84. Formless and Infinite

Dwelling into Nonduality for a few days or years, one gets to hear these words more often. New ideas, like spirit, arise as concepts for formless and ‘too big to be comprehended’ for the Infinite. But in the game of getting to know nonduality as a concept, these words are to be taken to mean only as their basic meanings taught in school and both will then appear to mean the same, which actually they are meant to be, as pointers of Truth or Reality.

A concept of form is not exactly like only to mean ‘a shape’. Form includes the shapeless or with no-shape ideas too. Thought, emotions, feelings etc are examples of forms that seem to be formless, but not in the actual sense, as formless is used to mean to understand ‘Reality’.

How about ‘no concept’ of form at all, as what is meant by formless. Think of all forms or objects arising in consciousness as forms, that includes pain, love, emotions, visual objects, sounds, tastes etc etc. These are all ‘concepts’ of forms. Absence of these forms, may bring new meanings as their opposites, like tasteless, painless, etc etc. So one can consider ‘presence and absence’ of objects in consciousness as akin to ‘form’ and hence formless would mean a kind of double absence of both presence and absence of any ‘mode’ of forms that ever can be imagined.

Try the same with finiteness. Finiteness can be in space or time. So all visual objects may have finite shapes and all audible, emotional, thoughtful forms may have a beginning and ending of such objective knowing and can be called finite. When not applying finite rules to any experience in consciousness, what is left out is what is a non-experience or what cannot be known objectively. Such unknown objectivity which cannot be any mental concept, is what can be called ‘Infinite’.

So formless and infinite are conceptless concepts and are just pointers to a plain and simple ‘nothing’ as absence of all forms, being present or absent.  This is the ground of our being, which has the power to bring about knowing of all objectivity, either directly as perceived  or indirectly as imagined, both of which can only be experienced in the ‘present’. Such a power of ‘Presentness’ called ‘Presence’ or a feel of aliveness that can give life to all forms and emotions and is a pointer to what Reality is ‘as ‘ us.

There is another way to conceptualise the incomprehendable.  One is to deeply understand what ‘knowing’ is. Knowing is an activity of Life. What if ‘Life’ was ONLY knowing and Knowing was all there is. Assume all visual objects were only a Visual Knowing and sounds were audible knowing and sensations were only the knowing of it and taste was a only a taste knowing etc. That leaves ONLY knowing, split up into different types of knowings, but basically only ONE knowing ability ‘Life” is. Now what if the ‘being’ of all objects like shapes and sounds and thoughts etc. were only the knowing of being and there was ‘no’ objective being, other than its knowing. This means the being of all there is -is only of its knowing, being so, and there was no ‘being’ separate from the knowing of it. This sentence is little tricky, but important. Getting this understanding is all there is to know. It means that all taste is only the knowing of it and there is no taste outside of its knowing so. So there is no objects ever, apart from the knowing that feels like an ‘objective knowing’ like sound or shape. This means, a ‘mere’ knowing is split as if, to have a knowing to a knower and an object of knowing apart from mere knowing to such a knower or an apparent subject. So the knowing has to form two apparent objective parts, seemingly outside of it, both as objects of its knowing, making  one such object as subject and other as object, while both such a subject and object are just apparent split of pure knowing, which is all there is, to no-one, as ‘we’ or to a formless or to an Infinite Knowing capacity only. It means Knowing is all there is, as the knower, knowing and the known -and there is no subject or an object, outside of knowing or apart from being such only in the ‘feel’ of such knowing. All objectivity is inside of knowing and such knowing plays a split as ‘apparent objective part of knowing to apparent subject and the rest of such apparent objective part as its apparent objects. This trick manages to maintain subjective feel of being real to such apparent  subjects and the feel is not allowed to be shaken off, unless knowing itself decides to play it so. Once such a subjective feeling of realness sets into oneself ( apparent) the rest feels apparently real in its objectness.

So reality of subjects and objects as being, is only the ‘knowing’ of it and not apart as objects that are known to a knower. The knower and the known are just objects in the knowing being played out apparently so. The ‘real’ reality is thus pure ‘knowing’ or aliveness itself, as SELF,  that brings about a ‘feel’ to an object of knowing as its subject making the rest as objective to the first object. creating a ‘magic’ called objective creation to such a subject.

So nothing to do, or not do, since all such activities, are a mere knowing of them being so and there is no-one outside of Knowing or Formless or Infinite or Reality ever to work in the direct of doing or not doing. So, who you thik you are, objectively is apparent only, and absolutely free as such, as you are just ‘not’.