Good and Wisdom

Abstract

In the beginning, everything was perfect. We come into this world with the memory of this perfection imprinted in our heart. It maintains the connexion with the spirit. The experiences of this world can darken the recollection, can shadow the knowledge of good, and we need wisdom in order to always perceive it. As Soloviov put it, Good is self justified and offers a meaning to our purpose here, in the absence of which we cannot live to our true potential. The conscience, that is pure knowledge, implies a clear distinction of good; real wisdom presumes an accomplishment into reality. What is reality ? Shankara made three statements: “Brahman is real, the universe is ireal and Brahman is the universe”. I don’t know why some people distinguish the real from the reality. But if everything that exists is a manifestation of the Supreme, then everything is real and good, according to the Creator’s nature. Ilusion itself is illusory... The world looks like a shadow in a tide of light. And shadow needs light. Thus the world appears simultaneously with the observer, spontaneously. I don’t believe in creation as a process, unless the process is the same thing as the event. Besides, there is only a mental construction of