VBT – Meditation 102.4
Rhythm Of Opposites
It has been forced again and again in our minds that somewhere in the past, God created the world – and then and there creation finished. Christians have a story that within six days God created the world and on the seventh day he rested. That’s why the seventh day, Sunday, is a holiday. God took a holiday on that day. In six days he created the world, forever and ever – and since then there has been no creation. Since the sixth day there has been no creation. This is a very dead concept.
Tantra says God is very; creativity. Creation is not a historical event that happened somewhere in the past – it is happening every moment, God is creating every moment. But again language creates a problem and we say, “God is creating.” It feels that God is someone who goes on creating.
No, the very creativity that goes on moving and moving every moment, that very creativity is God.
So you are in creation every moment. This is a very alive concept. It is not that God has created something somewhere and since then there has been no dialogue between man and God, there has been really no connection, no relationship – he created and the thing was finished. Tantra says that every moment you are being created, every moment you are in a deep relationship with the divine, with the source of creativity. This is a very alive concept.
Through this technique you will have a glimpse of the creative force, within and without. And once you can feel the creative force and the touch, the impact of it, you will become totally different, you will never be the same again. God has entered you. You have become an abode.
You can be creative only if you can contain all the opposites.
One of the greatest poets, Walt Whitman, is reported to have said, “I contradict myself because I am big, I contradict myself because I contain all the opposites, because I am all.” The same thing can be said about Shiva, about Tantra.
Tantra is the search for the rhythm of opposites, of contradictions. Contradictory, opposite standpoints become one in Tantra. This has to be deeply understood, only then will you be able to understand why there are so many contradictory, different techniques. Life is a rhythm between opposites: male and female, positive and negative, day and night, birth and death. Between these opposites moves the river of life. The opposites are the banks – they appear to be contradictory, but they are co-operative. The appearance is false. Life cannot exist without this rhythm between the opposites. And life contains all. Tantra is neither for this nor for that – Tantra is for all. Tantra has no standpoint of its own really. All standpoints that are possible are contained in it. It is big. It can contradict itself because it contains all. It is not partial, it is the whole. Hence it is holy.
All partial standpoints are bound to be profane; they cannot be holy if they don’t contain the opposite.
They may be logical and rational, but they cannot be alive. Wherever life exists, it exists through its opposite. It cannot exist alone, the opposite is a must.
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