On Being a Thought

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My WhatsApp friend, Rina Samad, posted this and I would like to share it with you:

On Being a Thought

Self:               Am I real, or am I just Your thought?

The Divine:     You are the way I experience this moment from within.

Self:               So I don't exist apart from You?

The Divine:     Nothing does. But in you, I forget Myself to remember anew.

Reflection:

If we are thoughts in God's mind, then identity is not fixed, it's fluid, exploratory.
The self is not an illusion, but a temporary pattern of Divine attention.

There is only Divinity. To a dualist, Divinity is a Being separate from all of us while to a non-dualist, Divinity is an integral part of all of us. I shall not delve into that mystery, which is the starting point of each person's belief system. 

Every scripture teaches that Divinity is within us. As an advaita vedantist, I see Divinity embedded in everything - from every subatomic particle to every astronomical body and encompassing everything in between. Every form of energy, known and unknown to science, is included in Divinity!

There is no Other. You can say that in Sanskrit or Pali or Aramaic or Ancient Arabic.

Every form that we see is a manifestation of a "thought" in the "mind" of Divinity. We are also such "thoughts". In that sense, we are creations of Divinity. Evolution is a Divine thought process.

The Big Bang, from which matter and energy emerged, is a Divine thought process.

The formation of particles and the coalescing of particles into stars and galaxies is a Divine thought process.

The formation of organic molecules and their coalescing into organisms is a Divine thought process.

The evolution of higher lifeforms is a Divine thought process.

There is some question about the evolutionary gap between the human species and the next highest evolved primate species. There is some question about humans possessing some characteristics which run counter to natural selection. There is the suggestion that the human species was in fact engineered by another more highly evolved lifeform.

Even then, that more highly evolved lifeform would also be part of the Divine thought process. So we would still be creations of that Divine thought process.

We are the means through which, the Divine can experience the world of our five senses. But to fully appreciate the magnificence of this world, the Divine needs to be devoid of all other experience. Thus we are born knowing nothing. We see our world with fresh eyes and learn everything anew.

Is there a purpose in this? I have my thoughts, which I have expressed elsewhere.
We each have to seek out our own answers.