You Won't Believe Who the Body Is.

The following interaction was the first time Ramakrishna's 'biographer' met with the Hindu sage privately. It is a good introduction to Who God is, how close He remains, and why, for some reason, we do not notice.

MASTER: "Well, do you believe in God with form or without form?"

M., rather surprised, said to himself: "How can one believe in God without form when one believes in God with form? And if one believes in God without form, how can one believe that God has a form? Can these two contradictory ideas be true at the same time? Can a white liquid like milk be black?"

M: "Sir, I like to think of God as formless."
MASTER: "Very good. It is enough to have faith in either aspect. You believe in God without form; that is quite all right. But never for a moment think that this alone is true and all else false. Remember that God with form is just as true as God without form. But hold fast to your own conviction."

The assertion that both are equally true amazed M.; he had never learnt this from his books. Thus his ego received a third blow; but since it was not yet completely crushed, he came forward to argue with the Master a little more.

M: "Sir, suppose one believes in God with form. Certainly He is not the clay image!"
MASTER (interrupting): "But why clay? It is an image of Spirit."
M. could not quite understand the significance of this "image of Spirit". "But, sir," he said to the Master, "one should explain to those who worship the clay image that it is not God, and that, while worshipping it, they should have God in view and not the clay image. One should not worship clay."

MASTER (sharply): "That's the one hobby of you Calcutta people � giving lectures and bringing others to the light! Nobody ever stops to consider how to get the light himself. Who are you to teach others?

"He who is the Lord of the Universe will teach everyone. He alone teaches us, who has created this universe; who has made the sun and moon, men and beasts, and all other beings; who has provided means for their sustenance; who has given children parents and endowed them with love to bring them up. The Lord has done so many things � will He not show people the way to worship Him? If they need teaching, then He will be the Teacher. He is our Inner Guide.
"Suppose there is an error in worshipping the clay image; doesn't God know that through it He alone is being invoked? He will he pleased with that very worship. Why should you get a headache over it? You had better try for knowledge and devotion yourself."

In calculus or chemistry class my mind would fall into a dreamlike trance--like dreams where the exit ramp was too tight and the tires didn't hold the road or running with legs that seemed like they would not move no matter how I coaxed them.
                                              
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The following information could turn the reader's mind into a non-stick surface.
 
HOLD THE BRAIN LEVEL SO THE IDEA DOES NOT SLIDE OFF!

God is the body. There--I said it.

     The evidence is more than circumstantial. [The usual drill] Move your hand--did it do what you 'told it to?' Of course not. It went all over the place in ways you did not specify. Did it perform EXACTLY as you wanted it to? Probably--even though you didn't specify the rotation, twists, flourishes etc..it just 'did that on its own.' Are you telling yourself some vague story about the nervous system, brain, and some command center that you apparently occupy? Probably-maybe--but then the material slides right off the Teflon onto the floor--"Move on! Unsolvable! Who cares?!"
 
                                        HOLD THE BRAIN LEVEL...

Comment then-- if it is not God, who moves the hand?. That is the practical portion of the presentation. Now look at the circumstantial evidence.
     
1. The body provides an accurate mirror of the mind.
     It does whatever you want it to, all the while providing exacting feedback on the wisdom of, let's say,  5 instead of 3 drinks, driving past the point of total exhaustion, giving an extra angry turn to the new faucet in the bathroom, taking on a profession for the money-a relationship for the sex-a lifetime for a gold watch or paying too much or not enough attention to anything, based on a little voice that says, "Maybe a little more would be good" or "Maybe this is good enough." Scars, zits, hangovers, brain death are just a few graphic illustrations the body gives as feedback. You say, "Of course, so what," as the idea finds itself rubbing elbows with 'why men wear ties' and 'what does sex mean.' We take the symbolic, precise feedback for granted.

2. All bodies are connected physically.
     Think about the air, water, food cycles. Excrement flowing into sewers, along with blood, semen, dead skin cells, or like Charlie Brown told Pigpen about his dust,  along with other body observations.
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkXaSgrTXSg
​We are all in the mix from beginning to end, regardless of how many boundaries and safeguards we set. Per ACIM THIS IS SYMBOLIC! It is not a 'physical fact' it is a metaphysical teaching about something we hate. We take proximity for granted.

3. All bodies are energetically enmeshed.
     It's just a fact that people move in simultaneous synchronization with each other when they are engaged in conversation etc...That movement of the hand whose mobilization defies a clear origination extends to the interweaving of human energy that lacks hard edges or controllable gateways. The Rockefeller research Cabal has figured it out but its used for weapons and advertising, as if there were a difference. We take embedded inter-communication for granted.

4. Molecular biology is not other than 'Deus in machina.' We are clueless as 'worms in a watch' about DNA, RNA, and genetics. Learning how to saw the 'Pieta' into pieces, cast molds and recombine those into other sculptures is not the same as Michelangelo's original work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY&list=WL&index=17&t=24s
We take our incomprehensible microbiological platform for granted. 

"Body" is a word. That is all. A word is a symbol--or as Jesus in ACIM says, "a symbol of a symbol" since the thing it names is a symbol of separation. That's why 'a body can't be God'--it is a symbol of something that God is not. There is sticky nuance in this. The body has to 'not be God' since that is the intention, but like every other earthly aspiration examined in the Course, does our idea about the body succeed in 'eliminating God from body?' More accurately, did 'The Son" succeed in making something [a body] that was not God? Of course the answer is, "No, So what?" So is the body 'inert?' Does it have any agency? You have to say, "Yes." Bullet points one through 4 are not inert, non-intelligent, random fluxes of mindless-bonding. The precision of the body makes the mind dull in comparison. Nature is, for practical purposes, "perfect in every way," especially when compared to human motivations, endeavors, and outcomes.
     "God is the body," or as the Paramahamsa said in the opening, " But why clay? It is the image of Spirit."  We have to call this thing something, and we settled on "body" to obfuscate the absolutely blindingly obvious experience that it is not at all a 'body' as even we would define the bounded boundary of mortal flesh. Spirit--not clay implies, as does the Course, that form is irrelevant to content. "Bone, muscle, and blood" are words, like "the body." Microbiology gives way to molecular biology, then molecules, then quanta, then light--there is no 'flesh' there is no 'body'--but we have to call it something. The hazard of 'calling it something' is that the mind clings to the concept as real in order to invest in it, crunch, grok and work with it. But the only true reality of a body is that it 'symbolizes the separation' and that it is made out of light. Evolution, Pleiadean interventions or The Grays and Archons might be historically accurate. That would not negate the basic 'light formed into symbol."
      It is our vehicle whose possibilities we explore from the first moment of conception. It quickly becomes a tool for navigation, then accomplishment, then enjoyment, and eventually a thing to 'train' by stretching its envelope of original possibilities; mentally, physically, in endurance, in tolerance of the intolerable, in acceptance of what we once found unacceptable. We indulge 'our will' to 'read the riot act' to this body-thing, then beat it one way or another, ignore or ridicule it in a variety of civil or debased idioms, then identify the hill to die on. Then we screw and glue it to our fucked-up, wooden idea of what this whole thing is about, hoist it up in the air and say--good for us, 'Life it a bitch, and then you die."
     Notice we never-the-hell talk to it. Sit down with it like the loyal man or girl Friday it is and say, What about you? Oh, thanks by the way. Ouch, I'm sorry about that". Wanna know why? We know this 5D interconnected environmental suit is God, The Almighty God who refused to abandon his shit-heel Son who has to take the gift for granted or he would die of shame and grief. God loves His Son and doesn't mind the crucifixion and all the other shit we do to Him, our Royal, Loyal Partner in this crime--until we look at Him and say, "What about You. Do you have any ideas about this thing?" 
    If we have that heart to heart, He will remain mute. The body will look back at us like a hound dog, blinking soulful eyes, waiting for us to take charge--in a way, that's been the problem all along. "Okay mutt, it's you and me--let's go birdin'." The partner endures wind and weather with tail wagging absolutely happy and purposeful to shag down whatever the master manages to shoot out of the sky. "That's my God" we say and wonder if we could train it to 'bring me my slippers.' Christians call God as dog the suffering servant, well acquainted with grief. The Almighty Lord has such a small ego His only interest is to exhaust us of our desire to manipulate Him in our fantasies." His love endures forever" spells out the curse/blessing situation. Like so many ideas in A Course in Miracles, if a student locks down the understanding that God is NOT the body, the ego can easily confiscate that unclaimed resource for itself, believing it IS the body.
     A mind whose goal is to navigate a world of forms has no choice but to 'own' the body as resource. The mind that changes its goal to 'think with the New Mind of Holy Spirit' receives the revelation: God did not leave His Son and actually safeguarded his adventure by becoming the seat of the son of God, to inform, accompany, and reward him on a physical journey to answer every impossible question. Then the now-time will arrive when the last interesting realization arrives. "I never did anything. It was always Him." The person on the porch, his slippers, a dead pheasant at his feet and a Blue-Tick Coon Hound with baleful eyes fold into light.