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Everything Is Nothing, And Nothing Is Everything
Swami says that anything that changes is not true because truth is absolute and never changes. All desires, wishes, wants, anticipations, expectations, and yearnings are just transitory; they come and go. The true significance of the external world is that it is a training ground for detachment. What is real? What is unreal? What is lasting and eternal? What is ephemeral, transient, and temporary? Only God is real, always the same at all times. Events in time come and go. Thoughts come and go. When we are able to detach from our minds and all that we hold dear, we become empty and nothing, which is everything, God.
Swami has told me on a number of occasions, “Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything.” He says, gesturing outwardly, “Everything is nothing,” meaning that all separate objects in the world of duality are passing and transient, and therefore, are not absolute, eternal, true. They are subject to birth and death, and become nothing. Then, pointing to his hand, he says, “And nothing is everything,” meaning that God’s eternal hand, the cause of all causes, is the absolute behind the relative. Since God’s hand is omnipresent and cannot be defined as a separate object, it is considered “no thing,” and thus, is everything. Swami sometimes chides devotees that when he materializes something, the devotee is interested in the object that is materialized and not the hand that materializes it. It is in the hand that we must rest.
Endnotes
1 Resolution on Facilitated Communication by the American Psychological Association, Adopted in Council, August 14, 1994, Los Angeles, CA.
“Facilitated communication (FC) has been widely adopted throughout North America in special/vocational education services for individuals with developmental disabilities who are nonverbal. A basic premise of
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