In The Seed You Are A Tree
By JIRARA
© JIRARA, April 2021
Published by JIRARA
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In The Sed You Are A Tree
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A Gujarati poet of yester years, Akho said: Bijman vruksha tu, vrukshaman bij tu.
In the seed you are a tree, and in the tree you are a seed.
What a profound understanding and the philosophy of the existence of the life. Akho might not be aware of the so called ‘chicken-and-egg’ (CAE) problem, but he has squarely answered it; why bother about the confusion?; just accept the observed and seen fact, rather than worrying too much about, and just get along with the tasks in front of you, the life in a way is too short to live and enjoy.
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Tree and seed
We see both the tree and the seed, one into other,
Tree implicit in the seed,
The seed springing (throwing) up the tree from within,
Love springing up from the self-within,
The tree producing the seed to next produce itself,
The tree is ‘selfish’ - it has ‘selfish genes’ in its seeds,
And yet the trees and seeds live for others to feed on.
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The science has the same confusion for the centuries, and the answers are varying, and a few of many look plausible.
Ekam Satyam, vipraa bahudhaa vadanti: The truth is only one, but the wise say it differently.
Some go very deep into the Cosmos, of course with their thought-experiments (TE), and the studies and the analyses of the then existing theories, and as the research advances, the concepts are modified and they come out with new theories, and notions, and in most cases these look more probable than the earlier ones.
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Beyond Plurality-A Concept
(partly based on Bhajagovindam of Aadi Shankaracharya).
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In and through every cell in my body,
I live (experience) all spots, all times, and moments of varied experiences - I exist.
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Even if my tongue suffers the tyranny of my teeth,
I cannot and do not punish my teeth,
I have to have no special relationship to any part of my body,
I have to equally love all of them.
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When the entire universe is emerged out from one Reality,
Who is there the other, whom can I afford to hate?
All being the different manifestations of the one and only one reality,
Who is special to love or to single out to hate at all!
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Hence strive not, do not waste energy to fight against anybody,
Or make friends with anyone,
Experience the oneness in the universe: the mutual affinity,
And rhythm of the mutual relationship (of the universal objects),
Which are held by one cob-web of love.
In a loveless life of hate and meanness,
Littleness of heart and limited view point,
There is suffocation, sorrow and agitation,
Hence expand and shift your attention,
To the central source of beauty and eternal song.
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Develop a vision to look beyond the externals of life,
And look for the one substratum, the chord of beauty and truth,
Rise above the sense of differences,
You are your own enemy and your own friend-where are others?
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Once we experience the oneness with the absolute reality,
There is no sorrow, no delusion, no illusion, no pain, no agony,
There is nothingness in that state of mind,
And hence nothing actually can affect us!
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In vacuum no sound exists, and in vacuous state of mind no noises,
No sounds, no ringing tones of desires, no pangs and no happiness exist!
We are in total intoxication with nothingness where,
Nothing more than nothingness can exist,
Not even a ray of light!
Not even the so called ‘GOD’,
There in ‘Shunya’ state, the God is nothingness,
And nothingness is God, and having attained that state,
Where is the need of anything-even the need of the God!
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And yet everything is there,
Because everything springs up from the nothingness,
The Modern Quantum Mechanics says so now,
That was told by the (Indic) Seers thousands of years ago,
It says the Universe can come about from the nothingness!
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What a confluence of brilliance of human mind (in fact brain),
Then thousands of years ago when no classical,
And modern physics were known,
And now after thousands of years.
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Perhaps, there is one and only one reality
– There is nothingness from which everything can emerge, evolve,
And there is nothingness into which everything can sink,
Dissolve and evaporate.
– The entire cosmos can sink into ‘zero’ volume-the ‘black hole’.
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Gatusko: From where did and how the life evolved on this planet Earth?
Oksutag: Actually it is very difficult to explain, but one easy theory is to say that, it might have evolved on some other planet and come here, say from GOOK planet, some billions of years ago.
G: Is that the reason why we are exploring the space for last several decades and spending billions of currencies?
O: Could be so, at least one of the reasons is so.
G: If we reach there, and see the life there, then from where it would have come to that planet?
O: I don’t know.
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