The Infinite Masquerading as the Finite

Bear with me--there is a reward.

The infinite can only know the infinite. If the infinite were to ever find something finite, that finite thing must necessarily occupy space in the infinite and there would be a hole in the infinite where the infinite is not, which would render the infinite not infinite. This is absurd. Similarly, the finite cannot know the infinite. If the finite were to ever come into contact with the infinite, the finite would instantly recognize itself as the infinite since the infinite is all encompassing/all pervading/all-there-is, and so the finite that seeks the infinite eventually realizes itself as never having been finite but rather as always having been the infinite all along, as always having been itself part of the whole. If the finite can ever be said to exist, it is only as the infinite seeming to forget its true nature, and then going out in search of itself, not knowing that it was itself for which it was in search all along. The finite is illusory, there was always only the infinite, there can only ever be the infinite. The existence of the infinite precludes the existence of its opposite.

Be open to the possibility that each of us is a slightly different way God has of seeming to forget himself so as to have a human experience in as many ways as possible, that each of us is a divine localization, that each of us is the infinite masquerading as the finite. Be open to the possibility that this was the fall that had to happen. Be open to the possibility that the purpose of life is to delocalize and realize our true nature and lack of separation--a separation that for most of our lives seems all too real. Be open to the possibility that Jesus, Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Krishna are examples of delocalization, of the finite realizing its true identity as the infinite. In a relative sense, God became like us so that we could become like Him; in an absolute sense, as the Sufis say, "There is no God but God." Be open to the possibility that this is all part of the divine play, that it is gravely serious and not very serious at all.

This understanding--if understood both intellectually and empirically--has tremendous implications for your life, if you let it.