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The Doctrine of Vibration
All the multiplicity of the world is real, completely real. If we were to say that it's unreal in any way, even in its diversity, as the Vedantans would say, we would be saying that God isn't real. This is a doctrine of reality which is simultaneously deceptively simple but also very complex. Shiva is everything, but it's not a simple or crude pantheism. He is more than that, infinitely more. But his condition of surpassing his own manifestation does not in any way cause him to be separate from that manifestation. And just as the world comes to be through this process of Shiva concealing himself, it also always goes back and comes
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