Churnings
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
Would you like to sigh that you were an ordinary worm?
Would you like to cry that you are helpless, trapped in a coccoon?
Would you like to sing that you will be a flying glorious butterfly?
Would you like to skeptically dismiss all of the above as fancy poetry?
Would you like to appreciate all of the above as life?
Cyclic Time
Wherever we look around us, we find that nature operates in a cyclical fashion. There is reason for every change but there are different kinds of changes and different reasons for these changes.
From the start to the end of any instance of a given lifecycle (system under observation), the changes are typically incremental with enough inputs of unpredictability to make it unique. Occasionally there are changes that are large and wreak havoc with the souls facing these changes. The reasons for these areas of unpredictability can be only seen from the bigger picture of things which impact the system from outside. No system under observation is in isolation, so changes in areas outside the system bring about these "unpredictable/illogical changes". i think you must be familiar with the concept of the "Butterfly effect". A butterfly flapping its wings in China could trigger a chain of events that give rise to a thunderstorm in the US...
Examples abound: take your own daily life.
When we understand life from the karmic perspective, we see that the world operates on karmic forces and karma is a prime mover. Events occur on the basis of multiple souls having the possibility of various karmic accounts cleared. This causes many events to happen in an inexplicable way because, we can only explain the forces that we are aware of. An earthquake or an accident may be fatal to a few, traumatic to some, impactful for some others and a non-event for most. Only the big picture and understanding the natural laws at that level can explain these uncertainities at a theoretical level.
Then we find that the transition point between lifecycles are fundamentally different from the actual lifecycles. Lifecycles are continuous graphs. Transitions are singularities.
* Order to Chaos is continuous. Chaos to Order is singular.
* Birth to Death is continuous. Death to Birth is singular.
* A project lifecycle is continuous. Moving to next project is singular.
* Rainwater movement to the ocean is continuous. Becoming rainwater again is singular...
* Barren trees in Winter to Blossoms of spring... everywhere, unless we know the explanation from beyond the system of observation, the singularity is inexplicable.
The interesting thing is that when we observe any system, it is still a subset of the total(universal) system. The universal system is unobservable from an Einstenien viewpoint as the observers are part of the system and therefore have only relative understanding. Only observers outside any system can have absolute understanding of the whole system.
The Universal system has one constant detached observer. God. God is also involved for sometime in the system but retains the big picture by staying beyond. Those who have access to God, relate to him from their subjective & relative perspectives and so do not get the possibility of the same absolute understanding. Whether God wants to get the absolute understanding by observing all events and relating the reasons from a science (material) perspective is a different question. Arguably, it is unlilkely as God does not involve in inconsequential thinking. (Called Asochta...)
The Universal system has another speciality. Unlike other cycles, this cycle is bounded by finite time and space. Understanding the finiteness of time and space provides a beautiful insight... events(4D points in space-time) are finite and therefore must repeat in cycles of both space and time.
The transition between two cycles as always, is singular. It is logical. It is karmic. It is a singularity and is undefined by examination of the continuous changes at the material plane. The end of the universal drama is naturally wrapped up karmically to reach its point of logical start.
So what about pioneer and voyager? Matter will come back with singularity of karmic forces. What makes a poor person be born as rich? Or a rich person suddenly becoming bankrupt? Or you to travel to US on short notice on official grounds and 'incidentally' give a course on spirituality to a stranger? Nature thrives on karmic singularities. Karma is the prime mover. And therefore the statement... we are master creators... creators of our destiny and creators of the world in which we live.
Is the above the final word on the topic? No. Is it a reasonable and practical level of understanding of how the world works? To me it is.
