modern science and cosmology or those of the Abrahamic
religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam).
The difference is profound. For in the Hindu
theosophical traditions of Advaita and Tantra, ‘God’ is not
understood as some supreme being ‘ruling’ like a judge or
politician over Creation and over Creatures of its own
artificial ‘making’. Instead God is understood as identical
with consciousness – not individual consciousness but a
Universal Consciousness out of which the entire universe,
all of creation and all creatures emerge as through a process
of spontaneous creativity. ‘God’, in this tradition, is not
merely one being among others ‘with’ its own individual
consciousness. Instead God is this Universal Consciousness
out of which the entire universe emerges.
The entire universe of ‘matter’ is but a materialisation
of this Universal Consciousness, emerging from its
maternal womb or ‘matrix’ – and not the other way round
as ‘materialist’ or even quantum-physical ‘energeticist’
science has it. For awareness as such cannot, in principle, be
the by-product or property of any force, energy or material
body we are aware of - including the human body and brain.
It cannot - in principle – be a property of matter, energy or
of any thing or being whatsoever – human or divine. For the
Divine is not a being or Being, but the source of all beings
- their primordial awareness of Being.