Cosmic Mail Parent

The Chinese looks upon the universe as an organism

As we shall subsequently see

But the dramatic idea is basic to Hinduism

Now you could speak about Hinduism on two levels at least

One I will call the the metaphysical level

And the other the mythological level

If you speak on the metaphysical level

You can speak only in negative language

You can say what the divine the ultimate reality is not

If you speak on the mythological level

You may speak of what the divine is like

Because myth

Is not a falsehood as one uses the word in a sophisticated way

A myth is an image

A concrete image

In terms of which Man makes sense of the world

Which Man makes sense of the world

Thus, the idea of God the father

Or God the maker

Is a myth

Cause it's an image

Cause it's an image

And Christian theologians distinguish equally

Between two kinds of theological language

Which are respectively called

Cataphatic and apophatic

Apophatic language is negative

As when we say God is infinite

And eternal

Cataphatic language is mythological as when we say

God the Father

God is love

Nor the positive designation

We are not saying God is a cosmic male parent

But that he is analogous with the father

We are not saying God is a cosmic male parent

But that he is analogous with the father

We are not saying God is a cosmic male parent

But that he is analogous with the father

So, with Hinduism

So, with Hinduism

What I'm going to speak to you first of all

Is the mythological language of Hinduism

The idea of the universe as the big act

The universe is God playing hide and seek

With himself

For God is thought off fundamentally to the Hindu

As the self

THE self

The cosmic eye