Bounded-Yet Beyond We Are
By
JIRARA
© JIRARA, June 2020
Published by JIRARA
On matrubharti.com
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Bounded-Yet Beyond We Are
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My childhood room
That yester years’ room now looked very small,
I wonder how in that room I with all my books,
bed, rest room got fitted,
that room then looking quite big,
we used to play some indoor games, sleep.
Now that we are grown up are,
and some larger sizes have become,
that the same room very small looks now,
not able to imagine, in that smaller room,
we grew, expanded.
Then the life was not fully understood,
yet, our thoughts got expanded,
the minds larger in volume grew,
our knowledge in dimensions by leaps and bounds grew,
by reading text books, teachers’ notes,
newspapers, magazines,
the cupboard-library of my father came very handy.
Wherever we then went my rooms of the same size were,
even smaller sizes, now being reminiscent of my past,
that was full of constraints due to our economic conditions,
yet the affection, care, love of my parents in great abundance were,
even though at times the food, monies in some shortages were,
bringing occasional sadness in the family.
The health care received was tremendously fulfilling,
always timely, never had to suffer more than just decided,
by the kind of the problem, the disease.
There the freedom of thought was,
time to study more, to read more,
though the discussions being limited,
- that caused curiosity to grow,
to be answered much later in the years,
as we in age and years of formal education grew.
The rooms might have been smaller,
not the brain’s capacity,
the mind has infinite dimensions,
its ‘volume’ as big as cosmos,
the thoughts to galaxies and beyond ran,
the learning could be boundless,
as the vistas of the Universe,
the knowledge could be infinite in quantity and quality,
perhaps one life-time would not suffice.
All that infinite experience cannot,
even be gathered in many life-times,
(perhaps there is one and only one life-time!),
only an essence of our existence can be realized if at all,
only a miniscule from the infinite whole can be experienced.
Those infinite possibilities lived just in a tiny brain,
that tiny brain with billions of neurons living/residing in a small man,
that small man lived in a small room,
that small space for the existence was yet beaconing,
expansion of the life beyond that small room.
Alas! how so ignorant of this at that time we were!
in those childhood rooms and plays.
**
I sank (?) in a tank
The school days, and small trip to outskirt,
the leaders had warned us,
– no deviation from the assigned path,
no mischief of any kind, no adventures at all.
And that was enough indication itself for me,
to get into one of it, may be subconsciously.
And I jumped into a large tank with cemented bricked walls,
and I did not know swimming, being too young, had never learnt.
I felt I was sinking, shouted out to close friends,
and was then in a moment rescued,
we escaped the punishment by hiding the facts.
After 40 years, I supervised my tiny granddaughter,
playing in a similar tank in the backyard of my house,
though it was very safe that she had a floating tube,
we all supervised her playing and swimming,
in the waters of this cemented bricked tank.
Me and my granddaughter both are caught in the whirlpool,
of waters in the tanks that have no walls,
- open to infinite directions,
we are flung open in this galaxy, in this universe,
only tied to the centre of this planet by gravity
- only by action at a distance, invisible force,
- you can feel, but cannot see.
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We are like the ‘Digambers’, ‘Dishambers’,
who live naked on this Earth (mostly in India),
they do not wear any clothes,
their clothes are the ‘Digas’, ‘Dishas’, the directions – 4 or many,
they are covered by these directions – which stretch to infinity,
they are cloth-less but not direction less,
they are naked but their minds are covered,
and protected with wisdom,
they do not need and do not use artificial covers,
this requires tremendous courage,
control of mind over body,
what a profound philosophy!
We too are also ‘Digambers’, ‘Dishambers’,
although, we cover our bodies with clothes,
our outer selves are covered with,
the same 4 or more and yet far reaching directions.
These eternities and their infinite directions are around us,
- and ‘watching’ - all the time, for all the lifetime:
our deeds, our follies, our outward nakedness, our naked acts,
our naked cruelty, naked desires, our naked plots to kill others,
our madness - whether we are wearing the clothes now,
or were not wearing then (thousands years ago)!
Hope someday, somebody or we will (learn to) rescue us,
from sinking deep into the darkness of these irrational acts.
***An end…***with a new beginning…***
