Started reading The book that I always wanted to. Always intrigued by the fact when people used to say that this (as the other two major works of other religions) were the means with which He is trying to talk to lesser mortals. But, when I started to read it, now I know why people say that. Now I know why people regard this sort of book as the epitome of everything that one needs to know. Yes, the things are told in a totally simplistic way, but, life is not as simple as it looks. Rather what things look like need not necessarily be what they actually are. That is what makes us what we are... creatures who complicate life when He gave everything simple. We choose not to look at things as He gave, but, we try to look at things through our own prism, the prism called our 'perspective'. How stupid of us!
The book itself says:
na tu mam sakyase drastum
anenaiva sva-caksusa
divyam dadami te caksuh
pasya me yogam aishvaram
Though this is purport to have been told by one person to another one as a one-to-one, I, however, feel (so do many people) that this is a way of He talking to each one of us. He says, that with these 'human vision' of yours, you cannot see Me, with all my splendor and opulence. You need 'miraculous vision' in order to be able to see Me, as I am all encompassed.
Look at it in a simple way, as a simple verse, it might mean something. But, I look at it like this...
We are so blinded by our own prisms of perspectives, of thoughts, of limited knowledge that we fail to see the obvious. We need to look 'beyond the obvious' to know what things are, as they exist in reality. That will give us a totally different and unique way of looking at things and progressing and at the same time, regressing. What might have seemed to be a simple pebble or a stone rolling would have been that had the human of that day not looked at it beyond what his predecessors have always seen it. But, he looked at it in a totally different way and we got something called as a 'wheel'. A wheel that drove us to where we are right now. No one can deny the importance of this invention. At the same time, till that fateful day, no one, not even its inventor might have thought that a filled in plane, if hits a skyscraper at the right position will have the fuel to be combusted, melt the iron skeleton that beholds the structure and bring down not just the structure, but also a symbol, a symbol of a thought process that we know as a free world, a capitalist world in what we know as the land of opportunities come crumbling down.
Look... look beyond the human vision, and you can look everything in Him, as He has created, both living and the non-living, past, present and future, and in the truest sense. At that point, everything will be peaceful, no attachment... only serene.
Well, why am I talking about this verse and this interpretation one may ask. I just opened The book, took a random page and read it and I think that this one coming up is not a coincidence. Or is it? May be I need some divine vision to make it out!
