Kathleen said the other day that the Mother is love and the Father is peace. I agree with that.
Of course both are All, but I understand what she’s saying.
The Mother is the energy of love that creates, preserves and transforms the worlds. She can and does manifest as a sound, a universal creative vibration that we call Aum, Amen, the Word that is God and the music of the spheres, the voice in the silence and the voice in the wilderness.
The Father is void of anything material but certainly not void of bliss, wisdom and … peace. The Father does not speak and does not move. The Father is ultimate emptiness, Lao Tzu said, (1) the windless place in which the lamp does not flicker, the still pond in which the Moon is reflected. The Father is stillness, calmness, equanimity, serenity,
Hindus represent Shakti in some statues as dancing on the recumbent body of Shiva. Shiva is at rest, reclining, peaceful. Only Shakti moves and dances.
So the spiritual significance of peace is that peace is the Father. Beyond peace on Earth, beyond Ascension, beyond anything that happens in our universe or any universe is the Father, still, silent, void. And being peaceful is the closest we can come to being as the Father is.
Our assignment in life is to know the Father. That means not just intellectual knowledge – concepts, thoughts, beliefs.
It means not just experiential knowledge – feelings and sensations.
It means realization or realized knowledge, that starburst of awakening and deep understanding that comes complete with confidence and certainty.
Shankara explains the matter:
“Men may recite the scriptures and sacrifice to the holy spirits; they may perform rituals and worship deities – but, until a man wakes to knowledge of his identity with the Atman [the Self, the Christ], liberation can never be obtained; no, not even at the end of many hundreds of ages.” (2)
Waking to our identity with the Atman or Self is the pre-requisite to waking to the Self’s identity with the All Self. And that too must be turned from a temporary heart opening to a permanent before liberation occurs. (3)
Only the abiding realization of the Father allows us free passage out of this world of the ten-thousand things. The spiritual significance of peace is that it leads to this abiding knowledge of the Father.
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Footnotes
(1) Lao Tzu, The Way of Life. The Tao Te Ching. trans. R.B. Blakney. New York, etc.: Avon, 1975, 68.
(2) Shankara, Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. trans. Swami, Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 33.
(3) Sahaja Samadhi, the knowledge we gain when deep inside the Fifth Dimension.