STORY OF THE UNREAL ENTITY (MITHYAA PURUSHA)
Emptiness!
Conscious blissful all-knowing emptiness!
In that emptiness appeared a
shape made of emptiness, like a wave from the ocean!
He, the ‘Empty-man’ had great
powers!
He saw shapes in the
emptiness and sought them!
He heard sounds in the
emptiness and jumped in glee!
He touched solids in that
emptiness and avoided dashing into them!
He tasted the emptiness and
felt satisfied!
He smelt the emptiness and
chose the shapes!
He walked and moved!
Instantly ‘Space and Time’ rose around him caging him all around!
But that caged empty man was
happy in that prison made of emptiness!
Moreover, he wanted to
possess the emptiness around him!
He drew lines in the
emptiness around the emptiness and constructed a house and protected it as
‘his’!
He was very fond of his
possession! He took care of the emptiness day and night like his own life!
But alas! In the time-cage
created by him, the house which contained his treasure of emptiness, gradually
got worn out and perished in course of time!
The poor empty man! He cried,
wept, rolled on the floor made of emptiness and lamented long for the loss of
his house which protected his only treasure namely ‘Emptiness’!
He would not give up!
He dug a well in the
emptiness.
He and protected his treasure
named ‘Emptiness’ in that well!
But alas! In the time-cage
created by him, the well which contained his treasure of emptiness, gradually
got worn out and perished in course of time!
The poor empty man! He cried,
wept, rolled on the floor made of emptiness and lamented long for the loss of
his well which protected his only treasure namely ‘Emptiness’!
He would not give up!
He made a pot in the
emptiness and protected his treasure named ‘Emptiness’ inside that pot!
But alas! In the time-cage
created by him, the pot which contained his treasure of emptiness, gradually
got worn out and perished in course of time!
The poor empty man! He cried,
wept, rolled on the floor made of emptiness and lamented long for the loss of
his pot which protected his only treasure namely ‘Emptiness’!
He would not give up!
He dug a huge pit in the
emptiness and protected his treasure named ‘Emptiness’ inside that pit! But
alas! In the time-cage created by him, the pit which contained his treasure of
emptiness, gradually got worn out and perished in course of time!
The poor empty man! He cried,
wept, rolled on the floor made of emptiness and lamented long for the loss of
his pit which protected his only treasure namely ‘Emptiness’!
He would not give up!
He constructed a huge hall in
the emptiness and protected his treasure named ‘Emptiness’ inside that hall! To
offer more protection, he built four huge halls all around the inside hall in
all the four directions, to safeguard the hall which contained his treasure
namely ‘Emptiness’!
But alas! In the time-cage
created by him, the hall with four halls around it, which contained his
treasure of emptiness, gradually got worn out and perished in course of time!
The poor empty man! He cried,
wept, rolled on the floor made of emptiness and lamented long for the loss of
his hall-structure of four halls surrounding a huge hall which protected his
only treasure namely ‘Emptiness’!
He would not give up!
He constructed a granary in
the emptiness and protected his treasure named ‘Emptiness’ inside that
granary!
But alas! In the time-cage
created by him, the granary, which contained his treasure of emptiness,
gradually got worn out and perished in course of time!
The poor empty man! He cried,
wept, rolled on the floor made of emptiness and lamented long for the loss of
his granary, which protected his only treasure namely ‘Emptiness’!
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(If these repeated words bore
you, pray tell me what else is your life, but repetitions? Aren’t you bored of
it still?)
(All the objects he built
collectively refer to the body, which is a house the ego lives in. The well
refers to the pathway from the mouth to the inside; the pot refers to the chest
region; the pit refers to the abdomen; hall with four halls refer to the body
with hands and feet; granary refers to the belly.)
And the story of this empty
man is never-ending!
He keeps on protecting his
treasure of emptiness drawing various structures again and again!
He loses them and cries!
He again draws lines around
the emptiness and tries to protect it! He laughs and jumps with joy seeing
them!
He loses them in course of
time and cries!
Who is that idiot who holds
on to the emptiness?
‘I’! The ‘Ahamkaara’! The
ego!
The imagined self-image which
arises by the interaction with the objects of the world!
What is the world?
Shapes drawn on the
ever-moving empty atoms by the brain, and sounds attached to those shapes to
identify them!
The imagined man-structure
holds on to an imagined shape-structure; cries when the lines get erased off;
draws more lines; cries when the lines get erased off; draws more lines; cries
……….!
This is the never ending
story of the idiot called the ‘ego-man’, who is not at all real!!!
NO END
