An introduction, to the Bridge.
The reality of God is too vast for any one person to comprehend. Its why Jesus Christ is the son who would sacrifice all for a single blessing, from the Father - in the direction of knowing, like him; Jesus is comprehensible because we know his character - who he was - although some, like me, may also say its the word of Jesus Christ - may eternal blessings be upon his eternally blessed soul - which is difficult to comprehend - in his description of the reality of the Kingdom; the ideas, metaphors, and creative abstractions used by Jesus Christ leverage fundamental principles related to existence, empiricism helps as a guide to unravel the knots of doubt, the one-dimensional surface meaning of words transform into something with more dimensions, the atheist comprehends this yet denies the undeniable source required for the comprehension of multi-dimensionality, abstracting a deterministic system is unnecessary if you can’t change it, the reality of atheism is by definition a belief system of pointlessness. I was close to making that unbelievable leap, but couldn’t do it, the abyss of meaninglessness meant that there was nothing to actually jump over, after scratching my head for a little while, I was forced to do the only rational thing and made a U-turn to go looking for meaning elsewhere - human beings have the ability to step outside of, and deal with, infinite loops. What I bumped into was Jesus Christ - since it was the reality of my environment and the root of the people who I was surrounded by - and what I found was a beautiful unveiling of the idea of love - as imperfect as I am I do understand the idea - which is the idea of the innocence of lambs frolicking - my state for a long time - which can suddenly transform to being able to see the scope of a horizon that stretches across a vast space in a moment - the ability to comprehend an abstraction like the visible universe - in one’s imagination and then, further, being able to traverse to any point across that space - a theoretical possibility. Knowledge is the bridge that unites energy and time.
The essence of the Guru is to enlighten, constantly, to teach, and be taught is the natural state, this is the essence of love, to know that no one person knows everything - the Son of Man did not know the final hour - and in not knowing still drank from the cup having faith that love is not abandonment - even as the flesh sweats beads of blood pleading to be saved from its own circumstantiality - the spirit remained strong, the Guru is the one that guides one to a state of being where the source is unknown whilst knowing material existence is elegantly real and can be known. The characters in the holy stories we know reveal the mystery of who we are and what we can then be, the choice to change your mind in light of the evidence is constantly available - its why a Hero is such - from Carpenter to Messiah, from the lap of luxury to 40 years of wandering in the desert to the top of Sinai - in a constant state of Ihsan, from a merchant to becoming the founder of back-to-back civilizations spanning 14 centuries. The root of a spiritual path is to constantly change and struggle in maintaining balance.
Sikhism is an introduction to how one should approach undoing the knot of misunderstanding so that the path to the unfathomable Devine becomes clear - a little bit at a time. Guru Nanak Jee - may eternal blessings be upon his eternally blessed soul - defines the divine in the only way it can be defined, through constant action in the worship of the divine - in everything - struggling to be in a state of Ihsan. The roots of Sikhism aspire to mindful focus so as to glimpse the unimaginable. Regardless of if one sweeps the street or a CEO, the one who lives Sikhism is in the same state of being, a constant imaginative feeling almost dreaming, wondering, what could be in store next - ever more enlightened by acknowledging the one existence we are currently immersed - in the presence - a type of bliss; this is what I feel when I read and listen to the divine words. The words of Baba Nanak Jee, are constantly trying to free one from the one thing that constrains unique consciousness - doubt of the source of its existence - which leads to fear, which leads to anxiety, which insists on escape, the result is a spiraling feeling rather than control. After meditating on the holy principles underpinning Sikhism, one arrives at only certainty. It’s genuinely inspiring.
Consciousness in collapsed material existence is utterly unfathomable - a mystery. We are actively and constantly living in reality because we all know, for certain, that we cannot predict the next creative imaginative [abstract] thought or event - we don’t know - it's impossible, its that unknowing which leads to knowing since knowing is predicated on agreeing which creative abstract thoughts have meaning and value so as to better manage the uncertain future - by learning from the past so as to develop solutions rooted in wisdom. In the unlikely instance that we were able to deterministically arrive at predicting new creative abstractions, then, it would be impossible for one to predict the precise feeling that [creative abstract] thought or event invokes, I don’t understand the obsession to know material existence when there is only the possibility to collaborate with other unique imaginations in any set of abstractions that have meaning from which emerges yet more meaning, it’s endless and amazing. Try as you may and as interesting as the stories from that pursuit of wanting to guess what and who we are and what and where reality is, its ultimately unknowable, a fundamental uncertainty - a thing we are already familiar with - baked into the fabric of time and space - containing utterly unique conscious agents that perceive separateness - when there is none - so as to create the ability to choose, it’s a truly an unbounded gift we have been given.
Psychology, physics, evolutionary biology, and the rest of the theories are all stories usually based on compartmentalized, disparate, and incomplete information/evidence, the leaps one needs to make to believe in the idea of no God, where forces acting randomly on matter somehow conceived of complex organisms that then have the ability to create abstractions beyond said forces and matter, like the abstraction of God - an absolute impossibility in a purely deterministic universe - the belief of atheism can never be real. It’s an undeniable fact that material matter, which includes the material brain, in a purely deterministic system cannot conceive of any abstraction beyond its own determinism, doing so would only be in the context of introducing doubt, which has the potential to undermine the whole system. Thus, within the words of Baba Nanak Jee, one comes to the conclusion that the love and mercy of God is manifest in the created conscious human being - to take an elegantly balanced and deterministic universe and allow the choice of doubt. It’s truly extraordinary how the human being has been given a vast scope to choose to do that which is contrary to the idea of balance and harmony; disaster and chaos are predicated on the majority of conscious agents being numb to their own ability to choose in the direction of harmony and balance. The idea and associated abstraction of God is pervasive across all of human history and can never be dislodged - as an idea, ever - it can only be ignored, veiled, and shamelessly harassed. The worst illusion is believing that one theist is different from another, such a conclusion destroys the idea related to the function of a bridge.
Deterministic laws can never conclude the abstraction related to God, what part of physical matter would ever need to perceive such an abstraction or any abstraction for that matter? Human beings should be as docile as an electron and its function in the context of a nucleus it is bound to. The idea of randomness is destroyed because the abstraction of God organizes random matter by creating laws that aggregate and form matter, the gift is unique conscious imagination. God is precisely elegant. The ability to know is a system that needs to be put through the framework established by Baba Nanak Jee constantly - the spiritually guided are able to unbiasedly look at all available information as one set - and land on the necessary conclusions, Baba Nanak Jee is an undeniable master. It’s the pursuit of knowing more that gives meaning, any environment that disrupts this process, by suggesting things are fixed and predictable is limiting - there is more outside of one’s relative perspective. The reality of God disrupts absolutely nothing in the pursuit of formalizing the evidence, in fact, the truth of God does the exact opposite - for those who comprehend what the science is pointing towards - in facilitating unbounded choice to acknowledge the conclusions of the evidence; imagination has been collapsed to a moment in timelessness for the potential choice to create knots or to unravel everything, only to reveal that nothing can be changed.
Sikhism provides a formula for ease, which requires an introduction to the foundations of certainty - without a foundation, one is likely to fall and falter into illusion and superstition, Sikhism provides a foundation from which one can leap and be free, it starts with chat - difficult when one, like me, is afraid - the manufactured environment of survival of the fittest and the alpha hierarchy is creating an environment that is destroying creative imagination - ultimately self-defeating. The introduction to the monotheistic religions is Sikhism, it provides an undeniable definition of the absolute Devine - the self - which cannot be denied. Regardless of how you approach this reality and existence, you ultimately land on a version of Sikhism - it’s the guru that shows & explains to the student what the divine is - through kind words and good knowledge - many like me have never been shown anything other than the hard shell of rituals, this creates a gap that results in constant mistakes being made, the spiritual teachers must return and talk with each other. The rightly guided teacher, who looks out for all - willfully self-sacrificing for their students - and everyone else by extension, is one who is connected to the eternal truth of time flowing through created consciousness in an immersive reality called existence - the teacher must be the example first - to that which is better, the Guru’s word resonate deeply as a father who is trying to teach also, many mistakes are made for those like me without a teacher. Sikhism is the bridge that can be used to correlate all of the truths of the world - the same path to love - with a shy modesty and easy an glance. One can step from monotheism to Hinduism, from the one to the three to the multitude, right back to the One. Brahma is the only truth, from it emanates the One consciousness that consumes all, the choice for evil not even on the horizon. Baba Nanak Jee, can guide one, can explain things to those who want a quick and easy introduction to why the egotistical self, itself, is the reason for the existence of God, because human choice can actually deny nature and then actually destroy it. No evolutionary model would conclude a system of self-annihilation, it's a contradiction - a system cannot gain pleasure from its own destruction - it only wants to survive. Baba Nanak Jee tells us how to avoid ourselves, to get out of our own way. Its constantly guiding.
Thou has a thousand Eyes, and yet not one Eye - The Guru
Dimensionality is what the Muslims refer to when a reference is made to the one who is one eyed - its the impression one arrives at when the words of the Shaykh Al-Akbar Ibn Arabi [may eternal blessings be upon his eternally blessed soul] are pondered. God is not one dimension, its the one truth of existence, reality is multi-dimensional, inherently complex - the 3 dimensions we perceive is simply an abstraction of many underlying dimensions - stacked complexity so as to perceive form. The reality of the choice to do that which is less better - to the extreme, becomes the choice to do evil - it emerges from a series of underlying choices to reveal an abstraction, the abstraction of evil is one dimensional, like seeing with one eye covered, the depth perception is kind-of off center, the metaphor for that person who willingly chooses a one dimensional outlook, of me, becomes like the one with eye covered their perception is off, without perception there is nothing else but one dimension one chooses to focus on, fire is one dimensional, all consuming in its selfishness - like can only contain that which is like it, the Guru provides much wisdom in a single statement, he allows the student to drift off and imagine such a thing and decide if they too desire to live in a one dimensional state, just the one personal eye,; no one desires one dimension, perception starts with two and carries on - limited only by one’s imagination. Without creativity the human being becomes stagnant, like one who stands in front of a mirror and looks at their own reflection, constantly, boredom sets in, the anxiety of the need to live life pushes one towards the edges of the boundaries set, ever increasing towards requiring more - covering as the path into the cold dark extremes begins to surround - the choice to pull the veil over ourselves is ours, we choose how we want to feel, pain is momentary and then always in the past, its what one needs to keep reminding themselves. Its constant practice
Mankind has have been given definite preference, and that preference was depth through multi-dimensionality - there for us to wonder and play with - ad-infinitum, navigating consciousness within infinity is no easy feat, the blessed Guru was sent to guide, and in order to guide there needs to be more than one dimension, both eyes need to be open and fixed on the guru, its only then one realizes that Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye, Brahma is not blind and does not have a single eye, yet sees across a sea of dimensions, and so it is, that the blessed Baba Nanak Jee provided the bridge from the thousand back to the one - providing the path to the absolute truth of Hinduism and Monotheism, a path that creates a state that is constantly striving towards that which is higher - necessarily better.
The Muslim understands the Sikh, because from the Guru we can walk to the house of Kabir and from Kabir’s we calmly sail to Hafiz, then watch the sunrise with Rumi, the houses of love are many, the road is wide and spacious; we see your smile, its one that we recognize, it puts us at ease, so we too want to be like the good Guru, and speak.