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Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi & Meister Eckhart (Spiritual Masters. East and West)

Great potential within this book for those seeking liberation, although it may be difficult to understand, because this ultimate truth cannot be expressed into words being that Communicable meaning is restricted within the following categories:
Genus
Action
Quality
Relation
And Since the Absolute transcends these categories—it does not belong to any genus, performs no action, has no quality, and enters into no relation with “another” apart from itself—it “cannot be expressed by any word”

How then can intrinsic knowledge of the Absolute be acquired?
Solely from the paramarthika perspective, the view point from the Absolute itself.
Through the vyavaharika perspective, the relative viewpoint of the Absolute through namarupa (name and form) the transcendent Absolute is inexplicable.

The universal wheel, spinning round and round in the great nothingness.
Upon the gyration of existence all creatures are subjected to birth, death, and rebirth.
Colliding, sliding, and gliding, many worlds orbit the Great Flame.
Baptized with fire, the molten earth is caressed by raging winds as cavernous excretions set free noxious chemicals.
Perpetual contradiction is the effect of perpetual motion, each moment’s particular nexus conflicts with successive moments.
That which is permanently self contradictory in nature cannot be said to truly exist.

Existence is the continuance of being.
This would include the manifest, the unmanifest, and the substance that is the essence of both.
This is Being.
Immutable and eternal from the view of it’s manifested effects, insofar as it is the immediate cause of that which is done.
But what if we are to look beyond the misleading appearance of effect?
Is that which is done latent within that which acts?

That which is before that which exists, and remains beyond the point of extinction cannot be said to be non-existent, nor can it be limited to the confinements of that which exits.
A more accurate, yet equally false description would be that which is beyond existence.
It is non-non-existence that is, forever before the first age began and forever when the final age completes.

The first act is the unacting, the first movement is the unmoving, the first change is the changeless, in spite of the fact that the unacting is not the act, and the unmoving is not the movement, and the changeless is not the change.
That which transcends the unmanifest, that which is Beyond Being, that which is the Causeless cause, cannot be said to be merely that which exists, for any attempt to characterize the absolute through limiting labels is a lie born of ignorance

The ostensive appearance of ceaseless manifestation is similar to a university that studies things which are, rather than that which is. The self, in one eon or another, comes to the remembrance of what is.
When all distractions are gone, the Self is what remains.