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2.0 out of 5 starsShallow
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2021
Kinda preachy. Seems to focus on the slit. The ‘slit’? Yea, the ‘other’ (a description by Sri Yoganada), the eternal one, the one who’s ways are beyond our ability to fully understand, the one who is above all, through all, and in all somehow formed a slit in eternity. We call that slit ‘time’. I believe the slit started in the first three words in the Bible, “In the beginning...”. It was the beginning of something, but certainly not the beginning of God or of eternity. Things which exist within the slit can be detected, measured, and described by using our five natural senses. But ‘the other’ dwells in eternity. If my focus is on and within the slit and I somehow were able to travel at the speed of light for one billion years, I could say, “I’ve traveled a long ways. But if my focus is instead on the distance I’ve traveled in relation to the edge of eternity, then surely it is as if I’ve not ever moved; for eternity has no edge. Even if I traveled at the speed of light for one hundred billion years or one trillion years I’d be no closer to the edge of eternity than I was on day ‘one’ of my journey. In reality I’ve not even moved. This is a polymathic issue. Focusing on only one aspect of this issue causes a person to miss the big picture. Thinking about all this compels my to ask questions similar to the ones asked by the apostle James and by V’ger. James asked in 4:14, “...what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (KJV). And V’ger asked two amazing questions, “Is this all that I am? Is there nothing more?” (V’ger, the nemesis in the movie , ‘Star Trek, The Motion Picture’. V’ger had been everywhere, seen everything, experienced everything, and was the most powerful force. But was still empty and was searching for it’s creator but didn’t know who or what it’s creator was.). I’ve never meet anyone who could tell me any details about their great, great, great, great, great grandparents, or even cared to know anything about them. And it would be foolish for me to believe that my great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will feel any different about me. So yea, I wonder about the importance of almost everything I do in this life, this blink in eternity. Why am I here. What difference does it make whether I’m organized or disorganized, rich or poor, have a high school diploma or a PHD, live in a 40 year old mobile home or a 10,000 square foot house, drive a 20 year old Dodge or a new Rolls Royce, drink a six pack every day or am a leader in the temperance movement? So what? Within ‘the slit’ it may be important, but on an eternity scale, the blink of time I exist in, does it matter? I’ve come to understand that it is as Pope Francis said, “The Name Of God Is Mercy” and as Marvin Gaye sang, ‘Only love can conquer hate.’
