EVERYWHERE, EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE

I wrote it after a sweet experience of is-ness after a Bhajan. Life, as it is, seems quite incomprehensible to us. Too much of everything. Too much of things, too much of people, too much of emotions and too much of reason. The best description of life, as it is, should be Everywhere, everything, all at once. Things exist, and from those things arise man which can comprehend itself and its is-ness. 

Is-ness is a quality of the man. The capability to be able to acknowledge how existing feels like, it is a unique feature of the man. Stones cannot describe is-ness. From is-ness, a need for meaning arises. A dire need to formulate why we are able to comprehend so much. 

From meanings, arise a need of articulation and from that arises language. Language worships meanings through words. Words create, in turn, their own symbolic or otherwise meanings. These meanings have a world of their own. One meaning that arose due to is-ness, another meaning which was the cause of language and the third kind of meaning, which is the effect of language itself. 

How does meanings arise from language? I claim each word travels through history through a trajectory which ascribes on it a meaning. So, there develops a sea of meanings of which man finds himself confused whether anything among them has any significance or not. Other men do not even feel the need to meaning. Life, as it is, is hard enough for them not to be able to think about meanings and stuff. 

Meaning in its core, only means a need of explanation. Why me? Why all this? Why everything, everywhere all at once? To which, the existence has no answers. But I claim man is the answer that man is searching. 

When we pray to God, in Hinduism, it is popularly called Bhajan. What Bhajan precisely is? "Bhaja" is the root word of Sanskrit means "To experience". To experience the is-ness. But whose is-ness? Yours? nope. But the ones whose Bhajan is being done. The naive questions whether there is God, cannot be a yes-no answer. The reality lies in the intricacy of is-ness. When to say something exists? A thought, can we say, does not exist? How does a rock existing and a thought existing different? The truth being, Man cannot think something without something being a thought. In order for the rock to exist for the man, it has to go through a journey of being a thought from a rock. We do not understand rock. We cannot understand a rock as it is. We can only understand the mere thought. When we Bhaja any God, it becomes a thought. The material origin becomes immaterial. When the is-ness is established within thought, then the thinker is not concerned with the real-life existence. It is like a character establishment of a plot. And it is very easy for the Bhakt to forget his own thought in order to establish the Bhagwan. 

So, Bhajan exploits the is-ness of the other. The God. It lets you forget your own is-ness. It is effective to be in a flow of is-ness of thought.  Unlike meditation, where is-ness of the self is experienced, Bhajan is experiencing the is-ness of the god. Many people, in the enlightenment symptom, would agree to the is-ness of the self but not to the is-ness of the other. But the truth it their agreement and disagreement, both are shallow. 

Is-ness of anything is actually projection of anything external onto our minds. When we project our whole being in the vast universe onto ourselves, from outside, in meditation, we feel how the ability to feel feels like. Meditation, in itself, is gratitude to existence, Thank you for existing through me. Bhajan, on the other hand, is gratitude to the other. Thank you for existing. Meaning, in a nutshell, is celebrated through these two means, Dhyana and Bhajan. Existence, the is-ness, the projection of a thing into thought and also not-a-thing into thought makes them at par with each other. Rock as a thought and God as a thought becomes equal. You, on the other hand, when you become your own thought, also become the same. 

I conclude, with this. I wrote it after a sweet experience of is-ness after a Bhajan.