Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A tribute to Albert Einstein



I have been blessed to experience the humility of many, and in that list, shines Albert Einstein, and evokes this tribute to him—the tribute in itself the Divine’s Grace, just as he has gifted humanity, and eternity, with the gift immeasurable, a derivative of his Special Theory of Relativity, inarguably the most  famed equation, E = mc2.

On this day, the soul-in-form, the energy-in-form, called Albert Einstein, came to form and on his way to self-realization, as he accomplished the immeasurable, he humbly took no credit for all that he accessed and attained, humbly hailing his curiosity and not his talent: “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Realizing the necessity of curiosity—essential for inventions, as Plato says, “Necessity is the mother of invention”—he also calls out: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Grounded firmly in and rooted to his Truth of being and buoyed thus by his humility, through his passionate curiosity he accessed the mechanism of manifestation (how all things come to form), and hence his equation, which, effectively says, “As you sow, so you reap.” He cracked the code, breaking the superficial barrier between energy and matter, and thus, that between science and spirituality too—both unique and thus relative approaches to understand the existential truths, and access the answer to why appears that which appears.

Impeccable, the Divine Order, perfect to the core, leading It is to the Perfect Core, Our Truth: call it God, Source, Vital Force, Creative Energy…whatever you will, all are synonyms. As we believe so it is, for us!

As is the energy, so is the materialization. As we think, so we become, and so we create…

Amazing is the natural law, that pervades and forms the order of life, and beholds the infinite promise of leading to the fulfillment of our potential, when it is fully utilized.

Awe inspired, realizing himself to be just tool, a relay, a conduit of the Source, in this Divine scheme of Life Eternal, Einstein acknowledges:

ü  “There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance”
ü  “Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”
ü  “The more I study metaphysics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”

And questioned many times, regarding what relativity it is, he answers with his child-like curiosity and simplicity, affirming that relativity is not something meant only for those delving into science and specifically physics, rather, it is all-pervasive in our life. We live relativity day in and day out, whether we know or not. “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity!” That’s how Albert Einstein, almost synonymous with relativity, defines relativity—enamoring, humbling and awe-inspiring his simplicity, curiosity, creativity, commitment and humility.

And having been led to this tribute to Einstein, I humbly acknowledge that it is actually a tribute to the Eternal, Inexhaustible Energy, Love & Light Eternal, the Divine, God, Whose humility, graciousness has been acknowledged by yet another realized soul, Rabindranath Tagore, through his innumerable writings, each a tribute to the Source, and still, out of that infinite ocean of his writings, the one that comes to the fore, having so surfaced many times before, is: “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.”

Indeed, endless is the pleasure of the Infinite, as infinite is Its humility…and so is Its pleasure presented through and acknowledged by Albert Einstein! Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein Sir!

Yes, “the name is Einstein, Albert Einstein!” He lives on, as the essence, as the endless energy unique…

Sushmita,
14 March 2018




Friday, March 2, 2018

An insect, in meditation



Life moves through the unprecedented as well as repetitive incidents, though intrinsically each is unique, ensuring that one is led to the contemplative essence of life. Such is the platter and palette of life, guiding us to taste and test basically our very own palate! The process of life is entirely cyclic, and thus, reflexive—keeps on pointing and leading to the Origin, One, of one and all. Reflections of the like are innumerable and constantly in flow and form, but sighted and envisaged when the mind is found to be reflective, contemplative.

Life so lures, as alluring is the call of life, beckoning to experience and embody the fact: Life is redemptive, in form to realize the formless essence of life in form that one is. Life, constantly, relentlessly, untiringly affirms that each one of us is a unique creation of the One Creator, Who is one with all Its created. None is superior or inferior—each, an art in form, a science in flow, a philosophy in the process of unfurling!

Such has been an experience that evokes and incites, and thus invokes, all that thus flow… Yesterday, in the afternoon, had the privilege of watching an insect, akin to a grasshopper, composed its pose, provoking and invoking a self-answering query!

For minutes, and then for hours together, found the insect maintaining its pose, position—and more importantly, its poise, as it sat on the window sill, absolutely still! “Meditative” is the word that sprung in and as the consciousness. I know not when the insect left its spot, and came out of its state of stillness. Didn’t disturb it, as felt an analogy with the external silence and calm too that one looks and longs for, when one is in meditation and is yet to access and attain and embody permanently the permanent peace, the state of bliss, one’s essence.

The query indentifies itself, first: “Is it in meditation?” And immediately is followed by its alter ego, the answer and the affirmation: “The same Infinite Intelligence runs and moves through all, and forms us all. Then how intelligent it is to claim and brag that, as humans, we are the most intelligent species—we are God’s, the Infinite Creative Intelligence’s, ‘the creation’?”

Indeed! God—the Creator, one with all Its created—Unconditional Love, Light Eternal doesn’t discriminate and so, even insects too meditate…and so, immediate is the realization! Thus, an insect serves as the tool of contemplation, bisecting and dissecting, intervening and dissolving, once again, the superficial notion of any one species’ superiority, with exquisite simplicity! The insect flies not, rather, through its very own meditation, guides to meditative moments, blessing with the affirmation of the Divine: It is one with Its created, and not even for a moment does it dissociate from the created. It is, so one is…It is, so are one and all. It is ever protecting, always guiding, myriad Its ways, each mirroring Its Reflections, even if engrossingly ever so subtly!

Yes, the process of life is entirely cyclic, and thus, reflexive, as the Origin keeps on pointing and leading to Itself—the Origin, One, of one and all!

Sushmita,
3 March 2018