Robert Wolfe - Awakening to Infinite Presence, 2016

“Your” True Nature If you go back to the earliest writings, the vedic Gitas and Upanishads, you notice how difficult it was to speak about enlightenment using words.

But over the centuries, the teachings have been refined and clarified. And they continue to become simpler to comprehend.

Even today, though, a seeker—I know from experience— reads many books, watches various videos, and listens to different speakers. Through that piecemeal process, we try to discover the meaning of the teachings. What I’ve found is that, in many cases, some element gets left out or overlooked.

The first thing I’ve noticed, is that people give little thought to some of the key words. The most obvious among these is a word which every spiritual tradition uses to describe the ultimate reality; omni-present.

This omnipresence is what is known as God or the Supreme Being, to some; Ramana Maharshi uses the word Self to describe it. In other words, it’s not apart from the human self; but, at the same time, more than.

Whether we call it Omnipresence, God, or Self, it has crucial significance in how we understand “I,” “you,” and “world” or “reality”: in other words, our life—and what is pertinent to it.

From the standpoint of a dualistic perspective, there is “I” and “others”; or, collectively, “us” and “them.” The “others” and the “them” make up the “world” that “I” am in relationship with, my so-called relative “reality.” It 68