Having realized and felt the reality of “I” in yourself, you already distinguish the true “I” from its shells, physical and mental, external and internal. Now let us consider the relationship of the individual “I” to the higher and larger - the world “I”, which transcends the boundaries of the personality and that small self-consciousness, which we tend to look at as “I”. The main note of the great truth is the idea of “the unity of everything”. Emphasizing, let us say that we do not mean the Absolute so that the reader does not start thinking to himself - “I am God myself”. This understanding is deeply mistaken and perverse, but people often confuse the absolute and relative aspects of the One.

The Gospel strongly denies such a theory of teaching and suggestion about the “insignificance” of everything. The Caucasian sages were living examples of positive, vigorous, and active power, proving that when they awoke to the sense of consciousness of the true “I”, they gradually threw off the shells of the lower mental principles, and the light of this Self crept out of them so strongly that it almost blinded their less-developed students. Despite this awakening of consciousness “I”, misunderstanding and vague metaphysics arising from the idea “I myself am God” can drive you into difficulty and misunderstanding of the wording. We mention this for the reader to correctly feel the fine line of understanding the truth, and why one should (especially at the initial stage) avoid and be wary of the statement “I myself am God”. This is a hole in the path, which can be entered by starting the path completely correctly. This is not just an incorrect metaphysical conclusion, but much more serious, since in a purely sophistic way it can be argued that movement along the path is an illusion, that everything is “nothing”, there is no soul, that you are a “disguised” god and that He is deceiving himself and thinks that He is you and vice versa. This only indicates that people who were looking for the highest ideals, but not yet liberated from metaphysical theories, are not able to reach logical conclusions and try to obscure or cloud their conclusions.

Some of the Western preachers explain the structure of the cosmos, say that God, as it were, disguises himself, assuming the appearance of various forms, including man, to acquire the resulting experience, because He has infinite, absolute wisdom and knowledge, but lacks experience, which is given only by real-life in lower forms. Therefore, he descends to earth, for the sake of gaining the experience he needs. But is it possible that the Absolute, possessing all possible knowledge and wisdom, felt the need for such “experience” and lived the life of lower forms (including man)? Western philosophers, defending their beliefs, declare that you yourself are the entire totality of being, and with your mind, you create, preserve or destroy the universe, i.e. the whole universe is just a product of your mental activity, just an illustration of your creative power, which you manifest, as if for self-observation. The old truth that a tree is known by its fruit can be applied to these teachings. The philosophy that teaches that the universe is an illusion, criminally created by you (the Gods) for your own amusement, has only one result, that “everything is nothing,” and all you need to do is sit and look at the tricks that you ( deities) get up and at the end, return to the state of conscious divinity and remember with a smile the funny tricks with which they deceived themselves and others for several billion years. People, who accept this philosophy, knowing in the depths of their souls that they are not gods, assimilate only the idea that everything is nothing. This idea leads them to a state of mental apathy and a negative attitude to everything, which causes the soul to sink into a stupor for a long time, and maybe forever.

The teachings of the sages oppose these teachings and confirm that you are a real being – not God himself, but a manifestation of Him who is the Absolute. You are a child of the Absolute. You own all of the divine inheritance and your mission is to discover the qualities and attributes you inherited from your Parent. Do not make a fatal mistake, do not confuse the relative with the absolute, avoid this pit on the path into which so many souls have fallen, do not allow yourself to fall and sink into the quagmire of despair and despondency, do not allow yourself to be sucked into the shadow of denial of everything. For most people, the only reality is this or that authority-which has taken the place of the Absolute in their mind, but do not give in to this, remember your divine origin and your inheritance-left over from the Absolute. Remember, and boldly follow the path, asserting your “I”!

However, although “I” is not God, not the Absolute, it is infinitely higher than we thought before we saw the light. It extends far beyond what we thought it was. It touches the universe in all its points and is in the closest union with all life. At the same time, it is in close contact with everything that emanates from the Absolute, with the entire relative world, and being a face to the “relative universe”, it has its roots in the Absolute and eats in the same way as a child before its birth eats from the body of mother. The “I” is actually a manifestation of God, in it is the essence of the Divine. The latter statement may seem almost tantamount to the statement “I am God,” but there is actually a big difference between the two.

Let us start by looking at how the “I” operates and the matter with which it has to deal.

First of all, we must clearly understand that the matter of the physical body of a person is no different from the rest of matter and is not separated from it, that the atoms of the body are constantly leaving and being replaced by others, while the material is taken from everywhere from the great reserve of nature. In other words, we must understand that there is a unity of matter, underlying all kinds of form and substance. The vital energy that a person uses is only a part of the great all-pervading world energy, moreover, the energy that we use at the moment is borrowed by us from the world reserve and returns from us to the great ocean of force or energy. We must understand that the mind is so close to the true “I” that we often confuse one with the other. Even such an amazing thing as thought is a part of the world mind, the highest emanation of the Absolute, the highest of all, and that below the plane of the spirit and the substance of our mind, which we use at the moment, is not our individual and separate property, but part of the great world reserve a mind that is constant and unchanging. We must understand that even what we feel in ourselves, that which is so closely connected with the spirit that it seems almost inseparable from Him, what we call life is only a part of the great principle of Life, which permeates the entire universe and to which nothing can be added or taken away.

When we realize this truth and feel our attitude to the single great emanation of the Absolute, then we begin to grasp the idea of the unity of Spirit, the attitude of our “I” to all other “I”. At the same time, let us understand that the immersion of the human “I” into the world “I” is not the extinction of individuality, as it seems to many, but on the contrary, the expansion of individual consciousness to such limits that, in the end, it includes the whole Whole.

To be continued...