Explain the universe ...!

[Guest guest]

Dear B., could you explain the universe.

 

Dear M., that is a very difficult question. Einstein tried to do it

and failed and died with this as the biggest regret of his life.

 

Every big book on truth begins with the sentence "the truth can not

be talked about" before it goes ahead talking about the truth in next

fourteen hundred pages.

 

Some wise men have wisely remarked that the life is to live not to

understand, it is not a jigsaw puzzle to solve. Only a mind can have

such a question and only a mind can try to understand or explain it.

But, question is valid nonetheless.

 

Many sages and enlightened masters of the past have wisely refrained

from talking about it or have talked only in symbols. Because,

whatever one says would be lie. The words would become lie even

before they leave one's lips. The thought itself is lie. How can you

talk about it. And, whatever you say would be subject to controversy,

confusion and ridicule. Because, how can talk about the real truth.

The truth is all around you. You can see it, feel it, you are it.

But, when you talk you can talk of only a very small fragment, only a

very insignificant and incomplete part, you can talk of only one

dimension ...the dimension of the mind. And, the truth has so many

dimensions, it is infinite ...the dimension of mind is just a very

small insignificant fragment. So whatever you say will be incomplete

and false.

 

The other reason for not being able to talk about the truth is ...the

lack of outside perspective, lack of distance, lack of subject-object

relationship. We all are the intrinsic part of the same truth and

thus understanding it fully is inherently impossible ...we lack the

distance, the truth is not an object, it is the ultimate

subject ...and, we are it. We all are part of the same truth ...even

enlightened masters are. Thus no real knowledge, no real talk ...is

ever possible.

 

With that background, we can now begin to talk knowing fully well

that all talk about the truth is just talk and all talks about the

truth ultimately just becomes a story. You are the truth and complete

silence is only possible communication of the truth.

 

When you go deep into meditation, what do you see – a complete empty,

unbound space which is fully conscious aware and alive. It feels so

real, so much there, so real. It is real ...but, it is not something

that you can touch, smell, cut or weigh. It is not something that you

divide and examine under a microscope or weigh on a scale. It is not

something that you can run through a litmus test in a laboratory. You

are its only litmus test. You are its only laboratory. And, it is as

real as you because essentially ...it is you.

 

You look outside and all you see is ...space, empty space, complete

void, absolute nothing. A void that has no limit ...in time or space.

A void that has boundaries, ...no history. A void that is ...before

and after. A void that can't be cut, burnt, made wet. A void that you

can't touch, that you can't talk to, that you can not ask question

from ...but yet, when you go in deep meditation, the body drops, the

barrier drops, the boundary drops and all that remains is the ...void

inside and out, here and about ....everywhere ...in infinity and as

eternity. It remains exactly same whether you go into meditation

today, ten years back ...or ten years later. It remains exactly same,

it tastes exactly same.

 

Scientists looked under the atom and found 99.99% of the same void

that you see outside and some small particles that they haven't been

able to look within yet. So far, they think it is indivisible, it is

the very base matter. Destroying these particles requires huge energy

and release enormous amount of energy before the particle disappears

into void ...becomes a void. In another experiment, they have also

concluded that these tiny sub-atomic particles are able to

communicate with each other instantly irrespective of their distance.

But, there is nothing between them ...other than the void. The void

that see outside ....as the infinity, ...as the billion miles between

the stars.

 

They have also concluded that each form, each matter, each substance

is the known universe is just a combination of the same basic void

and same sub-atomic particles and all these particles are present in

everything ...only their combination and ratio differs.

 

Of course, there is a big danger is using any `scientific' data

because science evolves and often completely contradict its previous

theories, sometimes even the observations.

 

Now, we have some dots on the paper and we might try to connect them

together.

 

.....everything is essentially the same. Just like every water drop in

the ocean is the same, just like every ray of the sun is same. Life,

conscious, awareness, void, nothing are essentially same ...just one

and it is the same no matter how many times you divide it.

 

Rest all is just manifestation, combination, coming together, going

apart ...combining, joining, manifesting, ...game, play, maya,

leela ...my father meeting my mother and me meeting my

wife, .........hydrogen meeting oxygen.

 

What we call `me', `I', `person', `individual' is just a bubble

formed in this infinite ocean. What we call an `ego' is just this

convenient bubble that the sea forms to provide the drop momentary

isolation, apparent separateness ...with the possible attempt to let

the bubble defend itself, let the bubble last. It is the bubble made

by the existence (and by and help from individual as the individual

too is part of the same existence, ...is the same existence) around

individual form to provide some apparent safety, protection and a

sense of independent existence ...perhaps, required for growth.

Maybe, it is just a step in evolution. Maybe one day the existence

(and the individuals as being the intrinsic part of the existence)

will learn to live individually without needing an ego ...perhaps, in

total unconditional love.

 

....perhaps, it will take long time ...coming. Until then ...there is

bubble around the individual forms ...

 

The bubble gone ...it is just the ocean again ...with some other

bubbles still floating and shining in the sunshine ...in seven

colors ...with some dirt inside and ...some surf in the periphery. It

was the same ocean, however ...even inside bubble and the bubble was

never really separate from the ocean ...it was just floating ...just

thinking ...just shinning in ...the sunshine ...still made up of the

same ocean ...floating in the same ocean and ...is ...of the same

ocean.