Two Approaches: Investigate or Surrender

In one way or another, all great religious and spiritual traditions describe reality as a single, infinite and indivisible whole whose nature is spirit, consciousness or, in religious language, God. Irrespective of the name given, these traditions suggest that reality is one, complete and indivisible. We, as apparently separate individuals, are localisations of this one infinite and indivisible reality. We are viewpoints through which this single reality perceives itself as the world as a multiplicity and diversity of objects and selves. The one reality refracts itself and appears as many. The identification of the infinite with the finite is referred to as the ego or the separate self. The great spiritual traditions offer two approaches: investigate yourself or surrender yourself. Both can be distilled into one result: the dissolution of the apparently separate self into its reality, the true and only self of infinite, ever-present awareness.

In one way or another, all great religious and spiritual traditions describe reality as a single, infinite and indivisible whole whose nature is spirit, consciousness or, in religious language, God. Irrespective of the name given, these traditions suggest that reality is one, complete and indivisible. We, as apparently separate individuals, are localisations of this one infinite and indivisible reality. We are viewpoints through which this single reality perceives itself as the world as a multiplicity and diversity of objects and selves. The one reality refracts itself and appears as many. The identification of the infinite with the finite is referred to as the ego or the separate self. The great spiritual traditions offer two approaches: investigate yourself or surrender yourself. Both can be distilled into one result: the dissolution of the apparently separate self into its reality, the true and only self of infinite, ever-present awareness.