GOD is infinite. He is beyond the opposites of good and bad, right and wrong, virtue and vice, birth and death, pleasures and suffering. Such dual aspects do not belong to God. God is the only reality If we take God as one separate entity, He becomes one term in relational existence. Just as good is the counterpart of bad, God becomes the counterpart of not-God, and the Infinite comes to be looked upon as the opposite of the finite. When we talk of the Infinite and the finite, we are referring to them as two, and the Infinite has already become the second part of the duality. But the Infinite belongs to the non-dual order of being. If the Infinite is looked upon as the counterpart of the finite, it is strictly speaking no longer infinite but a species of the finite, for it stands outside the finite as its opposite and is thus limited. Since the Infinite cannot be the second part of the finite, the apparent existence of the finite is false. The Infinite alone exists. God cannot be brought down to the domain of duality. There is only one being in reality and it is the Universal Soul. The existence of the finite or the limited is only apparent or imaginary.
You are infinite. You are really everywhere. But you think that you are the body, and therefore consider yourself limited. If you think you are the body which is
sitting, you do not know your true nature. If you were to look Apparent existence of the finite within and experience your own soul in its true nature you would realise that you are infinite and beyond all creation. But you identify yourself with the body. This false identification is due to ignorance which makes itself effective through the medium of the mind. Ordinary man thinks that he is the physical body. A spiritually advanced man thinks that he is the subtle body. The saint thinks that he is the mind. But in none of them is the soul having direct self-knowledge. It is not a case of pure thinking unmixed with illusion. The soul as soul is infinite—aloof from mind or body—but owing to ignorance, the soul comes under the sway of the mind and becomes a “thinker,” sometimes identifying itself with the body and sometimes with the mind. From the limited point of view of a person who has not gone beyond the domain of maya, there are numberless individuals. It seems that there are as many individuals as there are minds and bodies. In fact, there is only one Universal Soul, but the individual thinks that he is different from other individuals. One and the same soul is ultimately behind the minds of seemingly different individuals, and through them it has the multifarious experiences of duality. The One in the many comes to experience itself as one of the many. This is due to imagination or false thinking.
Thinking becomes false owing to the interference of sanskaras accumulated during the process of the evolution of consciousness. The cause of false thinking The function of consciousness is perverted by the operation of sanskaras which manifest themselves as desires. Through many lives, consciousness is continually being burdened
