Shree: Going on the road

 

Shree: Going on the road

On the road today, a bike ahead of me accidently went kaput when the signal turned “green”. Others behind the biker (including me) honked at him probably indicating that it was nonsense of him for the bike to go kaput at  that very instant! He started the bike and zoomed ahead, followed by us. After 4 seconds I wondered why is he “still zooming ahead” when the experience is over in the past tense?

Was he under the influence of the honking of the horns and wanted to drive as fast as possible to get away from that experience? Or was he guilty of his bike going kaput all of a sudden? Or did he want to reach some destination and felt that he had lost some precious moments of life? Or maybe more such influences?

The point is about ‘influences’ that we become and carry which cause momentum, action, perception, change and so on. All situations can be regarded as influences; all things happening as a phenomenon of space and time can be said as influences. The pull of action is so subtle and since it is subtle (origins beyond any physical form), the triggers run deep and seem extremely profound. Whoever says that space and time will not influence any of his action does not really know what he is saying.

This goes on to say that “space –time” mean change, relation, connection, remembrance/ retention/ memory, evolution and the promise of going beyond. This is the nature of manifestation or of the phenomenon itself. If there is “I”, then there has to be space-time construct or some meaning that gets expressed.

So the crux is to evolve “I” in a way that space-time is not required for I’s existence. In using the symbol of “Shree”, that is exactly what absolute existence means – going beyond space and time constructs or pulls or actions. Kant refers to it as noumenon (in The Critique of Reason) and several approaches in architecture are present to connect us to Beyond.

Hari Om.