TO BE NOTHING

 
'To be nothing' means Truth. When your 'being' is not, you are God. But how could you feel and know that all this that you see and feel is nothing? The world seems so real, all its phenomena so true, that the average man simply cannot consider it maya.

It is only when you attain to that particular state, or rise above the mental sphere that you can realize the nothingness of the gross world. Those who say that God is real and the world is also real are ignorant. It is because they have very hazy notions about the divine realm that they say that the world is real.

The average man knows the nothingness of the world, only when he is in sound sleep. When he is in sound sleep, he knows not his family, wealth, profession, body, and mind; in short, he knows nothing. But when his sound sleep is disturbed, and he enters the dreaming state, he considers all his dreams real and true. He knows not that he is actually dreaming. Whatever he does and sees in dreams, he considers real and true. But as soon as he wakes up, he realizes the nature of the phenomena he witnessed in dreams. Just the same way when one enters the divine realm, one realizes the nothingness of the world.

Heavens, earths, minds, bodies, all disappear, when the Self is realized, and only One Infinite Eternal Existence remains.