Ultimate Godly Truth
By yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru
The word truth is linked to the Latin veritas. In ancient Greek, the equivalent to truth is aletheia, the etymological meaning of which is non-oblivion, as it is derived from lethe, meaning oblivion, with the negative particle a – non. But reality or truth unveiled are the most common uses.
Truth affirms or emphasises a correspondence or a mirroring that enables authentic knowledge. Knowledge of the Truth always points to a process of entering into occult resonance between the consciousness of the knowing subject and the reality, the being or the object that represents the desired knowledge. This process allows the human being to discover the Truth regarding a thing, being or aspect in their inner universe. The Ultimate Truth, or the Godly Truth, that is accessed at a particular moment by some human beings, because of their efficacious spiritual transformation, can be said to be ‘Eternal’, ‘Solid’, ‘Revealing’, ‘Mysterious’, ‘Uplifting’, ‘Ineffable’, ‘Permanent’, ‘Stable’, and it also points to the indescribable, enigmatic fidelity of a sui generis alliance that appears between the human being and God the Father.
The sages’ perspective is that one can never speak of a Godly or Ultimate Truth that would be foreign to the Supreme Principle. To understand this statement, we need to succinctly enounce that which the Supreme Principle actually is, i.e., the Origin of all origins, the Unity without beginning, the Eternal Absolute, or in other words, God the Father, who is both beyond Manifestation and beyond Non-manifestation. The Supreme Principle is a hypostasis of God the Father, who is beyond any ordinary understanding and who is also Non-dual, i.e., lacking duality. From the perspective of the great sages, the Supreme Principle has a fundamental metaphysical importance. It can be said that the Supreme Principle is that which the sages of the Orient call Brahman, God, the Supreme Principle that exists beyond any distinction and is absolutely unconditioned. The Supreme Principle is the Origin of all origins, the mysterious Unity without beginning, the Eternal Absolute, or that which exists both beyond manifestation and beyond non-manifestation, and which exists beyond any ordinary understanding, representing that which is non-dual – the Unique One without second.
When one speaks of the Ultimate Godly Truth as such, one always inevitably makes direct reference to the Supreme Principle because outside of the Supreme Principle nothing holds its own foundation – without exception. This reference to the primary Supreme Principle necessarily implies that any relationship with the Ultimate, Godly, and primary Truth must pass through the recognition of our subordination to the objective, mysterious imperatives of the immutable, fundamental and supra-human laws. That is why it is said that, when it is revealed in our own inner universe, only the Ultimate Truth truly makes us free. This is underlined by the Apostle John in the Gospel. Quoting Jesus, he says: “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free” – John 8:32.
The Supreme Principle is One and it is Unique. We can easily see that two Supreme Principles can never coexist, because even if we assume – through indirect proof – that an alternative could exist, then the other must be excluded. For the same reason, it must be almost naturally understood that it is not possible for two Absolutes or two ‘Wholes’ to exist. And in the same way, it is absolutely impossible for two or more Infinites to exist. Accordingly, it can be understood – even intuitively – that the Ultimate Truth, or the Godly Truth, is always One. This is why we can speak of the unique character of the Ultimate Truth, because in its essence it is endlessly, absolutely identical with the Supreme Principle, which is non-differentiated from this original Unity. The Truth affirms or underlines a correspondence or a mirroring that enables authentic knowledge.
Sages have said that the Ultimate Truth never was and never will be a creation of the human mind. The Godly Truth has an eternal enigmatic existence that exists through itself, independently of us. Our role, which is also one of our fundamental missions (the first being the direct and unmediated knowledge in our inner universe of God the Father’s reality) therefore requires that we get to know, through direct and unmediated revelation, the Ultimate Godly Truth.
It is also essential to realise that outside of this knowledge in our own inner universe of the Godly Ultimate Truth, through direct and unmediated revelation, only error subsists in each of us. For some, this is difficult to understand at first, but if the above is analysed attentively, we can easily see that direct and unmediated knowledge in our own inner universe, through revelation, of the Ultimate Godly Truth is the only means to truly generate the cessation of the state of error we are all in, without exception, for as long as we have not come to know, through direct and unmediated revelation, the Ultimate Godly Truth. Only when the Ultimate Godly Truth begins to be revealed within our being are we also removed from the state of error, because within us, for the first time, the wonderful, essential glimmer of the Eternal Light of the Ultimate Godly Truth, which grants us access to the true knowledge that allows us to understand both the inner and the outer reality from the mysterious perspective of the Ultimate Godly Truth of God the Father.
The knowledge of the Ultimate Godly Truth in our own inner universe thus generates an essential transformation of our view and our perspective of reality. Instead of the personal and erroneous view of reality – both of our own being and that of our surroundings – a new and fundamental view settles and remains forever within our being, a view which belongs to the Ultimate Godly Truth. This transforming perspective of the Ultimate Godly Truth gives us the godly guiding marks that we need to properly, wisely, regard both our being’s reality and the surrounding reality.
This knowledge of the Ultimate Godly Truth in our own inner universe, of which Jesus spoke, obviously not only helps us to free ourselves spiritually, but it also liberates us from our erroneous view from before the direct and unmediated revelation of the Ultimate Godly Truth within our being. This is the fundamental secret encrypted in the wise words of Jesus: “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free”.
All great sages, all advanced yogis and all great saints that have attained the Supreme Godly Realisation have succeeded in revealing the Ultimate Godly Truth in their own inner universe, at some stage of their evolution. Only in this way have they truly succeeded in knowing God the Father, and also in transforming their personal, erroneous perspective into one which is new and fundamental, godly, eternal and universally valid.
Sages say that the Ultimate Godly Truth belongs to the gigantic, mysterious sphere of the pure wisdom of God, and simultaneously it is the very ‘object’ of genuine wisdom. We can come to assimilate its knowledge in our inner universe through essential, spiritual, fundamental, immediate and direct perception. Only when supramental, intellectual intuition is sufficiently awakened can we easily contact the superhuman sphere that is precisely the realm of the Supreme Principle. The Supreme Principle is perceived in our inner universe through that which is called by the sages of the Orient and by advanced Yogis as “the hidden knowledge of the heart”.
The Ultimate Godly Truth is obviously being transmitted to us according to its order and nature. But it is essential to remember that, only the Ultimate Truth generates the attraction into our inner universe of the Ultimate Truth that exists in the Macrocosm. In light of these revelations, and in order to achieve this goal, it is important to put ourselves into an inner state of perfect availability and openness towards the Ultimate Truth, or, to enter into a state of ineffable occult resonance that generates an immediate attraction into our being of the Ultimate Godly Truth, through the Ultimate Godly Truth that has already been awakened or revealed in our inner universe.
To attract the Ultimate Godly Truth into our inner universe, it is first necessary to let go especially of the schemes that are based on the limited convictions of the ‘former human’ we used to be, so that we can open ourselves properly and as soon as possible to the manifestation of ‘the secret, clear light’ of the Ultimate Godly Truth. The science of oriental wisdom, as well as fundamental metaphysical knowledge, have not, have never had and will never have another source of inspiration. This is fuelled by no other channel than the channel of the Ultimate Godly Truth.
The Ultimate Original Truth, or the Truth of Truths, represents the Ultimate Godly Truth regarding the origins. It is the Ultimate Godly Truth regarding the actual meaning of the Supreme Principle. The Ultimate Godly Truth is the innermost kernel which is the Essential Truth, or the Complete Truth. By comparison, all partial truths are mere crumbs, or pale glimpses. The Ultimate Godly Truth, a synonym of the Absolute, transcends and soars beyond all the aporia-s and contingent limitations of the manifested World (an aporia is a rational difficulty that is very hard or impossible to solve). Atemporality always bestows an enigmatic status of universality upon the Ultimate Godly Truth that allows it to shed light on all ages and all traditions. The Ultimate Godly Truth illuminates the traditions that open towards the retrieval and absorption of the sovereign lights of the Essential Mysterious Reality.
Knowing all this, it would now be worth asking how many people – especially among those who maintain a traditional and authentic spiritual orientation – consider the Ultimate Godly Truth by itself, in a completely disinterested manner, keeping themselves beyond all affective attachments and the narrow mind-set? It can easily be seen that unfortunately, the answer to this question often indicates that only a very small number make up the extremely closed circle of sincere friends of the Ultimate Truth. Such a spiritual group is one of the few and chosen, in the frame of which the inestimable treasure of Eternal Wisdom – which could be said to represent the atemporal and universal storehouse of the Ultimate Godly Truth – is maintained and transmitted.
Excerpt from the glossary of terms written by yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru.
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November 15, 2018
