Mankind has lived believing either in the reality of the soul and the illusoriness of matter, or in the reality of matter and the illusoriness of the soul. You can divide the humanity of the past into those who are spiritual and those who are materialists. But only few has bothered to look at the reality of the human being. We are both together. We are neither just spirituality—not just consciousness—nor are we just matter. We are a tremendous harmony between matter and consciousness. Or perhaps matter and consciousness are not two things but only two aspects of one reality: Matter is the outside of consciousness, and consciousness is the interiority of matter. The materialist has chosen to listen to the body and has become completely deaf as far as the reality of consciousness is concerned. The ultimate result is great science, great technology—an affluent society, a richness of things that are mundane, worldly. And amidst all this abundance there is a poor human being without a soul, completely lost—not knowing who he is, not knowing why he is, feeling almost like an accident or a freak of nature. You cannot live just as a body. That’s what Jesus means when he says, “Man cannot live by bread alone”—but this is only half the truth. You need consciousness, you cannot live by bread alone, true—but you cannot live without bread, either.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:27:00 +0000
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