Lesson 36
My holiness envelops everything I see.
1. Today’s idea extends the idea for yesterday from the perceiver to the perceived. ²You are holy because your mind is part of God’s. ³And because you are holy, your sight must be holy as well. ⁴“Sinless” means without sin. ⁵You cannot be without sin a little. ⁶You are sinless or not. ⁷If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful. ⁸Your sight is related to His Holiness, not to your ego, and therefore not to your body.
Some key points here:
- Mind is recognised as being a part of God or the Absolute. It is being used here in a similar way to consciousness or awareness in the Advaita approach. Mind, in itself, is sinless because it is the individual or ego that acrues sin and merit. Mind or consciousness has nowhere to store or acrue good/bad/merit/demerit/karma etc., and as such is like the impersonal witness.
- If "you" are mind, then it follows that "you" as your natural state and true nature, are actually sinless, regardless of how confused "you" are right now in terms of identifying with the false self / ego.
- Sight, (or awareness) is actually related to one's true nature as just consciousness, and isn't originating from the body at all. Yes, the body contains the instruments of sight, being the eyes, however, sight extends to more than just physical sight, and includes mental images and awareness itself.. as such, it is a characteristic of mind or consciousness.
- Following on from these points, the exercise for today is one of recognising again and again one's true Self, and the fact that the holiness or purity of this Self shines out and envelopes all apparent objects in one's experience.. as such they are enveloped in holiness and purity, being an expression of just this pure mind or conscious awareness.
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