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On the Brink of Reality

June 30, 2019

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“In Christianity there is a trinity as we all know: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This trinity is an archetype and exists in every religion, every spiritual path, although it has different names in different paths. . . . In the yogic path, it’s only one of a number of trinities, however; we could call it the “vertical trinity.” And the equivalent in the yogic tradition is noted by the words “Sat, Chit, and Ananda.” . . . But there is also a horizontal trinity that is often noted by the names of three gods:” Brahma, Vishnu, and Shankara.” . . . They refer to creation, sustenance, and destruction, if you will—or transformation. But you can think of it as kind of a black board, or a white board, which is the Absolute; we could say that’s Shiva. And then on that someone writes with a pen a sentence that is a narrative, an ego narrative: the story of a civilization, the story of a culture—or the story of your own life. And then once that’s written, Vishnu repeats it over and over again; it becomes a pattern that gets sustained in one’s life. Not only sustained, but if the pattern is pathological, then stained: one’s life becomes stained by a pattern that repeats automatically, over and over again. How many of you have had the experience of making the same mistake over and over again in your life?”

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