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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

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http://sulekha.com/chpost.asp?for...ilosophy&show=0&cid=81253

Last week, Sitaram posted as follows:

In the kailaidoscopically infinite telescoping universes within
universes within universes, we can see that the UNIVERSE of universes
(which is finite but boundless), is like a snake swallowing its own
tail. As
individual universes cease (the end of time and space), it merely
collapses upon itself and gives birth to new universes. Just as the
stars which we observe now may have long since ceased to be (since
the light travels for billions of years), well the destruction of one
universe has no effect upon inner or outer universes. The U of u
(Universe of universes) is an ever imploding yet ever exploding
simultaniety of creation, preservation, and destruction. Yet there
is something which threads through all the pearls, all the universes.

Lord Krishna says: "There is nothing higher than Me, O Arjuna. All
these many universes are strung upon Me as clusters of gems upon a
thread (sutra)."

- Bhagavad-Gita, Book VII, Verse 7

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My additional insight involves the infinite serpent "Shesha", and
Vishnu, who reclines upon that infinite serpent, sleeping, and
dreaming countless universes into and out of being, like a frothing
foam.

Shesha the infinite serpent is the U of u (the Universe of
universes), ever imploding yet ever exploding simultaniety of
creation, preservation, and destruction, a snake continuously
swallowing itself and giving birth to itself simultaneously.

Vishnu is Consciousness itself.

Suspended above the palace of Indra, the god who symbolizes the
natural forces that protect and nurture life, is an enormous net. A
brilliant jewel is attached to each of the knots of the net. Each
jewel contains and reflects the image of all the other jewels in the
net, which sparkles in the magnificence of its totality.

Each jewel, each eye, is the "I" of a sentient being.

"The chalice of this realm of spirits foams forth to God His own
infinitude."
- from Schller's Die Freundschaft, which Hegel chooses as the final
words of his "Phenomenology of Spirit":

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