Truly Nothing into Nothing (Part 2.)
“You were
talking about the Nothing and the Everything?”
“Yes
Grandfather, we were considering Meher Baba’s words in the book Infinite
Intelligence—in this context, that the Nothing resides in the Everything.”
“The Nothing
resides in the Everything—that is
very interesting.”
“Exactly,
that is exactly what we were talking about. Ayushya was saying that the way in
which Baba put it, it suggests the impermanence of illusion with regard to
Reality.”
“Will you be
so kind as to re-read Baba’s words?”
“Of course:
“‘The
universe is nothing but darkness residing in Light; nothing but imagination
residing in Intelligence; nothing but ignorance residing in knowledge; nothing
but the Nothing residing in the Everything; nothing but the utmost finitude
residing in the Infinite; nothing but the shadow residing in the Paramatma.
Itself most finite, the universe resides as a drop in the infinite Ocean of
Paramatma.’”
“Grandfather,
what were you thinking when you had your eyes closed just now?”
“I was
remembering that in the ghazal I was
reading the deer first approached the hiding place of the hunter and called
out; ‘Why are shooting at me? I am your
friend.’ But as time went on and the hunter, still hidden, continued to
shoot arrow into the deer, the deer called out again; “You continue to shoot your arrows at me, yet refuse to show yourself to
me. Over time, you and your arrows have taken everything from me. I have no
life anymore; I have no desire for anything of this world or the next; all I
have are these wounds. So, I implore you, either show yourself to me, or
continue to shoot your arrows, because it has come to pass that in each wound I
see the image of your face and long for you more and more and still yet more!’
That is was I was thinking Mera.”
“The beauty
of that ghazal is beyond all words, but why Grandfather, did Baba’s words
inspire that ghazal in you just then?”
“Because, my
dear, Baba’s words are those arrows he sends to us to remind us to remember him
until the time determined by him to reveal himself to us as our own
most-beloved Self.”
(To be
continued.)
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