Saturday, January 15, 2005

Relationships

Relationship is all that is there in creation.
Physics says there are only electrons, protons and neutrons and the entire set of chemical elements are nothing but unique relationships between these three basic units. When a neutron establishes bonding with a proton and an electron we get the first and the most simple form of matter, the hydrogen atom. There is nothing called hydrogen without this relationship. Change the relation by adding few more basic units we get some other chemical elements. Atoms are special relationships betweens subatomic particles. There are only very few subatomic particles but they can give birth to a large number of unique atoms based on certain laws of bonding. In the next level atoms can form bonds between them to give birth to infinite number of molecules. Charcoal is one type of relationship between carbon atoms but when the same carbon atoms relate in a different way we get diamond. The only difference between charcoal and diamond is the way carbon atoms are forming bonds between them.

A living cell is a set of relationships between various molecules; the property called life emerges in that special type of bonding. These living cells bond together in various ways to express innumerable life forms. The human form is a result of a very complex set of relationships. A human being may appear to be an independent entity but it is in fact a complex society in itself. What we know as ourselves is a set of experiences and their memories appearing to be confined in a human body. The idea of me or I constantly evolves as we constantly add new experiences to our collection or as we establish new relationships or even by reorganizing existing relationships. Our sense of I is identified with a set of memories, we cannot erase these memories but we can modify how we relate to these memories.

The Nature evolves through relationships, through union, through yoga. But the yoga of Nature is unconscious and extremely slow. In the human vessel the Nature wakes up and ask questions.
What am I? Where am I? Who am I? Why am I? How am I?
This is a threshold.
After this stage evolution is a conscious process and the first task is look at oneself as an object and understand what is the relationship between I and this body, these emotions, these memories, these knowledge, these people, these environments etc.

You have arrived.