Yes, actually, ''that there is'', is a mystery.
This jackfruit plant is in front of my house. It is a small-sized one and has not grown any larger in all these years. Before, the growing season it will just be a stem, branches, and leaves. When the season first begins, first comes the buddings, then the flowers, and then gradually the fruit. To me, it is always a great magic show. All wonderful things out of a magic box.
In nature, to me at least, everything is magic, perfect, and complete, like a jackfruit.
Then, why are we, who are also elements in the domain of nature, always suffering from the feelings that we are imperfect, incomplete, and missing something from our life?
Observing from nature, from a jackfruit coming into being, to get to the boundary of completeness, it will grow up to a certain size and when it reached to that, it won't grow anymore. There can be varitions among the average size of jackfruits from tree to tree, depending on the area in which they grow.
The question that arises to my mind is, “When will we reach our complete form, and then, no more”? Is death a complete state for each person? Obviously, not everyone believes that way. Then, what are we growing up to? When we will be completely ‘complete’, like the jackfruit?
What is different is that a jackfruit has no mind, as far as we know what mind really is. We do know that we have a mind, then what is that for in the journey to the completion state, if there is one?
All the religions and philosophies have explanations for that, but personally, to an atheist engineer like me, jackfruits are wonderful preachers. No engineer who ever lived on earth can 'make' something like a natural jackfruit.
Nicolas Tesla's statement that “there is a source”, a source of intelligence somewhere in the universe, rings in my head. Maybe, that is 'The Creator' or 'Sunyatra' or 'Tao' or any of a whole number of deities. If we do come from that (source) then we must be returning to it. There will be our completion.
And if so, along the way, and along with what we experience are our journeys, not our ends. And we will end up 'there'. And our completion. That is my personal thinking, and if that is true, then the total magic will also be 'there' at the end. And for understanding more on that, I would again refer to Tesla's words:
'Energy, Frequency, and Vibration.'
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