continental slope is the drop off in the ocean.
continental slope is the drop off in the ocean.
what is the drop off in the ocean?
continental slope
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to make this first event more approachable to understanding, baba gives the metaphor of an infinite ocean and a drop of that ocean. in this metaphor, "paramatma" (a vedantic term, for which meher baba says "over-soul" would be the closest western equivalent) is likened to an infinite and limitless ocean. any drop of this ocean (the drop signifying the individuated soul) is the ocean itself, since no differentiation between drops has yet been conceived. if we liken the manifestation of the first urge as the imagined separation of one drop from the ocean, then the infinite ocean comes to look upon itself through this drop as merely this most finite, most limited drop of the infinite and unlimited ocean. it is important to keep in mind that here meher baba is using metaphor and analogy to explain changes in god's imagination and the development of consciousness and that he is not describing a metaphysical ocean or literal drops in any sense. as charles purdom writes, "the ‘ocean’ is a symbol, no more."
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