Riffin' On Seeing "It"

“My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.” 11.54 Bhagavad Gita The Universal Form

There are many who would feel, quite clearly, that there are no mechanics to the act of seeing God. There are even more who feel that the crux of the concerns concerning God are in regards to the “If” of His existence, rather than what the individual “ought” to be doing with the successive moments thrust upon them. In actuality, if we have any sense that any one person or Being “ought” to be doing any specific thing at all, and we perpetually do whether we are trying or not, conditioned as we have been by the likes of suffering across the years… we are deeply immersed, already, in faith-based frameworks.

The fact of the matter is that the mechanics of seeing God are captured, quite clearly, in today’s simple passage consisting of two sentences. Through “undivided” “devotional service” to the entirety of creation, one can “understand” God “as I am”. You are…you are doing the God with your being-ness, and therefore through the act of “I am”, of Being… you have the experience. This is one of the “mysteries” of “My understanding”.

How does “undivided devotional service” plainly lead to the ability to actually “see” “directly” God? It’s as simple as the notion of the absolute…absolution was always a process within Western religion to bring people back to a psychological state in which they view God as supreme…as utterly on top of and in charge of every unfolding situation in existence. It turns out this is the truth of reality at any given moment. When you approach reality as such and have accumulated merit… it happens. In “service” you can “see” “directly” the ghost that is in each and every room in existence.

I want to say… the Buddhists know that this happens, and they march people down this path all day everyday with entirely secular, mechanical frameworks. In the Church, when I was in the church... we had a large parish…and some of us wondered if any of us had met God, but kinda doubted it. Maybe so…

It turns out teaching someone to see God is the very same as teaching them long division. It’s not just some who can learn it… every single person can, and should. Will we reach a point in human history in which the traditions that create men of God aren’t considered inherently anti-capitalistic or anti-social? Can we hit a point in which religion is bold and empowered, and does the sorts of magical and far reaching things we naturally would hope it would be (and has been) capable of doing? While the fundamental truth it ultimately expresses is beyond all methods of comprehensive understanding...while it can't clearly be constrained in any one quality or quantity...what the traditions have historically affirmed can and needs to be known about the heart/personality of God...is the type of information that not only coexists well with that of the social sciences...but too often times can optimize a person's spontaneous comprehension of the ultimate truths expressed/uncovered by the social sciences...or anything, actually. It's a magical and powerful paradigm, and it really seems to have a relationship with one's mental prowess at any given moment, in addition to jiving well with the ultimate economic plan... in that it sharpens/optimizes general execution at the level of individual...which is why Asians are rumored to have astonishing work ethics and competitive dispositions...