Eman's enemy, the rational man screams: "Here is the superman! This man is driven by a constant affirmation of his vision of the limitless expanse of his own capacity, the intensity of his own anger, love and creative impulse."
Eman has performed as one possessed by the spirit and often endured far beyond his comprehension. He would recall crossing the swollen river in spate of downpour with a child in the grip of fear of certain death. He would wander in dense jungles for days together without food or shelter, killing the enemy lusting for his mother, daughter and his sister. He would recall drinking the poison with a smile; giving up his land, wife and children to keep his promise, would cut a pound of flesh from his thigh to do justice, jumping into the pyre of his dearest one, discovering a rule or law in a flash of forgetting himself. Yes, yes,...the list is endless. During the darkest night in the densest desert, Emen witnessed the birth of their child by praying to the wind, trees, earth, fire, rain and thunder. Eman shouts: ? Listen to him:
'Man' is inferior to the animals in their own qualities,
superior only in his mind, his thought ,
his power of reflection and creation.
But his thought does not make him,
stronger than the lion or the tiger,
nor swifter than the deer,
more spendid to sight than the bird of paradise.
Neither is the human beauty
of the most beautiful man and woman
superior to the beauty of the animals
in its own kind and perfect form.
He continues : Thus do I imagine myself to be the lion and defeats the stronger enemy, dreams of being a fish and survives the sea, and lets myself be a snake surviving without food in the jungle,...Oh, the list of my allies is truly endless.
'Tell me', he beckons,' Will the conquerors recognize men with the help of their machines now, when they could not do it with their eyes ? And I do not want for an answer an essay parading the creative ingenuity that is resident in each marvel of a machine he has fashioned. For, I know the forests are full of ingenious creations whose significance did not reach me through my use of them. And these conquistadors? They saw the significance of the trees by cutting them into logs! So, now, will the venerable one speak of the significance of the new creations apart from their use value? Or, have they added a line or two to this current rising up within me for eternity, rendered by my friend thus':
Acintyam_Avyaktam_ananta_roopam sivam
Prasantam_amrutam brahma_yonim |
tathadi_madhyanta_viheenam_ekam vibhum
cid-anandam_aroopam_adbhutam ||
Eman is in search of the higher law which will take under its wings all the dominant laws that he finds himself listening to. He knows that the dominant laws are those of the market place as always; about food, money, wine, men and women and mortality. He cries out : Give me the law, that will eclipse the laws of this market place!
He explains: Only the fools seek for the truth of existence of god outside of the self. His existence is simply proven by the desire of the self to seek him, not by the theory of causations. I search for the simple law which would render this simple truth accessible to one and all, and free them from the dualities of one and the other, the inner and the outer, ideas and objects, ...and ...hmm .... I leave the pundits to their deliberations on the verities of the words and speak to you at once. He picks up the drum:
Know that the gods are used to baths before dawn
ever since the first being strenuously sought them,
and will take a holy dip in the ocean,
with the last being striving to find them.
Prostrate before the one who strives with unceasing energy,
hear not the words forbidding him.
When a brave knight takes the field
all the cowards take to their heels.
The law of existence is the same
for the panchabhutas and one hundred atoms
for the navarasas, and charms and flavors
for the living and non-living, for woman and man
Kneel before no words, high or low!
Know thus the true meaning of the scriptures.
Eman has performed as one possessed by the spirit and often endured far beyond his comprehension. He would recall crossing the swollen river in spate of downpour with a child in the grip of fear of certain death. He would wander in dense jungles for days together without food or shelter, killing the enemy lusting for his mother, daughter and his sister. He would recall drinking the poison with a smile; giving up his land, wife and children to keep his promise, would cut a pound of flesh from his thigh to do justice, jumping into the pyre of his dearest one, discovering a rule or law in a flash of forgetting himself. Yes, yes,...the list is endless. During the darkest night in the densest desert, Emen witnessed the birth of their child by praying to the wind, trees, earth, fire, rain and thunder. Eman shouts: ? Listen to him:
'Man' is inferior to the animals in their own qualities,
superior only in his mind, his thought ,
his power of reflection and creation.
But his thought does not make him,
stronger than the lion or the tiger,
nor swifter than the deer,
more spendid to sight than the bird of paradise.
Neither is the human beauty
of the most beautiful man and woman
superior to the beauty of the animals
in its own kind and perfect form.
He continues : Thus do I imagine myself to be the lion and defeats the stronger enemy, dreams of being a fish and survives the sea, and lets myself be a snake surviving without food in the jungle,...Oh, the list of my allies is truly endless.
'Tell me', he beckons,' Will the conquerors recognize men with the help of their machines now, when they could not do it with their eyes ? And I do not want for an answer an essay parading the creative ingenuity that is resident in each marvel of a machine he has fashioned. For, I know the forests are full of ingenious creations whose significance did not reach me through my use of them. And these conquistadors? They saw the significance of the trees by cutting them into logs! So, now, will the venerable one speak of the significance of the new creations apart from their use value? Or, have they added a line or two to this current rising up within me for eternity, rendered by my friend thus':
Acintyam_Avyaktam_ananta_roopam sivam
Prasantam_amrutam brahma_yonim |
tathadi_madhyanta_viheenam_ekam vibhum
cid-anandam_aroopam_adbhutam ||
Eman is in search of the higher law which will take under its wings all the dominant laws that he finds himself listening to. He knows that the dominant laws are those of the market place as always; about food, money, wine, men and women and mortality. He cries out : Give me the law, that will eclipse the laws of this market place!
He explains: Only the fools seek for the truth of existence of god outside of the self. His existence is simply proven by the desire of the self to seek him, not by the theory of causations. I search for the simple law which would render this simple truth accessible to one and all, and free them from the dualities of one and the other, the inner and the outer, ideas and objects, ...and ...hmm .... I leave the pundits to their deliberations on the verities of the words and speak to you at once. He picks up the drum:
Know that the gods are used to baths before dawn
ever since the first being strenuously sought them,
and will take a holy dip in the ocean,
with the last being striving to find them.
Prostrate before the one who strives with unceasing energy,
hear not the words forbidding him.
When a brave knight takes the field
all the cowards take to their heels.
The law of existence is the same
for the panchabhutas and one hundred atoms
for the navarasas, and charms and flavors
for the living and non-living, for woman and man
Kneel before no words, high or low!
Know thus the true meaning of the scriptures.
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