The English term, Be-ing, has a verbal ending of –ing which means that Be-ing is a verb.  It is an intuition that Being is actively, dynamically, maintaining the totality of all existence of everything, everybody and everyone.  It is an intuition of the Power of Being.  Being in this intuition is not a dead, static or objective-only status of existence.  Energy, life, thought, consciousness and self cannot be excluded from Being, for Being includes such dynamic and subjective qualities.  Spirit and matter, the subtle and the physical, are included in the boundless dynamic of Being.

The Power-of-Being is Absolute Power as expressed in all relative powers, energies, actions and movements of all relative beings.  Being alone is self-empowered with absolute Power.  Only Being therefore has freedom.  To be free implies a oneness of our own being with the total, unitary Being itself.  “Independent” power of an individual self in separation from total, absolute Being, is a contradiction in terms.

As we develop the intuition of dynamic, living Being, our individual being, our selfhood, stands as a node of Total Being.  Therefore, no individual being or self as such (no matter how spiritual, advanced or Divine) can acquire absolute Power and Freedom as these are already and only self-possessed in the Oneness-of-all-Being.  Full-blown Power and Freedom are not acquisitions, but revelations of qualities of Absolute Being.  The ultimate empowerment and liberation therefore take place when consciousness is withdrawn upward into its core, central source-point of itself.  All valid mystical traditions on Earth and elsewhere have always pointed this out one way or another.

Being is mysterious, dynamic and omnipresent.  It is infinitely and eternally more than a mere target of limited intellectual analysis, such as in Ontology.  Ontology has always fallen short of self-experimental oneness with Being.  No ontological philosophy or well-thought-out set of intellectual conclusions about Being will fully, directly or intimately arrive at Being.  Thinking about Being extensively is just a preliminary of Yoga, of Kevalasamadhi, as the Ancient Yogi, Patanjali, has expressed it.  However, anything less than all-out ontological questioning and thinking in full seriousness is just distraction, neurotic foolishness and waste of human life.

The power to consummate Yoga as Kaivalya, Oneness of Spirit, Purusha, with Absolute Being, Brahman, is through merging one’s own increasingly intense and focused personal power with the Power-of-Being, Brahman-Shakti, Sat-Shakti.  This is the Science of Realization through a mantra such as Hum-Suh merged with one’s prana, life-force, in one’s breathing in and out consciously.

I am myself an ancient disciple of Patanjali who taught me all this, including the relationship of Ontology, intellectual fulfillment or perfection, with Yoga, spiritual fulfillment or perfection.  If this little article is of some use to your highest and best aspiration, I am happy to be of service.

©2005 Kevalin Absoluto