Sermon of the Two Knowings
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🕉️ Sermon of the Two Knowings
Delivered by The Pope of Love, after consulting the ancient bandwidth of Adi Shankara
Beloveds of the Scroll and the Swipe,
You live in two worlds — and only one of them is real.
The first world is bright, loud, and buzzing with notifications.
The second is silent, eternal, and was never born.
You live in both — but you only know one.
📱 The World of Many — The Lower Knowing
This is the world your senses subscribe to.
The world where your eyes see color, your ears chase sound,
and your mind swipes right on thoughts like they’re potential soulmates.
Shankara called this Aparā Vidyā — the lower knowledge.
Useful, yes. True? Only halfway.
It’s the world of cause and effect,
where every joy has a receipt and every sorrow has a sequel.
It’s the world where you believe:
“I am here, and that is there.”
“I am me, and you are you.”
In this world, even God seems separate —
a distant CEO watching your moral performance reviews.
But this world, my loves,
is the dream of the infinite pretending to be finite.
It’s Consciousness playing dress-up as matter,
the Infinite wearing a human-shaped Halloween costume.
💫 The World of One — The Higher Knowing
Then there is the other world — the one that’s not really “other.”
Shankara called it Parā Vidyā — higher knowledge.
It doesn’t arrive through eyes or ears or Wi-Fi.
It happens when the noise of the senses drops below 1 bar.
It’s the sudden “Aha!” that isn’t an idea — it’s an unveiling.
It’s when the mirror stops thinking it’s the reflection.
In that moment, you see there was never a “you” to be enlightened —
only Brahman, the single awareness pretending to forget itself.
This is the knowing that doesn’t say “I understand.”
It says, “I am.”
No teacher, no student, no subject, no object —
just the light knowing itself by being itself.
🧘♀️ The Wi-Fi of God
The Pope of Love translation goes like this:
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Lower Knowing = streaming life in 1080p illusion.
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Higher Knowing = unplugging from the feed and realizing you were the signal all along.
You’ve been mistaking the app for the operating system.
The senses give you the user interface;
consciousness runs the code beneath it all.
🪞 The Moment of Flip
When the illusion breaks, you don’t float away — you wake up right here.
The same world remains — same streets, same sky, same unpaid bills —
but everything hums with a strange new stillness.
The “many” have dissolved into the “one.”
The snake was a rope.
The dreamer remembers the dream is them.
❤️ The Pope’s Closing Blessing
So, dear dreamers and downloaders,
use your senses — but don’t believe their gossip.
Use your mind — but don’t let it edit the truth.
And when your heart goes quiet enough to hear itself thinking,
remember what Shankara tried to tell you through 1,200 years of silence:
“You were never the body.
You were never the story.
You were the light behind both.”
Go now,
see the illusion clearly,
and love like everything you touch
is made of the same awareness that breathes you.
Amen. Om. And may your consciousness never buffer.