Manifest vs. Unmanifest

I don’t know why always Eternal Father reminded me of the Uncertainty of Life.  I was often reminded with the Law of Impermanence in my journey of Life until now. Is it the question of stability or instability or else the supreme consciousness wanted to say something about this through me? I was in a deep inquiry. It was when the young man who used to ask lot of questions to acquire something from my knowledge, left me stranded as everyone did, I was deeply inquiring myself on what forced us from this separation. What is with this Law of Detachment? What does it denotes? What people do have to learn from this Law which the Eternal Father, the supreme Consciousness framed out. My inquiries were stronger and stronger as time passed. 

Before I get into my mind’s conversation, a small recap: The man who questions me always was deeply discontent with the Life he lives in. With lot of knowledge acquired through books, religious texts and his own bitter experiences in life, he already swapped happiness in his life with emptiness. But I can feel that is not the real emptiness. It is not actually nullified. The actual nullification in life requires greater deal of consciousness. I know he is a struggling piece of wood, in a heavy stream of water. He is conscious that he is flowing with the stream, but I can sense that unconsciously he is trying to get into any one shore but is confused which shore. He felt that “Nothing” is there in life and everything is “Vanity”. But he was not able to understand when I said “Life is nothing I agree, It will fulfill only when you understand that “Everything” lies in that “Nothing”.  According to me What we see, What we conceive, What we perceive is “Vanity”. But what would we call the sense of perception, touch and feel. What causes it? Though everything is Vanity, all living beings, everything lives in it right. Knowing Life is Nothing, is that good neglecting life completely? It would be a mere pretension. I sensed it from the Young Man. 

Most of the times I was reminded of this “Nothingness”, especially through this youngster, but I had to put forth a series of questions to get the answer and still seeking...

Conscious: What is it? Don’t I remember that this world is “Nothing” and all is “Vanity”. Had I not incurred losses in my whole life? Didn’t I lost my Friends, My lovable ones, My hard earned money, etc., 

Subconscious : Yes. The life itself is impermanent. Nothing will stay here, physically. Don’t you know anything too emotionally attached will create a state of unhappiness. What happened in your life is also the same thing only. It is only to make you understand the Law of impermanence.

Conscious: Aren’t people living in the same way?

Subconscious: Maybe. But do you really know that they don’t incur such kind of losses. The form of losses may be different. Should it not be the same level of pain?

Conscious: Same level of Pain? How could that be?

Subconscious: The term pain is constant in mind. A seduction (psychological) injection causes a person with heavy paining wound to forget the pain immediately or gradually. We feel more pain with the prick of a pin, than that what was caused by a sword. Pain is not real. Where does the pain go when you sleep or have seduction. Your mind is just abominating it. Isn’t it?

Conscious: Yes, I agree, but what I suffered those days, the days I lost is lost forever isn’t it?

Subconscious: Don’t you remember the supreme words “What is yours in this world to be lost?” When you identify you with this body or with your name and when you die, is it the body which dies or name or something else which is called you now? Many don’t understand this eternal truth.

Conscious: Is that not “Me” who lost everything and it happened for what reason?

Subconscious: You are flowing with the stream of life. Life is that. It can’t be still. If it is still, then there is no beauty in that. A stillness of no flow could be contaminated easily. Life flows and you flow with that stream. There is lot you face on the flow – leaves and thugs etc., What good could you achieve by opposing the flow. Slender leaves and heavy thugs are facts which you have to face on the flow and the stream will take you to the final destination, but there is one thing you have to know – the purpose of you are in the flow.

Conscious: How will I know that and what good it will do for me?

Subconscious: If you want it to do good for you then you are selfish. Expectations always hurts. Rather think like this, being pliable to flow with the stream of life, by knowing the purpose and doing the duties without expecting any benefit out of it is an appreciated actuality.

Conscious: Does everyone have this awareness? You say the flow is taking me to an unknown destination, then is that not like what I see, hear or feel is out of reality and a sense of vanity?

Subconscious: What do you call as vanity? The illusionary colors, which you feel marvelous, the illusionary fragrances of flowers which you feel exotic, exhilarating etc., don’t you  see a truth there. What you think as marvelous is nothing, what you feel as a scintillating smell is nothing. But still something in you makes you to feel the fragrance, see the myriad colors and more. You still believe that something which you call as vanity, somebody whom you call as a part of vanity – as yours, your dear ones, your money, your belonging etc.,

Can you really say, which is actually making you to think the either way? Don’t you feel this. What you call as yours according to you is vanity but still your mind conceives, cries and is emotional because you feel for that “One” what you call as vanity.

Conscious: I’m little bit confused. So is that not I am hurt with my losses.

Subconscious: Think about this. According to you in this world you call something as your belonging. But the pain of losses of the same is causing you to think they are vanity. From where this thought of belonging came. Which does belong to you? From where it came? Which causes this universe to act upon? If it is nothing then doesn’t it mean, that it has to be still? But aren’t you seeing that something is moving, acting, spinning, rotating, revolving etc., But again what is holding these actions, the origin of these things what you call as your belongings. From where do you come from? All the living beings. 

If you call all these living and non living beings are part of vanity – then doesn’t that mean your origin is that nothingness – the Unmanifest. Again now at the current moment you feel the presence of something through colors, fragrance, taste buds, heat or cold, of course through all senses. How could that ever happen. Doesn’t it mean that only the Unmanifest is the reason for all these activities or actions?

So now here the Unmanifest, manifests itself into an active area, where living beings like you could have a feel of all sensory perceptions. Thus the Unmanifest becomes Manifest.

Conscious: Yes you are right. Everything what I see becomes part of what I call as nothing.

Subconscious: Absolutely. If everything what you call as nothing, is a part of that everything. Then doesn’t that mean you are also a part of that Nothing. Then if you are a part, then you yourself becomes a belonging of that Unmanifest. Then how could something else would be your belonging.

Conscious: No, if it is like that, then that belonging is also a part of that Unmanifest like me myself.

Subconscious: Then doesn’t it mean that you are also that Unmanifest and what you called or whom you called is also that Unmanifest.

Conscious: Yes.

Subconscious: Then does it mean you have lost yourself.

Conscious: No. Not really.

Subconscious: Then why do you worry this much. When you feel that “Nothingness is Everything and Everything is there in that Nothing” or “Unmanifest becomes Manifested in itself” then that becomes a reality, you will love others like yourself, you will be aware that at anytime what we feel as everything will become nothing and again you become a part of that everything. A Cycle.

It is the law of impermanence. The eternal law. When you realize this in its truest self, then you will not try to abscond from the reality. Instead you will have a feeling that “Nothingness is everything, but everything is acting in that Nothing and my duty is to act myself pliable to flow with this manifestation of this stream of the Great Nothingness which is otherwise Eternal”

Try to put this thing deeply and feel the reality, else there will be a feeling of emptiness without the realization of the Fulfilling Unmanifest.