The Original Sin

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

To forget the Reality is the original sin. Thereafter, we function within the field of the apparent, the known, and show off. The mistake is forgetting Reality from the beginning. In this way, the individual respects that which appears and suffers many calamities. The Self is as He is, always brilliant. It is on Him that all appearances are recognized, and on Him that they are perceived. So as it is He, who knows others, He is always existing, always there. He is beyond all appearances. He who knows all is the greatest. He is the controller of all objects that appear. That which is seen are objects, and being objects by nature, means that they are perishable. The objects of the senses are produced by the sense-objects themselves. This is the mischievous nature of these objects. One who accepts them as real becomes miserable. If you persist in following the objects of the senses, you will surely be miserable, because you will only see that which is "seen". If you see with the eye of "inner experience", He, the Self, is everywhere, inside and out.

Nobody has been able to show up to now just what "the observer" is. Just as the sky, or space, is in each and everything, He is also all-pervading, permeating everything. It is only He, who is in everything in this world. All differences are due to ego. See what a strange thing has happened! God is sacrificed before the goat. In this, it is the ego that sees the difference. The difference means separateness is seen. Where only one exists, two are seen instead. To show that there are two, is the creation of difference, where one is made the owner and the other his slave. However, there was some trick in this. He by whose power experience takes place, the totality of the universe is experienced, and who is the essence of the experience of this cosmos, was made the slave, while the ego is actually not existing. It became an imagined entity and the "true experiencer" was threatened with the possibility that he will die. He was made to pay the penalty. Thus, he was made a scapegoat. The false entity had become "God", but his godhood was cut away by the advice of the Sadguru. This "God" was sacrificed before the goat (duality was dispelled) and "True God" was restored to His godhood. He is the self-existent God. This was the wonder seen.