Part 1: Recap
Before we begin, a summary of Chapter One.
We started with problems
That are dear to humanity,
Those of happiness, purpose,
And the mysteries of reality.
We explored the significance,
Of personal purpose,
And how it is connected,
With the purpose of the Universe.
And furthermore,
To understand the Universal purpose,
We asked why,
The Universe would come into existence,
And by extension,
Why something should come from nothing.
The most foundational question.
But then we found, in part one,
That Nothing is a puzzle,
A simple solution seems impossible.
.
We thought about making,
Nothing in a box.
By removing from the box,
Everything we could think of.
In the end, for a moment,
We thought the box had Nothing.
But then we realized…
If Nothing existed in that box,
It had to be something!
We were back at the beginning.
Part 2: A simpler paradox as an example
For more insight into this puzzle,
Consider the Liar’s Sentence.
“This Sentence is False,”
It says, in all innocence.
Beware, do not judge this line,
Your best option is silence.
For if you say the sentence is true,
It is false by its own admission.
And then to say it is false,
Is also true and factual.
Like the liar’s sentence,
Nothing cannot be pinned down.
Every time you talk about it,
Its very nature gets switched around.
For example, Nothing may be defined,
As the absence of everything.
But the idea of absence ,
Is itself something.
And then, if you remove,
The very idea of absence,
Your original definition is negated.
You are back where you started.
So to summarize –
Paradoxes cannot be fixed in a place or time.
There is no truth, no state, that can be assigned.
Part 3: Ancient clues
In the ancient texts of Dharmic thought,
Nothing is described as confusion, as chaos.
It is every idea and its contradiction,
Yin and Yang, Sunyata and Brahman.
For example, the Nasadiya Sukta,
In the Rig Veda Verse 10:29.
Explains the beginning of the cosmos,
In the very first line.
It says : “First, there was neither non-existence nor existence”.
Let us logically analyze this sentence.
Let’s Apply de Morgan’s law,
And turn it into a simpler form.
It now says “First there was both existence and non-existence.”
And we have another contradictory assertion!
Part 4: The final derivation
Now that it’s clear that Nothing is a paradox.
It is time to move on beyond the orthodox.
Pay attention, what comes next,
Is an original thought,
If you miss a spot,
You will lose the plot.
The Nothing must be a magnificent construction,
If it is the source of all else, it must shake the imagination.
If it is a paradox, it must be the grandest one.
What is the natural solution?
Now hear me… I pose that Nothing,
Must be the set of all paradoxes combined.
All pairs of ideas in opposition,
Infinite possibilities without resolution.
What we have at this moment is very important.
I call it “Nothingness.” It represents indecision.
It is without purpose, without Truth.
It is total equivocation.
But to complete the Nothing,
The Nothingness, too, must be negated.
What is the precise opposite,
That must be precipitated?
The opposites of aimlessness,
Equivocation, and indecision,
Are agency, Choice,
And consistent Action.
These qualities are some of the properties,
Of what the ancients called Brahman.
I call it Chitta, or Choice,
The source of the Ashwattha tree.
It is pure agency, pure consistency,
It is pure quality.
And With Nothingness it pairs,
In an eternal symphony.
Part 5: Conclusion
So to conclude, in this Chapter Two,
We explored the great paradox of Reality.
To find Sunyata and Chitta,
The two sides of Unity.
The purpose of Chitta,
Is the next topic I shall cover.
But it will be a little while,
Before you see that appear.
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