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One: God and God-Man 3
God and the Creation
God is infinite reality, whereas cosmos is infinite illusion. But
both are not infinite in the same sense. God is One Infinite, and
illusion is infinite in numbers. God is infinite unity, and Illusion,
infinite duality. Always God is. All along Illusion IS NOT.
Illusion or no illusion, God remains beginningless and endless,
while Illusion has a beginning in illusion and it also ends in
Illusion.
The infinite Illusion includes an infinite number of suns,
stars, moons, planets and worlds. The whole of the creation goes
on evolving ad infinitum in Illusion.
Take for instance the head of a man with innumerable
hairs growing over it. When all the hair is shaved off, the growth
of hair does not cease; the hairs reappear and cover the head all
over again. Even when the head becomes bald, it is only the hair
which disappears, the head remains head.
Against the one head, although innumerable, the hairs
have next to no value. They may appear and disappear without
any difference to the value of the head as such. The value most
attached to the hair is but decorative, as a means of attraction
and as a lure of self-satisfaction.
Similarly, the individual mind that generates infinite
thoughts may be compared with the individual head that has
a growth of innumerable hairs. The individual mind is capable
of containing, emanating and absorbing an infinite number of
thoughts. In fact, all energy and all matter are but the outcome
of the mind itself.
To understand the all-importance of God Who is the only