That nectar of Immortality, which is myself is like the sky. All the instruments of the sense organs that are used to perceive this world are like the space. All the objects that you see and understand are like space too. Know that this one consciousness is alone and pure. It is neither bound nor liberated.
These words of Dattatreya are reflected today in the modern science of quantum physics and the study of the Higgs Boson or God Particle. All material objects that constitute this universe is nothing but empty space. Your body and mine are nothing but empty space. How is that? You may ask. Well, let us take it from here. Take this newspaper in your hand right now. This newspaper was empty blank white space, before these words were printed. The paper itself made from fibre or wood pulp is composed of the building blocks of matter — atoms, molecules and particles.
What is an atom? It is a combination of protons, electrons and neutrons spinning in a maximum of empty space. The newspaper in your hand is made up of atoms which have these three things spinning in empty space. You are holding empty space in your hand, believing it is an object called the newspaper.
Now let us take the person holding the newspaper. It is yourself. You are made up of cells, which have a maximum percentage of water, atoms, molecules, sub-atomic particles and quarks. What are all of them doing? They are spinning in empty space! So who is holding the newspaper? Empty space is holding empty space? Why do you, who are nothing but empty space, think or feel you are somebody holding something in your hand? This is because you are vibrating at a different frequency and the object is vibrating at a different frequency.
When two different frequencies come together, there is a perception of an object. It is as simple as this. When everything is going on well with your life, it means that your heart is resonating with the hearts of your loved ones around you. So life goes on imperceptibly smooth. The moment, there is a dissonance in the emotional frequencies you experience a clash and a duality of myself and the other person. Duality arises with different frequencies clashing and colliding. Oneness is experienced when there is zero frequency. Shri Dattatreya says that empty space perceives empty space.
That nectar of immortality, which I am, like the sky is not very difficult to understand. Truth is very simple. It is like empty space. There is nothing in it. Once I remarked to a friend that I loved terrace spaces, and he shot back, “What is there to like in a terrace? There is nothing in it!” True, there is nothing, but unable to accept that truth is nothing and as simple as that, the mind makes it complex and tries to figure out how to reach it.
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