LAW OF THREE (43) Time-Space-Eternity (2)

LAW OF THREE (43)

TIME-SPACE-ETERNITY (2)

" I am Absolute, I am timeless, infinite, and I am awareness, without being aware of awareness... Unless there is space and duration I cannot be conscious of myself." Nisargadatta Maharaj

Humanity suffers from a severe case of mistaken identity. The mistaken identity is referred to by different spiritual teachers as the False Self, the Finite Self, the Ego-memory, the Personality, etc. All those concepts relate to an entity which identity and story is derived from the transient world of time and space. 

This temporal identity does not obscure completely the inner dimension of that Self beyond time and space. The spiritual way could be described as the path which leads from a transient identity to a transcendental.     

The transient identity of the ego is relativised  with the awareness of the third dimension of the manifest world.  About this third dimension Raimon Panikkar:

"The spiritual experience that we may call "mystical" does not put us in touch with a third world, but let us experience the third dimension of the one and the same world, opening us up to a more real union with reality" Raimon Panikkar, The Rhythm of Being, The Unbroken Trinity.

Ordinarily we identify ourselves with the transient and the finite. We derive our identity from the changing or the world of time and space, unaware of the underlying presence of the third dimension of the one and the same world would open us up to a more real perception of reality.