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Explaining the Absolute to the Relative | Saturday, May 09, 2015 |
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In a
mother’s womb were two babies.
One asked
the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other
replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we
are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense”
said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that
be?”
The second
said, “I don’t know, but there will be lighter than here. Maybe we will walk
with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we
can’t understand now.”
The first
replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths?
Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But
the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically
excluded.”
The second
insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is
here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first
replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one ever
come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery
there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I
don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and She will
take care of us.”
The first
replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother
exists then where is She now?”
The second
said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by Her. We are of Her. It is in
Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the
first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the
second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really
listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice,
calling down from above.”
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