Chinmoy
09-20-2013, 12:36 AM
Blessed Ignorance
After a brief but desperate attempt to jump back into the aquarium it gradually lost control over its bodily movements; the mind was by then working all out only for the natural instinct to try for survival, slowly even the mind gave up and it entered into an infinite nothingness. There was nothing to know how long it had been; but at some point of time it started feeling a soul comforting warmth. There was a mystical haze beyond which there was an infinite glow of light, not harsh but pleasant. There was a natural pull towards the light through the haze. It floated towards the light and entered the haze, because everything had to pass through the haze to see the light. It had no control over anything; not needed too. Everything was happening naturally. It was attracted towards the haze and once inside the haze it suddenly realized that it could look back on timeline; though at that moment it did not know that it would see much beyond the beginning of its life as a lovable creature of limited intelligence in an aquarium.
It all happened suddenly. The boy named Raja was playfully watching the fishes in the aquarium for quite some time and then all of a sudden dipped his hand in the aquarium, caught hold of the fish he could catch swiftly and took it out. At the very moment Raja’s father, while keeping aside the billiard cue, called out for Raja as it was time to go home. The boy dropped the fish on the table and ran to his father. It would not have happened if Raja did not come with his father to the club that day or, may be, even if it did not happen to be the nearest fish when Raja dipped his hand in the aquarium. It was also possible that Raja’s father did not happen to call him at that very moment and the boy would have put it back in the aquarium after a close look that he wanted to have for so many days. Apparently, a few immediate causes the consequences of which had led to the incident.
Oh! strange, when inside the aquarium, it did not understand human language, but now inside the haze he knew that the boy was named Raja and his father called out for him to go home! Yet, of course, inside the haze it was about to see many things that it did not see when it was in the aquarium. It was poised to see things beyond the closed walls of the club room where the aquarium was placed, and on the timeline many happenings that had influenced the incident and had happened even before it was born.
It was always a pleasure when the billiard or pool games started in the evening every day. Firstly, because the room that remained dark whole day was lit by bright lights in the evening before the billiard players came. Secondly and most importantly the attendant of the billiard room sprinkled food into the aquarium after switching on the lights of the room. Raja’s father was a good player and had been champion in a number of club events. In the first strike itself he could pocket a number of balls in pool games. His opponent friend would say “Oh, you are lucky that the third ball entered the pocket only after being hit and diverted by the red ball”. Does not matter. Raja’s father is an expert player and he knows how to hold the cue, on which ball and where to strike, with what force and how should be the follow through. Even before a strike he could visualize roughly where the balls would finally end up. Of course, with so many balls moving in all different directions, being redirected after a rebound or a hit with another ball, it was difficult even for him, for his limited expertise, to visualize what would be the intermediate movements of the balls after a strike. He, however, could visualize roughly where the balls would finally stop. Though a little annoyed, he did not say aloud to his friend that the third ball was destined to go to the pocket just when the strike was struck and not because of any luck neither just because it got hit by the red ball. Being hit by the red ball was only the immediate apparent cause. That the third ball would go to the pocket was a consequence of the strike that had been struck with a big bang.
There were a many fishes in the aquarium; all of different kind, different shapes, different colours, different nature. Some were restless fast swimmers and smart enough to sense the approaching footsteps of the attendant with the food. They always had their share of food first. It was also interesting to see the skinny bright eyed fish that did not scamper around but positioned itself so intelligently that it would always find a piece of food floating towards it. These were the smartest and most intelligent creatures in the aquarium. They had enough intelligence to study the floating behavior of the food particles in the artificial current of the aquarium water. They could even outsmart the rest of the fishes in the aquarium. The rest of the fishes ate whatever remaining food they could find. There was, of course, enough food for all as the attendant was always generous and never failed his duty. These fishes knew about almost anything inside the aquarium; the pebbles, the mosses, the water current, the seasonal changes of the water and what not. They could even see beyond the aquarium; the bright lights, the billiard and pool tables, the score board, the cue stand, the balls rolling on the table, the humans. But they could not understand much about what all these were. And they did not know or could not even imagine what was there outside the room. The very smart ones could sense the approaching footsteps of the attendant; and one evening they were all frightened to see a human kid very near to the aquarium, his nose pressed against transparent glass wall. Raja was fascinated by the colorful fishes in the aquarium and whenever got an opportunity he managed to accompany his father to the billiard room.
Had it not been inside the haze, it would have never known that Raja was once taken to a picnic by his parents when he was five years old and that was only couple of months before the incident had happened. It was there where he saw a man sitting quietly near the rivulet. The man was looking at the horizon, sometimes singing at low voice and an infrequent watch on that part of the water where he had his fishing thread plunged into the water. Raja got curious when he once saw the man pulling the fishing rod with a jerk and there landed a small fish. Raja ran towards the man for a closer look and was even more thrilled when the man allowed him to try fishing for some time. It was from that day Raja always had a longing for catching a fish on his own. Was it this event that had a consequence in happening of the incident? Certainly it was and one of the precursors linked to the immediate apparent ones of Raja coming to the billiard room on that particular day, it being the nearest fish that Raja could catch hold of and Raja’s father calling him at that very moment to go home. There were, in fact, innumerable events happening simultaneously and that had been happening since time immemorial that had a bearing on or had culminated into happening of the incident which itself would be a precursor event for some future happening.
The timeline by now had picked-up good pace. Raja’s father started playing pool since his college days. They played in the town hall club. There were many tables and every alternate day excluding Sunday there was professional coaching. The instructor was a keen enthusiast of billiards and gave his best to train the students. Most of the students picked up the skills of the game up to a certain level. However, only Raja’s father and two of his friends excelled beyond the average level. The key to success, as the trainer always reminded the students, was hard work. For the other students the urge for working hard never came, for there were numerous factors and precursory events not vividly understandable to them, though they appreciated the trainer’s words. Raja’s father liked the game, the balls rolled even in his dreams, he was fascinated by watching the strikes of the trainer who could play so controlled shots that while one ball would go to the pocket the other balls would come to a stop in very convenient positions to play the next shot. There was another factor. Once when Raja’s father was playing a tournament game he suddenly noticed a pair of beautiful eyes looking at him admiringly. That day he ended-up playing one of his best games ever. They eventually met, remained friends for several years and got married. Raja was born two years later. He inherited many biological traits from his parents and as he grew up numerous events happening around him, some noticeably and many more unnoticeably, shaped his mental attitudes and his biological process of emotion stimulating hormone secretion that controls his thoughts and behavior; and five years later the incident was to happen.
When inside the aquarium, it did not know from where, when and how it came in to the aquarium. The timeline is now really accelerating very fast. The billiard room attendant was one day handed over some tiny fishes by the club secretary’s wife to be put in the aquarium and taken care of. It was born in a sea and soon after got caught in a fisherman’s net. It’s ancestors lived in the same aquatic body. No, now it can see on the timeline, that it’s ancestors of several thousand years ago had migrated from a different part and they too looked entirely different! The timeline was racing at an unimaginable pace. It saw some single celled creature. Life was about to begin. There was no life before. The lifeless masses, engulfed by energies having potential to create life, were getting ready to accept and support life. The strike of creation had been struck with a big bang and the incident was destined to happen billions of years later.
It was almost at the end of the haze and was about see the light beyond the haze. For once it wished it knew all these when in the aquarium! But, in the next moment it realized that for the creatures living in an aquarium with only limited intelligence it is not necessary to know all these. Because, it did not matter; what was destined to happen would happen anyway, knowing these would unnecessarily destroy the dynamism of happiness, sorrows, disappointments, achievements and above all the curiosity and hope that keeps life moving. Oh, the creatures with limited intelligence in the aquarium are really blessed with this ignorance. Probably, because of this reason the Creator had pushed the ancient Vedic research, which perhaps could distantly see the haze and the light beyond, to a decline paving the way of material science to popularity.
It had just finished crossing the haze and was about to float in to the light, then suddenly a flash in the timeline came alive. Raja’s father and none around him could feel the breeze that had manipulated some movements of the balls the day when he played one of his best games when the pair of beautiful eyes was looking at him admiringly and with such a spontaneous intense wish that a ray of light was granted for him that day.
The haze was gone and it was poised to see what was there in the light.
Author: Chinmoy Dutta
After a brief but desperate attempt to jump back into the aquarium it gradually lost control over its bodily movements; the mind was by then working all out only for the natural instinct to try for survival, slowly even the mind gave up and it entered into an infinite nothingness. There was nothing to know how long it had been; but at some point of time it started feeling a soul comforting warmth. There was a mystical haze beyond which there was an infinite glow of light, not harsh but pleasant. There was a natural pull towards the light through the haze. It floated towards the light and entered the haze, because everything had to pass through the haze to see the light. It had no control over anything; not needed too. Everything was happening naturally. It was attracted towards the haze and once inside the haze it suddenly realized that it could look back on timeline; though at that moment it did not know that it would see much beyond the beginning of its life as a lovable creature of limited intelligence in an aquarium.
It all happened suddenly. The boy named Raja was playfully watching the fishes in the aquarium for quite some time and then all of a sudden dipped his hand in the aquarium, caught hold of the fish he could catch swiftly and took it out. At the very moment Raja’s father, while keeping aside the billiard cue, called out for Raja as it was time to go home. The boy dropped the fish on the table and ran to his father. It would not have happened if Raja did not come with his father to the club that day or, may be, even if it did not happen to be the nearest fish when Raja dipped his hand in the aquarium. It was also possible that Raja’s father did not happen to call him at that very moment and the boy would have put it back in the aquarium after a close look that he wanted to have for so many days. Apparently, a few immediate causes the consequences of which had led to the incident.
Oh! strange, when inside the aquarium, it did not understand human language, but now inside the haze he knew that the boy was named Raja and his father called out for him to go home! Yet, of course, inside the haze it was about to see many things that it did not see when it was in the aquarium. It was poised to see things beyond the closed walls of the club room where the aquarium was placed, and on the timeline many happenings that had influenced the incident and had happened even before it was born.
It was always a pleasure when the billiard or pool games started in the evening every day. Firstly, because the room that remained dark whole day was lit by bright lights in the evening before the billiard players came. Secondly and most importantly the attendant of the billiard room sprinkled food into the aquarium after switching on the lights of the room. Raja’s father was a good player and had been champion in a number of club events. In the first strike itself he could pocket a number of balls in pool games. His opponent friend would say “Oh, you are lucky that the third ball entered the pocket only after being hit and diverted by the red ball”. Does not matter. Raja’s father is an expert player and he knows how to hold the cue, on which ball and where to strike, with what force and how should be the follow through. Even before a strike he could visualize roughly where the balls would finally end up. Of course, with so many balls moving in all different directions, being redirected after a rebound or a hit with another ball, it was difficult even for him, for his limited expertise, to visualize what would be the intermediate movements of the balls after a strike. He, however, could visualize roughly where the balls would finally stop. Though a little annoyed, he did not say aloud to his friend that the third ball was destined to go to the pocket just when the strike was struck and not because of any luck neither just because it got hit by the red ball. Being hit by the red ball was only the immediate apparent cause. That the third ball would go to the pocket was a consequence of the strike that had been struck with a big bang.
There were a many fishes in the aquarium; all of different kind, different shapes, different colours, different nature. Some were restless fast swimmers and smart enough to sense the approaching footsteps of the attendant with the food. They always had their share of food first. It was also interesting to see the skinny bright eyed fish that did not scamper around but positioned itself so intelligently that it would always find a piece of food floating towards it. These were the smartest and most intelligent creatures in the aquarium. They had enough intelligence to study the floating behavior of the food particles in the artificial current of the aquarium water. They could even outsmart the rest of the fishes in the aquarium. The rest of the fishes ate whatever remaining food they could find. There was, of course, enough food for all as the attendant was always generous and never failed his duty. These fishes knew about almost anything inside the aquarium; the pebbles, the mosses, the water current, the seasonal changes of the water and what not. They could even see beyond the aquarium; the bright lights, the billiard and pool tables, the score board, the cue stand, the balls rolling on the table, the humans. But they could not understand much about what all these were. And they did not know or could not even imagine what was there outside the room. The very smart ones could sense the approaching footsteps of the attendant; and one evening they were all frightened to see a human kid very near to the aquarium, his nose pressed against transparent glass wall. Raja was fascinated by the colorful fishes in the aquarium and whenever got an opportunity he managed to accompany his father to the billiard room.
Had it not been inside the haze, it would have never known that Raja was once taken to a picnic by his parents when he was five years old and that was only couple of months before the incident had happened. It was there where he saw a man sitting quietly near the rivulet. The man was looking at the horizon, sometimes singing at low voice and an infrequent watch on that part of the water where he had his fishing thread plunged into the water. Raja got curious when he once saw the man pulling the fishing rod with a jerk and there landed a small fish. Raja ran towards the man for a closer look and was even more thrilled when the man allowed him to try fishing for some time. It was from that day Raja always had a longing for catching a fish on his own. Was it this event that had a consequence in happening of the incident? Certainly it was and one of the precursors linked to the immediate apparent ones of Raja coming to the billiard room on that particular day, it being the nearest fish that Raja could catch hold of and Raja’s father calling him at that very moment to go home. There were, in fact, innumerable events happening simultaneously and that had been happening since time immemorial that had a bearing on or had culminated into happening of the incident which itself would be a precursor event for some future happening.
The timeline by now had picked-up good pace. Raja’s father started playing pool since his college days. They played in the town hall club. There were many tables and every alternate day excluding Sunday there was professional coaching. The instructor was a keen enthusiast of billiards and gave his best to train the students. Most of the students picked up the skills of the game up to a certain level. However, only Raja’s father and two of his friends excelled beyond the average level. The key to success, as the trainer always reminded the students, was hard work. For the other students the urge for working hard never came, for there were numerous factors and precursory events not vividly understandable to them, though they appreciated the trainer’s words. Raja’s father liked the game, the balls rolled even in his dreams, he was fascinated by watching the strikes of the trainer who could play so controlled shots that while one ball would go to the pocket the other balls would come to a stop in very convenient positions to play the next shot. There was another factor. Once when Raja’s father was playing a tournament game he suddenly noticed a pair of beautiful eyes looking at him admiringly. That day he ended-up playing one of his best games ever. They eventually met, remained friends for several years and got married. Raja was born two years later. He inherited many biological traits from his parents and as he grew up numerous events happening around him, some noticeably and many more unnoticeably, shaped his mental attitudes and his biological process of emotion stimulating hormone secretion that controls his thoughts and behavior; and five years later the incident was to happen.
When inside the aquarium, it did not know from where, when and how it came in to the aquarium. The timeline is now really accelerating very fast. The billiard room attendant was one day handed over some tiny fishes by the club secretary’s wife to be put in the aquarium and taken care of. It was born in a sea and soon after got caught in a fisherman’s net. It’s ancestors lived in the same aquatic body. No, now it can see on the timeline, that it’s ancestors of several thousand years ago had migrated from a different part and they too looked entirely different! The timeline was racing at an unimaginable pace. It saw some single celled creature. Life was about to begin. There was no life before. The lifeless masses, engulfed by energies having potential to create life, were getting ready to accept and support life. The strike of creation had been struck with a big bang and the incident was destined to happen billions of years later.
It was almost at the end of the haze and was about see the light beyond the haze. For once it wished it knew all these when in the aquarium! But, in the next moment it realized that for the creatures living in an aquarium with only limited intelligence it is not necessary to know all these. Because, it did not matter; what was destined to happen would happen anyway, knowing these would unnecessarily destroy the dynamism of happiness, sorrows, disappointments, achievements and above all the curiosity and hope that keeps life moving. Oh, the creatures with limited intelligence in the aquarium are really blessed with this ignorance. Probably, because of this reason the Creator had pushed the ancient Vedic research, which perhaps could distantly see the haze and the light beyond, to a decline paving the way of material science to popularity.
It had just finished crossing the haze and was about to float in to the light, then suddenly a flash in the timeline came alive. Raja’s father and none around him could feel the breeze that had manipulated some movements of the balls the day when he played one of his best games when the pair of beautiful eyes was looking at him admiringly and with such a spontaneous intense wish that a ray of light was granted for him that day.
The haze was gone and it was poised to see what was there in the light.
Author: Chinmoy Dutta