Chapter 1: Journey Back to the Source: Absolute
Source: Absolute / Reality/ Self / Brahman / Awareness / Pure Consciousness
The Human Dilemma: What is happening? Why am I here? Why is everything so beautiful at times, only for it all to shift? Why must things change, and why is there suffering? What are we truly doing here? Was I always meant to live this specific life? Am I bound to these endless ups and downs? The Answer: You can stay in bliss permanently! All that is required is a conscious return—to where you came from. A return to the source. Reflection: Even for the best of best human life, there is a persistent, mysterious discomfort—a feeling of not being “at home”. A constant craving to have a sense of Bliss or Nirvana, and once you get that, you want to dive into ocean of peace and bliss. You grasp it for a moment or more, only to lose it. It remains a fleeting shadow …
Let us begin, then, with reflection on Dialogue on Origin, which is a great confusion and the illusion in itself. This dialogue takes place between SW and WS
SW: Seeking Wisdom
WS: Wisdom Speaking
Wisdom Speaking is talking to Seeking Wisdom who wants to attain Absolute Liberation/ eternal bliss
WS: Where did you come from? What is it that gave rise to us? To attain the Bliss you are looking for, go back to the source.
SW: Physically, I came from my mother’s womb—the union of my parents, nurtured for nine months until I was delivered into this world. If that is my origin, how can I possibly return to the source?
WS: That is but the biological vessel of this singular season. In truth, you have inhabited countless wombs across thousands of lifetimes. Look past your immediate ancestry. Consider the very first spark of life that ever ignited on this Earth. Where did that come from?
SW: I do not know. No book contains the definitive answer, and no search engine can decode it.
WS: That unknowing is the very essence of the human journey. The day you remember or reflect upon your true origin and discover the path back to it, the grand cosmic cycle ends. You finally attain that ocean of bliss and calmness you have always been searching for—the permanent address of Nirvana, the Self! That is the origin of our awareness, our emotions, our longing for meaning? Perhaps the way we feel—our sense of joy, of separation, of seeking—is not random, but deeply connected to that origin.
To contemplate creation is to contemplate ourselves. To explore the source is to rediscover what we have always been. Your persistent craving for bliss is not a flaw; it is your “homing beacon”. After thousands of incarnations, you have finally arrived at a threshold where the superficial logic of the world—where two plus two simply equals four—no longer satisfies you. Your intellect has exhausted itself, and your intuition has taken the lead. You feel this profound restlessness because you are nearing the end of the cycle.
Contemplating the Source: The Absolute Reality
To understand the return, we must contemplate the Source: the Brahman, the Self, the Absolute, Pure Consciousness, Awareness!
· Reality is entirely without form. It is a boundless, immutable space existing far beyond the human constructs of time, distance, and duality.
· It is materially nothing, yet potentially everything.
· How was it created? It was never created; it has always existed. It is the uncaused cause, the unmoved mover.
The Hoax of Creation:
If the finest intellects in human history cannot conclusively answer a riddle as simple as whether the chicken or the egg came first, then the entire linear concept of “creation” is a hoax. Creation is a cosmic joke—a grand play (Lila) of something that never actually happened in ultimate reality. We fail to see this because humanity has become entirely institutionalized by the mundane. We are so conditioned to a mindless, meaningless, and often painful existence that we simply endure it. We survive day to day without ever stopping to ask the only questions that truly matter: Who am I? What am I doing? And what is it all for? What is my final destination?
The article below is written for those who feel an inner calling—a quiet yet persistent urge to know and understand – Who am I?
The Urge to Know: Reflection vs. Creation: The Absolute—the Supreme Reality—did not “create” the universe in the way a carpenter builds a chair. Instead, the universe is a Reflection. The Reality possessed a primal, cosmic urge to experience the unknown. To satisfy this, the Absolute began to “reflect.” Think of this not as the manufacture of something new, but as a Dream.
The Architecture of Reflection: The Coffee Shop Analogy
Imagine you are seated in a quiet corner of a coffee shop in New Delhi. In this moment, you are deeply content exactly where you are. You have arrived at a place of profound acceptance—a realization that whatever happened in your life happened for a reason, and you find a quiet bliss in simply being. Yet, even in this state of peace, the mind retains its playful nature. As you sip a Cortado, your thoughts begin to wander, nudged by a familiar, lingering curiosity:
“What if I had moved abroad to live that cut-throat corporate life, but in my dream city of old times—New York? What would that have been like?”
In an instant, your consciousness transposes you to New York. You aren’t merely imagining it; you are inhabiting it. You smell the crisp autumn air of Central Park and feel the electric, frantic pulse of Times Square and 5th Avenue. As your reflection further intensifies, the “dream” thickens, you see and feel more of your life unfolding their into a denser layer of reflective-reality. You find yourself in a glass-walled meeting room overlooking the city, in a high-stakes meeting with demanding clients. The atmosphere is heavy with the friction of tough arguments and relentless negotiations. Later, you “return home” to a sleek Manhattan condo, but the walls offer no peace; your mind is racing over the data you must defend tomorrow.
The weight of this imagined life becomes so burdensome, the pressure so visceral, that it jolts you back to the present. Suddenly, the skyscrapers vanished. You are back in the New Delhi coffee shop, blinking at your cup.
A profound wave of relief washes over you—a moment of absolute clarity where you realize the “there” was never real, and you were always “here”. With a quiet smile, you finish your Cortado, grateful for the stillness, and decide it’s finally time to check out.
But consider the mechanics of this moment: Reflection!
Stationarity: Your physical body never left the chair in New Delhi.
Non-Fabrication: You didn’t go to New York.
The Paradox: The experience was vivid enough to make your heart race, yet it was entirely a projection. It was real as an experience, but unreal as a location.
The Absolute’s Mirror: This is the nature of the Supreme Reality (Absolute / Brahman). It remains exactly what it is – immutable, homogeneous, still, and whole. It does not “create” the universe through effort; rather, through Reflection, it projects an infinite “New York”—our galaxies, our tragedies, and our triumphs—within the vastness of its own being. We are not “creations” standing apart from a Creator. We are the vivid, living thoughts the Absolute is having while “sipping coffee” in the Eternal Present.
The Ultimate Destination: You Are the Absolute
To put it simply: you are that Absolute Reality. In a timeless, cosmic urge to know yourself, you began to reflect. What followed was a cascade of illusions—a dream layered over dreams, layered over dreams. In truth, you remain entirely unchanged. You are a motionless, homogeneous mass of absolute peace and bliss that has simply fallen asleep and started dreaming. The path of understanding I share here is born from the wisdom of timeless scriptures and the eternal Gitas. As a writer, I am beginning this journey with the ultimate end goal already in sight. My singular purpose is for you to realize, and deeply believe, this one truth: You are the Absolute. You are Infinity.
Seeing Infinity Within the Finite
The articles ahead are an attempt to do what great sages, scholars, and mystics have sought to do since the dawn of time: to help you glimpse infinity from within the boundaries of the finite. Together, we will walk through a step-by-step analysis of this great understanding. The objective is not to help you attain peace, but to realize that peace and bliss are what you already are.
Once this lands, all searching ends. No further effort is needed to chase something that is, and has always been, you. This current life—and the countless lifetimes you have left behind—are merely dreams layered upon older dreams.
Continuation of the Coffee Shop Analogy before we wrap Chapter 1:
You Never Moved, You Just Reflected and that is the Great Awakening!
In essence, our individual existence is a non-existence; we are simply experiencing Reality through a reflective thought!
The journey of spirituality is to witness a beautiful moment of Waking Up; It is the realization that despite the “New York” struggle you just imagined, you never actually left the Source “New Delhi coffee shop”. You are, and always have been, the one sipping the coffee. You have never actually moved, you are lost in a vivid daydream. In your mind, you are climbing mountains, crossing oceans, and enduring hardships. But when you snap out of it, you realize you never left your chair.
You are still resting safely within that homogeneous mass of infinity, where every single ounce of existence is pure bliss and nothing else. The thousands of lives you have lived are simply the number of dreams your consciousness was capable of projecting. In a boundless urge to experience and know more, you kept reflecting, diving deeper into the mind's creations, and in the process, you simply forgot your origin.
It is time to wake up!