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Tips : Change your focus
Ask a hindu, buddhist or sufi mystic how one can experience God / The Ultimate Reality, and they'll probably shoot back with a cryptic statement. One way or the other what they'll allude to is "changing your focus".
Unlike some other religions, the above three streams of thought do not view "God" as someone / something that resides "up there in the heavens", waiting to dispense favours to those that please Him, or otherwise punish those who don't. Rather, the mystic's view of the divine is that of a principle - a principle without beginning or end. And the universe is but an external manifestation of that principle.
To the mystic there is neither "creation", "continuation", nor "dissolution" of the manifest universe. Not in the conventional sense of the word, at least. It is rather a continuum of a principle - a principle without beginning or end.
While at a friend's house the other evening, I was fortunate to glimpse - intellectually and emotionally I must hasten to add - the manifestation of this principle. The play of light and shadow cast on the ceiling by a lamp touched a chord in me. A chord that resonated visually and emotionally with the principle which I'd only heard and read off till date...
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