Subjective is being human; Objective is becoming Divine?


Every Friday, I receive an email newsletter with a short excerpt from the writings of the monks of the famous Ramakrishna Mission. They are brief and yer valuable in their message. Sometimes they refer to quotes from Saint Ramakrishna often referred to as the “Master”. Following a small excerpt from this newsletter received last Friday:
As long as there are quarrels among different individuals and sects, they cannot rise up to realize the highest truth. When truth shines, the darkness of ignorance and its crew of narrowness, bigotry, and fanaticism that deluge the earth with murder and bloodshed, shall all vanish. “My God is the true God; your God is false” — these are the words of those who grope in the darkness of ignorance. Once Keshab Chandra Sen, the leader of the Brahmo Samaj, asked our Master, “Since there is only one God, how is it that there are so many sects quarreling with one another?” The Master replied: “You see, people always quarrel over their land, property, and other things of the world, saying, ‘This land is mine, and that is yours.’ In this way they divide this earth in various ways by drawing lines of demarcation to distinguish their respective property. But no one ever quarrels about the open space that is above the earth, for that belongs to no one, as no lines can be drawn on it to distinguish one person’s property from that of another. Similarly, when the mind rises above all worldly concerns, one has no occasion to quarrel, for then one reaches a certain point that is the common goal of all.” When man realizes God he cannot quarrel, but when he is below the right mark — that is, when he is distant from God — he is more or less given to quarreling. However, although you may have many occasions for it, you can at last end all these disagreements by realizing universal harmony and agreement, which are only to be found in God, who is both within and without you.
Source: Ramakrishna as We Saw Him, by Swami Chetanananda; Ch 17 Swami Subodhananda, p 299

In our book on Spirituality in Practice, we outline the description from Vedic Philosophy (i.e.)  The entire universe is a two-sided coin: Enabler (through an infinite collection of laws of nature – collectively known as Brahman) and the Enabled (all that is known and unknown to us through our perceptions, feelings and thoughts broadly recognized as the “Material World”). 
This is the True Knowledge, the way it is. 

Viewed from the eyes of the enabler, there are no distinctions of any kind. The fire that burns, the wind that moves, the electricity, magnetism, buoyancy, gravity, ………..have no identifiable differences on their own accord between people, places, objects, etc. Intangible human qualities of love, kindness, empathy, gratefulness, … that connect the enabler inside each of us (consciousness) also have no perceivable differences across everyone of us as individuals. They represent the universal divine powers and divine qualities respectively!

Viewed only through what we perceive, feel or think about – the lens of the “enabled” – one becomes subjective (i.e.) attached to the “self”. It is this subjective or self-centered view, discussion or focus that is the source of quarrels on anything. This is largely due to the dominance of our bias, driven by our attachments to our needs and wants. Such quarrel can also germinate from ignorance, where we give up our ability to think and reason. Instead we are willing to accept and believe darkness as light and shining light as darkness!

The more one is objective, the true reality evolves based on higher levels of knowledge. The inference or conclusion is consistent and agreed upon by more and more people. As a result quarreling on anything, including any disputes about God dissipates.
Alternatively, if we objectively look at all that is enabled including the stone, plants, animals and people across the globe, and see no differences across them, we arrive at a view that everything is enabled (Sarvam Brahma Mayam). We see only one universal Enabler or God for all and for everything.  

Only through a narrow and subjective view and its bias or ignorance quarrels emanate on anything. This subjectivity extends to opinions, bias and distinction to conceive and create various forms of God and the quarrel that follows?


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