness / wholeness of underlying common unifying factor .
As long as there is life the duality and resulting separation is going to be there and there is no need for arbitrarily discarding those differences . The need is to increase our vision and ability to see the underlying commonality and act accordingly with love which pierces the veil of separation and creates joy for all in the play called life.
This is gradual and evolutionary and possible only with continuity , persistence ,perseverance , intelligence , faith ,honesty and hardwork.