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Law
- The rule of conduct recognized by a community or society
including its policies and/or procedures that are binding and enforceable
by its officials or those in authority. It is the control or authority
resulting from the observance and enforcement of a community's or society's
system of rules. In AHAM, we don't regard these as rules or laws, but
rather as conscious Agreements.
All true or just
law is orderly action or movement in consciousness with honest and impartial
purpose and intention; it is the use or movement of power. The real
basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy or activity
of consciousness, which by its action creates the appearance of multiplicity
in manifestation and the opposition between the dual aspects of this
apparently material world.
In Divine Law,
it is or pertains to Causality.
The
Law of Assumption - A formative law in consciousness based
on the simple, irrefutable principle that what you consistently hold
in consciousness, by thinking and strongly feeling it with emotion in
the mind until it feels real or natural, is charged with creative energy
and power and actually forms or fashions itself into its physical equivalent,
that is, into a solid manifestation and/or experience in your life and
affairs.
The
Law of Reversibility - In the science of physics the Law of
Reversibility is known as the Principle of Inverse Transformation.
Simply stated it
is, "Any force which can cause or produce another force as its
effect, can itself be produced or created as the natural result or effect
of making the second force the originating cause." Or more simply
stated, if cause "A" will produce effect "B," then
by making "B" cause, you can produce "A" as the
effect. This is what Neville (Ramana's first conscious teacher) called
the "Law of Reversibility," a term which Ramana prefers and
has used for many years.
A common example
of the Law of Reversibility: mechanical motion will produce electrical
impulses, and conversely, electricity will run a motor. Also, heat causes
friction, and friction produces heat.
Thomas Edison,
knowing this working principle of physics, one day had an insight with
regard to its application for reproducing sound, or the human voice.
If the human voice could cause, as an effect, the mechanical phenomenon
of vibration on the surface of a plane, like a sheet of paper, then
conversely such vibrations must in some way be capable of reproducing
sound, or the human voice. He did not at first know how it was to be
done, but he knew that it had to work, because of this Law of Reversibility.
So, he went to work in his laboratory to make it happen. Today, as a
result of Edison's understanding of the Law of Reversibility, and his
knowledge of physics, you and I can enjoy fine music in stereo. And,
also from this principle, the same invention was later expanded and
developed into our current ability to record and replay whatever we
choose simply with audio and video tapes, CDs, etc.
If a law is actually
a law at any level of existence, then it is a law (or is modifiable
to work) at all levels of existence. So, if the Law of Reversibility
works at the level of physics it also works at the level of metaphysics
- "meta," meaning beyond, or above and "physics,"
meaning the domain of natural physical phenomena. "Metaphysics"
is the science that deals with first causes of all existence and knowledge.
So, the Law of Reversibility also works in the realm of consciousness,
or mind and ideas, just as reliably as it works on the physical level.
This means that
our Attitudes
and moods infallibly out-picture themselves in our physical world as
actual facts, events and experiences by this uncompromising principle.
(Pp. 164-6 The Handbook to Perpetual Happiness by A. Ramana)
Liberation
- The joyous release from body-mind identification, felt as
peace, freedom and happiness, without any observable cause or objective
reason for it, except that it is realized as always, already being ones
true and natural state as the SELF. It is merging into ones true nature,
or divine being, where all action or activity are the natural or automatic
expressions of the one Self, where there is not, nor can there ever
be anything else other than this.
Life
- That quality which makes living animals and plants different
from dead organisms and inorganic matter. It is the Self
appearing, moving or manifesting in matter, expressing itself in terms
of the active force of Consciousness.
It is the energy of Spirit
subordinated to the activity of the Body-Mind,
working to fulfill itself through mental and physical acts, and which
functions as a connecting link between them. Human life is the human
being working to impress himself on the material world with the greatest
possible force, intensity and expression. It is the numerous, productive
ways and opportunities given to us all to discover, realize and express
God.
Life
Force (Prana) - The very energy of life itself; not the physical
energy in itself but rather a different or higher principle that supports
matter and is involved in it. It is the very energy of life contained
in the breath. It supports and occupies all living forms and without
which no physical form could ever come into or remain in being. It is
the very life breath that functions in and as the vital plane of Consciousness;
that is, between Matter
and Mind.
Light
- Primarily a spiritual or divine manifestation of the One
Supreme Being or Reality,
it being both illuminative and creative. Spiritual Light may be called
Divine Knowledge, which is far beyond ordinary knowledge, being the
illumination that comes from above, or beyond, and liberates the being
from gloom, obscurity and spiritual darkness or ignorance.
Lila
- (Sanskrit) Play, or the Divine play of God.
It is that which brings everything into apparent manifestation. It is
God creating and recreating Himself in Himself for the sheer joy, bliss,
humor and delight of it; or the playfulness of participating in this
creation.
"Living
the Truth" - Choosing to conduct your life consciously
and clear, or based on the established, proven principles of Truth.
It is living with integrity and expressing only from and as the Truth
to the best of your ability.
"Looking
at your hole card" (See: "Seeing your hole card").
Lord
- A title or designation given to God,
the Supreme Being,
the Divine
Self
or Absolute Spirit,
being the implicit sovereign Ruler and Sustainer of the Universe. It
is the One Reality, the Creator and Controller of the apparent individual
and the world in which all creation appears in alignment with the function
of nature.
Love
- Unconditional acceptance. It is your willingness for the
one you love to be as he/she is, or is not, without the need or expectation
that he/she change to conform to your needs, wishes, expectations or
requirements. In AHAM, it bears little or no relationship to the usual
concept or idea of love held by society; for example, as portrayed in
the once popular movie or play, "Love Story." Contrary to
usual or popular notion, love is strangled by the felt sense of "need."
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Commonly love is
seen, recognized and felt as an intense feeling of tender affection
and/or compassion. In its pure higher nature, it's the very state of
the Self
in its eminence as pure Being,
prior to and beyond time - in the infinite and eternal now. In its purity,
it is not related to any particular person or thing but radiates equally
and unconditionally in all directions to all persons and all things.
It is the Ananda
(Bliss)
aspect of sat-chit-ananda (existence-consciousness-bliss), which are
the combined mutual aspects of the One Reality of the Self. Love is
felt oneness with God, or pure Being. It is an important functional
basis for clear communication and harmonious relationships.
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