- Scholars and sages have often highlighted the fact that nothing is permanent – infact it’s a common belief that we can somehow put off this Impermanence – as Yiddisher said in Mahabharata – we see it all around us – yet we do not accept it for ourself.
- While the three Mega forces of Creation, Preservation & Destruction are ever present, we are vigorously trying to create, preserve and destroy structures as per our likes & dislikes.
- Our effort to give structure, form & meaning to Life, with the best of intent, has a certain degree of finiteness & limitation, perhaps thankfully so.
- “Broken Life” – as it appears to be, has a certain beauty to it. To use Rajneesh Ji’s expression it’s perfectly imperfect!
- Poets & artists are probably well suited to synthesise these “broken pieces”. E.g.
- Tasali Dil Kee Hoo Jati – joo toraa sona detay [It will give me satisfaction, if You can sing part of this incomplete song!]
- Tum meree rakhoo laaj Hari [O Lord, please preserve my dignity!]
- Tagore : We are like a stray line of a poem, which ever feels that it rhythms with another line and must find it, or miss its own fulfilment. This quest of the unattained is the great impulse in man which brings forth all his best creations. Man seems deeply to be aware of a separation at the root of his being, he cries to be led across it to a union; and somehow he knows that it is love which can lead him to a love which is final.
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