A REPLY TO RIYA BHATTACHARYA (Riya Bhattacharya) ON AN ABSTRUSE POINT RAISED
And, yet, you are in the very midst of it. Your very personal identity bespeaks of that discreteness amidst the myriad diversity of life. Apparent it is, as it is phenomenal, fleeting and only in relative appearance, while the Real lies as the substratum of all diversity in transcendent solitary separateness, the integrated basis of all this shadowy spectacle.
The objective of evolution is to arrive at this unitary basis of life and existence, this fundamental truth underlying phenomenal relativity. From the many to the One, thus, is the progression of life, the essential movement towards freedom --- freedom from the manifold miseries of life, from the multiplicity that haunts the human mind with its material mandate thrust upon it. Diversity at the surface and unity at the base, and all the gradations in between as layer by layer the deepening mind traverses through the progressively integrating phenomena till phenomena dissolve into the unitary nothingness, the summation of all opposite attributes and tendencies, all conditions contrarily disposed, the resolution of all forces tending towards opposite ends in the progressive phase but intent on the core content in the retrogressive. All radial lines meet at the centre whence they had issued and merge in their source at the end-point of their lives, swooning, so-to-say, in a final ecstasy unto blissful freedom.
But all this is the science of it. There is an art as well and that is the dance of Nataraj in trembling rhythms that career the course of the universe in undulating terms in unending cycles of progression and retrogression, the One to the many and the many to the One, in ecstatic euphoric form, in articulate inarticulate name, the seed symbol of the Divine.
Written by Sugata Bose
And, yet, you are in the very midst of it. Your very personal identity bespeaks of that discreteness amidst the myriad diversity of life. Apparent it is, as it is phenomenal, fleeting and only in relative appearance, while the Real lies as the substratum of all diversity in transcendent solitary separateness, the integrated basis of all this shadowy spectacle.
The objective of evolution is to arrive at this unitary basis of life and existence, this fundamental truth underlying phenomenal relativity. From the many to the One, thus, is the progression of life, the essential movement towards freedom --- freedom from the manifold miseries of life, from the multiplicity that haunts the human mind with its material mandate thrust upon it. Diversity at the surface and unity at the base, and all the gradations in between as layer by layer the deepening mind traverses through the progressively integrating phenomena till phenomena dissolve into the unitary nothingness, the summation of all opposite attributes and tendencies, all conditions contrarily disposed, the resolution of all forces tending towards opposite ends in the progressive phase but intent on the core content in the retrogressive. All radial lines meet at the centre whence they had issued and merge in their source at the end-point of their lives, swooning, so-to-say, in a final ecstasy unto blissful freedom.
But all this is the science of it. There is an art as well and that is the dance of Nataraj in trembling rhythms that career the course of the universe in undulating terms in unending cycles of progression and retrogression, the One to the many and the many to the One, in ecstatic euphoric form, in articulate inarticulate name, the seed symbol of the Divine.
Written by Sugata Bose
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