The Winds of Wonder

3 responses to “I am looking at the day that has no sundown”

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   sylviekabir

   March 8, 2026

   
   Gospel of Thomas, 18:
   

   
   The disciples said to Jesus:
   

   
   “Tell us how our end will be.”
   

   
   Jesus said:
   

   
   “Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end ? For where the beginning is, there will the end be.
   

   
   Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”
   

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      RY Deshpande

      March 8, 2026

      The Aurobindonian life is not a closed cycle, the end meeting the beginning, the snake biting its tail. It is an open curve for endless progress in the Spirit’s vastitudes, in manifestation of its endless creative dimensions, possibilities and possibilities in the Divine glory. There will be no experience of death, yet it is not frozen immortality; it is deathlessness, the form changing with the needs of consciousness.

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         sylviekabir

         March 8, 2026

         
         When the disciples ask: “Tell us what our end will be,” Jesus’ answer completely overturns the perspective: “Have you then discovered the beginning, that you are looking for the end?”
         

         
         The end is not a future event within a temporal progression. It is found where the beginning is. When the text says: “Where the beginning is, there the end will be,” this does not mean that existence is a closed circle.
         

         
         It refers to an identity between the principle and the completion: when one recognizes the origin, one simultaneously recognizes the accomplishment and the completion. The Absolute is at once the origin, the manifestation, and the recognition.
         

         
         The beginning is not a point in the past of the universe: it is fundamental consciousness itself. Spiritual, aswell as cosmic, realization is therefore not an infinite progression toward something that does not yet exist: consciousness recognizes that it is already this original reality.
         

         
         The phrase of the logion: “Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning” simply means: blessed is the one who recognizes his original nature as consciousness. And the continuation then becomes logical: “he will know the end and will not experience death,” because death belongs only to manifested forms, not to the consciousness that manifests them.
         

         
         The logion does not describe a cosmic cycle in which the end mechanically returns to the beginning. It describes a timeless realization in which the origin and the fulfillment reveal themselves to be one and the same reality. Thus the logion does not speak of a closed universe nor of endless progress. It points to something far more radical: the origin is already there, and recognizing it is at the same time the fulfillment/completion/accomplishment. Recognizing the origin therefore does not close the movement of creatio, on the contrary, it reveals its infinity.
         

         
         Absolute consciousness, through its creative power, constantly manifests new forms. Spanda, the living pulsation of consciousness, is an unceasing creative movement in which the universe appears, transforms, and continually renews itself. The source of all creation is always already present, and manifestation can unfold indefinitely: new forms, new experiences, new expressions of consciousness.
         

         
         In this vision, infinity does not lie in an endless linear progression but in the limitless creativity of consciousness itself. In other words: the origin is eternally present, and it is precisely this that makes possible an infinity of ever-renewed creations.
         

         
         One could therefore say that the logion of the Gospel of Thomas, just like the vision of Kashmir Shaivism for example, does not describe a closed universe, but an origin that is always present, and a divine creativity, without end, that flows from it.