Real togetherness is the
relationship between the tree and the earth.
One draws its sustenance from the other.
Both draw life from each other.
Necessarily. Ineluctably. That ineluctability is the real
togetherness. But the extraction is
based on a deep understanding. The tree
needs the earth for driving its hungry roots down as much as the earth needs
the tree for materialising its fecundity.
When the infant draws life
from its mother’s breasts, the mother is enriched too. That mutual enrichment is real togetherness.
Real togetherness is when
man and woman probe into the eyes of each other and see oneself reflected in
the eyes of the other. The other becomes
a lake into which one plunges to emerge in a while with enhanced zest for
life. The breeze of the heavens wafts
through the necessary interstices of that zest.
Real togetherness is the
essence of the apple that Eve and Adam bit into before being ejected summarily
from God’s patronisation. It is
grappling with the waves in the unchartered waters outside the Eden where
Newton, rather than God, calculates the gravitational pull between the apple
and the earth. Where the various avatars
of God determines who can live together.
And, alas, who cannot! Avatars
that have not attained the enlightenment required to understand the longing of
the apple to dissolve into the earth’s entrails and re-emerge like the phoenix
with new life.
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Togetherness is impossible
without Enlightenment. Because
togetherness is a harmonious symphony that transmutes the bestial biped into a
merging raga. A harmony that extracts a
willing surrender which is rooted in the realisation that everyone of us owes
Nature a death.
In the meanwhile, before
the time draws close for the final surrender, real togetherness is a
deliverance. Deliverance from the
preposterous gods that have extracted orgasmic sacrifices from us in their
electronic avatars. It is the
deliverance of the spirit from digital bits and bytes into soulful verses.
Real togetherness is the
mating of the spade with the soil stirring phoenix wings into motion from the
interred ashes. Not the lustful assaults
of the bulldozer seeking mastery over the earth and its genuine
inheritors. Not the assembly of
hallucinated Satsangis chanting soulless mantras about bovine sanctity, but the
assimilation of the eternal spirit that sparkles in all that was, is and will
ever be. It is the ascent of the soul to
the wisdom of the Aham Brahmasmi.
It is the vanishing act of
the Aham at the vision of the eternal
spirit whose creative impulse wafts relentlessly through the multifarious
instruments producing the orchestra of the cosmos. It is the enlightenment that transforms the Aham into yet another flower in the vast
garden of heterogeneous flowers.
Real togetherness is when
the tomatoes can inspire us with new songs.
With melodies in place of tragedies.
With smiles that reduce the miles between you and me.
Very deep
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going down :)
DeleteI wonder if such real togetherness is affordable in a lifetime at all. If yes, I wonder of it can be realized through our humanly senses at all. That culmination. It is the highest rank a man can achieve.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a stimulating post.
Possible, yes. Affordable? Depends. Practical? We have to ask our PM!
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