The Brahman is a forest. Consciousness is a forest, which has space for so many levels of existence.
*Chapter 9 - Living In Truth*
*Day 45*
It is like in the forest where everything has a place. The deer has a place, the lion, the tiger, the mongoose has a place, and so also the snake. The forest does not exclude or reject anything.
It provides for every single creature and yet it maintains itself clean. The forest never gets dirty. For ages it has not, unless man walks into it with cans, potato chips, cokes, cakes, mangoes and litters the forest.
The forest maintains itself and provides for everybody. The Brahman is a forest. Consciousness is a forest, which has space for so many levels of existence. Also in Gita, Lord Krishna compares it to a tree which is upside down.
The knowledge is like a tree which is upside down, which has roots above and branches below. It is a very different simile from any other. Your roots are high up somewhere.
Whatever you are doing here is only thought branches. Your spirit is rooted in the other world. Life here is just a projection of it. Our activities here are just like branches or leaves. Leaves wither away.
You don't cry when you know your roots are very strong. Leaves change, branches grow and they fall, but the roots remain the same. So we are all rooted there. Adi Shankara also says, "My original home is there in heaven. I've come here for holiday, just for a visit. My home is there".
Even a flash of this experience gives this magnanimity to life. That immortality is where we came from, where nothing changes, nothing dies and you never die.
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