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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harkiran Kaur" data-source="post: 184456" data-attributes="member: 18224">Chaz Ji, Once again you and I think so much alike!! For me, once I had ONE realization, everything else made sense.  Reincarnation? No reincarnation? Didn't matter because I knew that everything was really ONE so in sense both are right, and both are wrong... the questions are really inconsequential because there is only ONE thing in existence and Creator = Creation.  (based on my experiences) The basis of the Universe is not matter... and consciousness is not an emergent property of the complexity of matter.  In fact, I know (through my experiences) that consciousness IS the basis of the Universe and matter arises out of consciousness.  In that way, space / time / matter really ARE illusion... and not just in a metaphorical sense.  Everything in SGGS just makes sense without needing to all be poetic hidden meanings.  The Universe is not just some unconscious accident that happened out of nothing, with a very structured set of rules that somehow wrote themselves... 'Waheguru Ji' is not (to me) merely some metaphorical word to describe the scientific rules that govern the Universe or 'nature'. To me, the ultimate truth is not the Universe, it's not the science that governs the Universe.... to me the Universe, everything in it, and the Creator are in fact ONE in the same.  So the ultimate truth is Creator, which is pure consciousness.Of course, I can never show someone what I was shown through those experiences, and I can never give someone the experiences I have had spiritually.  People are all in different phases of spiritual growth.  And many are in the 'material' and scientific and atheistic phase... and that's perfectly fine because as Sikhs we are encouraged to 'seek' and to learn, and part of learning is being weary of things and not blindly accepting.  I think if I didn't have those experiences I might even lean towards atheism and skepticism myself.   However, I can never take back those experiences now that I have had them.  And anyone who has had similar experiences can tell you (many people dismiss what I have experienced as dreams, or hallucinations etc) but anyone who has had similar experiences will tell you that during them, you somehow feel more awake than you ever did in your whole life, and you just KNOW deep within that they were real... there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever.   Those experiences btw happened long before I actually found Sikhi... in fact, they ultimately led me to the Sikh faith. Because Sikhism urges people to not just blindly follow ritual etc, it teaches you to go for actual experience yourself and gives you the tools to do so.  That's why I was so attracted to becoming Sikh.Anyway to answer the OP.  I believe (know) in Waheguru Ji.  I believe (know) in Waheguru Ji as Creator... as the ONE. And I believe that Waheguru Ji IS the ONE and ONLY ultimate / universal ONE consciousness / truth of existence."Creation was born of the light, and the light is in the creation"</blockquote>

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