Spirituality

He never tired of explaining it, though he must have done so more times than I can count: The chart shows the relationship between the Real and the relative reality. At that first lecture as I was listening to him, I thought, "Oh, oh, here is another term I don't understand. I wonder what he means by ‘relative reality'? Reality is reality!" As though reading my mind, he proceeded to answer my question. (This happened quite often at his lectures: He started to answer my silent question seconds after I had entertained that thought in my mind. Later I learned that many other people had experienced similar moments of synchronicity.) Do you see the Om at the top? Om stands for the Real. We only One, lt is Timeless and does not change. This changeless factor, which illumines all changes, is the Consciousness by which we experience this World of ever-changing phenomena. What we call relative reality is everything other than Om, and it is this everything else whic...