2. At present, I understand this only intellectually. It has not yet become a living realization. Still, even if it occupies only a tiny space in my mind, it is slowly growing; I hope so.
3. I pray that one day (in this or the next life) it becomes a complete realization. Its full realization and descent into every part of the being is a Herculean task. Only the Mother’s Grace can make it possible.
4. In my high school days, I believed that by reading the scriptures I would come to know the Divine—who He is, who I am, why I exist, and the purpose of life and its Endgame. The reverse happened, and I eventually became agnostic.
5. The ordinary human mind cannot know the Divine by its own effort. It simply does not have that capacity.
6. The Divine reveals itself, and that revelation is received by the psychic being. Through the psychic being, the entire nature gradually grows into the Divine.
7. In spiritual sciences, true knowledge is not merely conceptual. To truly know is to become what is known. The knower and the known become one. To be is to know. To know is to be.
Is this understanding broadly correct? If not, where am I mistaken? I would sincerely appreciate any corrections or deeper insights.
This is broadly correct. Yet, in the manifestation or creation, we have to make a distinction between the Divine as He manifested in the past and as He will in the future. So all is the Divine can be misleading unless we mean that all is the Divine in essence. At the same time, in terms of manifestation, creation moves from the lesser to higher and higher forms of expression of the same Divine. The child in the womb, the infant and the adult are the same child or the same person, but one cannot deal with a child as if he is already an adult.
Seen this way, your agnosticism was a stage from infancy of the soul through childhood towards adolescence, now moving towards adulthood.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
