You're Viewing Infinity Through a Telescope

Your mind cannot fully grasp Absolute Space, Absolute Time, or Absolute Intelligence.

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MIT scientists recently stripped the famous double-slit experiment down to its quantum bones. They watched single photons approach two paths. Common sense says each particle must pick one route or the other. But common sense was wrong.

The photons did something seemingly impossible. They traveled through both slits simultaneously, creating interference patterns that only make sense if each particle somehow split itself, journeyed down both paths, then reunited with itself on the other side.

The detectors recorded it. The data showed it. Measurement after measurement confirmed what logic said couldn't happen.

What you're witnessing is the difference between "The Thing as it Is" and "The Thing as it Seems." The Yogis taught this distinction centuries before quantum mechanics proved it true. Your mind is relative and limited. Therefore, it can only grasp incomplete views of reality. Like looking at the ocean through a telescope, you see a portion but mistake it for the whole.

Those MIT photons reveal the Absolute refusing to conform to relative understanding. We draw mental circles around concepts. "Here" or "there," "this path" or "that path." But these divisions exist only in our consciousness. The photon's true nature transcends our either/or thinking. It exists in the Absolute realm. A realm where our relative categories dissolve.

As Yogi Ramacharaka explains, your mind in its present state of unfoldment is relative, unable to grasp the Absolute directly. You understand Infinity only by first understanding limits. You comprehend Eternity only by first measuring time. The very words we use ("particle," "wave," "location") are feeble efforts to express the inexpressible.

So when those MIT scientists observe a photon, they're not seeing "The Thing as it Is." They're seeing their relative, limited perception of something Absolute. The interference pattern emerges because reality refuses to squeeze itself into their conceptual boxes. The photon doesn't travel through both slits. Such language implies separation and division. Rather, it exists in a state beyond the relative concepts of "here" and "there."

This is why meditation matters. Because in stillness, you begin to recognize the relativity of your own perceptions. The boundaries you normally accept—between self and world, between past and future, between possible and impossible—reveal themselves as mental constructions. Useful constructions, perhaps. But constructions nonetheless.

Your mind cannot fully grasp Absolute Space, Absolute Time, or Absolute Intelligence. But by understanding its own limitations, by recognizing that every measurement, every division, every category is a relative conception, you inch closer to truth. The double-slit experiment is nature's way of showing you that your mental circles cannot contain the ocean of reality.

Trust your senses for navigating the relative world. But remember… you're viewing infinity through a telescope. You're measuring the ocean with a teaspoon. You're calling that small circle of vision "everything."