THE THEORY OF EQUIVALENCE
If all is ONE, then there is no other. Therefore ALL is ONE and ALL that occurs in life is ONE, and since any ‘one’ is not greater or less than any other ‘one’, then ALL is EQUIVALENT since ALL is ONE and there is no other than the ONE which is ALL, and is correctly experienced as EQUIVALENT to anything else, for it is all the same One thing.
With a perspective like this, it is easy to become enlightened. Being enlightened means being One with the Universal Spirit. If you have the perspective of One-ness, then you are enlightened.
When asked what God is, the great Indian yogi Lahiri Mahasaya used to say “Neti. Neti” meaning “Not this, not that.” Think about it. What would happen if you were to answer the question any other way? As soon as you would identify God as being this or that particular thing, then by even saying so you automatically imply that it is not every other thing in the whole universe that lies outside of the particular thing’s apparent outermost physical boundaries. To think that any particular thing is God causes us to push aside everything else out of our narrow focus. Even the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote that one cannot say what the Tao is by pointing at any particular individual thing.
When you focus on your attention on something to the exclusion of all else, you altar that thing, change it, limit it and so on, quite literally changing it just by observing it, instead of focusing on everything at once which would allow that thing to simply be. Quantum science shows this in repeated experiments.
Sometimes it seems to me that we are constant gardeners of a garden that doesn’t need our attention or assistance of any kind. The world is a wild garden. It doesn’t need us here to begin with. And it certainly doesn’t need us to change stuff around since it apparently can do that whether or not we are aware of it going on in front of our faces or beneath our very feet. I can only assume that one reason we human beings are here is because it is a joyous thing to just be Doing anything at all here in the physical plane. No matter what that source of joy is for any particular individual, it is All One and is Equivalent to All Else since All is One. So it matters not what anyone’s neighbors do in the course of pursuing their own happiness, doing whatever thrills them. Let all be as they are. When one can do this, then one is protected from the machinations of those who would prey upon you as they would do to any one of the spiritually ignorant population. This kind of realized perspective allows one to lead a life of unimaginable peace.
Give all who reside here in physical bodies the space to be themselves, with as little interference from you as possible. Living that way is one of the ultimate expressions of the consciousness explained herein. This level of awareness goes a long way in explaining how some saints who have realized this state of being are able to walk without leaving footprints, cast no shadows, mysteriously subdue even the most ferocious man-eating predatory animals on earth, neutralize someone physically assaulting them in a tiny fraction of a second, and so on.
Only offer your attention and assistance when there is a genuine need or if personally asked for it. Focusing attention or help where it is unnecessary or unwanted will only result in some kind of hell. Hence the reason masters don’t advertise for students. A proper student is one that can recognize the teacher (or the teachings) by Intuition. Then the student merely has to be receptive to the teacher and/or teachings. But don’t make the mistake of identifying the teacher as God, for this violates Equivalency. All is One.
But not all manifested beings are aware of this. Just manifesting here in physical bodies means a danger of losing one’s Divine awareness of the One, since being able to perceive the body poses a danger of identifying or being identified with one particular thing, instead of All Things. Most people on earth have lost this high level of awareness. Remembering that All is Equivalent returns the student to the awareness of All is One—Equivalency.
