I am in search of words to state the higher law subjecting the fate of men, women and their communities, the law that conquers the lower law, the principle of growth, decay and long life, which has assumed the status of the law of rational scientific enterprise of the modern age.
Why? Because, a time comes in the life of a every Eman, when either he rediscovers this higher law or succumbs to the lower law. The lower law focuses on the means to stay alive as long as possible, we as individuals, we as communities and as one of the large part of humanity on this earth. Even that may not be possible in the present circumstances when the lower law has assumed such awesome vitality in the hands of the captains, the pirates and the mercenaries, the masters of colonialism and industrial revolution and their new sworn followers.
Once the law is accepted as fate there is no escape; one can only strive to lengthen the suffering. Those who do not accept this as the highest law find darkness spreading every corner of the mind, be it the mind reflecting the meaning of life, be it the mind living in comfort after conveniently rationalizing the bits and pieces of meanings drawn from here and there, often giving it the sanction of tradition or that of modernity, but mainly decided by the source and extent of their successes; or, the mind engaged in the day to day struggle to stay alive, the struggle in which all meanings have got mixed up with hunger of one type or another.
Eman calls on the Chief, who spoke with a calmness : "I have to meet the doctor, I have to stay alive long. Who will do these after I am gone? This forest will disappear. The spirits will take flight and so also the songs of my folk. He took a handful of mud in hand and shouted: This earth would disappear along with me!"
When a man, tribe or community is reduced to process day and night the methods of staying alive, searching for food, cloth and shelter of the lower variety or the higher variety, it gets trapped and its own intuition of the world appears meaningless and unreal. If the individual soul is sensitive enough either he will commit suicide unmindful of the public law or turn neurotic. Even a tribe may turn neurotic gripped by the fear of impending extinction or yield by
becoming slaves!
A country may yield and say alive under some form of oppression or slavery. Or, it will regenerate some active principle within its psyche, by comprehending its potentialities and seek and realize some expression of it in order to gain some space to answer the problem of staying, and in the process achieve something more significant - find the means of subjecting the law of growth and decay to a higher law.
Is it inevitable that this active principle must result in a new synthesis characteristic of the age and the people who express it ? Is it inevitable that it is in continuity with the syntheses attempted by his forefathers, marked by a comprehension of the meaning of immortality ?
In the following pages Eman expresses this possibility of the rediscovery of the higher law, for members of his tribe express their desire to do so. He is determined to meet one and all, and alas, each one rekindles the same desire! For, he is waking up the friend of every one in his own self, the emotional man, the dual of the rational scientific man who is his sworn enemy.
The Eman finds his words always failing him in expressing the fire burning in the hearts of his friends, and is frustrated to find that he is often repeating revelations known to his enemy as facts, ideas and theories. But he is not worried; for, he is hopeful that there is somewhere in it a lucid note which will play on all the lips of his kind to become part of the great melodious song.
So, he is used to make the mistake of mixing up time and space and mixing up all names. He knows only too well that it is unlikely that any soul, whose name he finds written, found the meaning of those words first!
Why? Because, a time comes in the life of a every Eman, when either he rediscovers this higher law or succumbs to the lower law. The lower law focuses on the means to stay alive as long as possible, we as individuals, we as communities and as one of the large part of humanity on this earth. Even that may not be possible in the present circumstances when the lower law has assumed such awesome vitality in the hands of the captains, the pirates and the mercenaries, the masters of colonialism and industrial revolution and their new sworn followers.
Once the law is accepted as fate there is no escape; one can only strive to lengthen the suffering. Those who do not accept this as the highest law find darkness spreading every corner of the mind, be it the mind reflecting the meaning of life, be it the mind living in comfort after conveniently rationalizing the bits and pieces of meanings drawn from here and there, often giving it the sanction of tradition or that of modernity, but mainly decided by the source and extent of their successes; or, the mind engaged in the day to day struggle to stay alive, the struggle in which all meanings have got mixed up with hunger of one type or another.
Eman calls on the Chief, who spoke with a calmness : "I have to meet the doctor, I have to stay alive long. Who will do these after I am gone? This forest will disappear. The spirits will take flight and so also the songs of my folk. He took a handful of mud in hand and shouted: This earth would disappear along with me!"
When a man, tribe or community is reduced to process day and night the methods of staying alive, searching for food, cloth and shelter of the lower variety or the higher variety, it gets trapped and its own intuition of the world appears meaningless and unreal. If the individual soul is sensitive enough either he will commit suicide unmindful of the public law or turn neurotic. Even a tribe may turn neurotic gripped by the fear of impending extinction or yield by
becoming slaves!
A country may yield and say alive under some form of oppression or slavery. Or, it will regenerate some active principle within its psyche, by comprehending its potentialities and seek and realize some expression of it in order to gain some space to answer the problem of staying, and in the process achieve something more significant - find the means of subjecting the law of growth and decay to a higher law.
Is it inevitable that this active principle must result in a new synthesis characteristic of the age and the people who express it ? Is it inevitable that it is in continuity with the syntheses attempted by his forefathers, marked by a comprehension of the meaning of immortality ?
In the following pages Eman expresses this possibility of the rediscovery of the higher law, for members of his tribe express their desire to do so. He is determined to meet one and all, and alas, each one rekindles the same desire! For, he is waking up the friend of every one in his own self, the emotional man, the dual of the rational scientific man who is his sworn enemy.
The Eman finds his words always failing him in expressing the fire burning in the hearts of his friends, and is frustrated to find that he is often repeating revelations known to his enemy as facts, ideas and theories. But he is not worried; for, he is hopeful that there is somewhere in it a lucid note which will play on all the lips of his kind to become part of the great melodious song.
So, he is used to make the mistake of mixing up time and space and mixing up all names. He knows only too well that it is unlikely that any soul, whose name he finds written, found the meaning of those words first!
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