The absolute and relative
-By Maitreya Ishwara

Some seekers are confused about the application of their spiritual knowledge. The key to clarity is to apply reason and stick to your direct personal experience.

All spiritual knowledge that you have collected is borrowed, unless you have verified it with experience. Ask yourself: What do I really know?

The less baggage you carry the faster you can travel.

Become an inner scientist with a primary hypothesis to verify by your direct experience and applied intelligence: Consciousness is all there is; I am not separate from That. The negation helps free you from a subtle trap of ego. The positive version: ‘I am That’, or ‘I am God’ often leaves the ego alive and claiming to be free.

We live in the relative world of matter. The world is not unreal; rather, reality is multidimensional. There is no need to deny the reality of the relative world and cling to the Absolute as the only reality. The relative is where we are human and enjoy the fruits of life. The Absolute is wholly known only to Source. Fully enlightened ones have a glimpse of the Absolute in the realm of non-Being, the highest human experience. Even they cannot adequately describe the subtlety of that refined awareness.