The Price the Infinite Pays

"I’ve experienced a stronger knowing of love this week than ever before. But I still don’t understand why that love would manifest a world with such extreme suffering – the Holocaust, the killing fields in Cambodia. Not just suffering that leads to growth, but truly horrific events. Rupert says: ‘In order to manifest its potential, the infinite must localise itself as a finite mind through whose perceiving faculties it can perceive itself as the world. But this comes at a price – it must overlook or forget itself. As a result, it loses touch with its innate peace and seems to become a temporary, finite self whose overriding emotions are desire and fear. Desire because it feels incomplete and seeks fulfilment; fear because it feels vulnerable and must defend its illusory existence. When this forgetting is very deep and a mind is almost completely impervious to its reality, that belief in separation enables behaviour towards others that one would never direct towards oneself.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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