Looking at a snail glide along on the ground up close in my garden this morning I understood the lead actor's note to his children in the short film "Mumbai Varanasi Express." He writes, "I have not lived my life. I had only existed. Now I want to live it. Whatever time left I would like to devout to myself." He writes the note and leaves for Varanasi to await his death as his doctor had diagnosed him as having colon cancer and having the most only two months to live. Miraculously a year passes by. He regains his health and heads back to Mumbai to save his failing business left in charge of his children.
The snail just existed just as other animals do. Only man can choose to live a life. Of course, he could just opt to exist as do animals. I guess this is the reason that the elders often tell us that man has the Sixth Arivu to evaluate things and chart his destination. Man has the potential to reach for the highest goal set either by him or by God, in some people.
God asks us to "recreate ourselves anew in every moment of now in the grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are", writes Neale Donald Walsch in his book "The Wisdom of the Universe", published by Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. This stand and vision are reflected in Ramalinga Adigal's "Arutperunjothi Agaval" beautifully.
It is only after we have the Prapanjam or Universe as commonly translated, with us and by our side and on our side, that we can drop all the laws that govern time and space. For instance, what is right and wrong? We are told that there is no absolute right and wrong. The rights and wrongs change with time and space. When one transcends time and space, there is no right and wrong. What remains is the experience gained from the lessons in life. The Siddhas in having Prapanjam work for them could break the hold of nature's law and stand aloof and watch and manipulate things if the need arose.
Hence even the perception and understanding change and keeps changing over time and with newer experiences that are gained. It is true that whatever I wrote, in the beginning, might have changed over time. When I read and reflect on these posts, I do see how we have grown together in our understanding of life here and its purpose. Rather than have the heavens gate open up and the heavens fall or come crashing on us, he had us climb the creeper monitoring each move and action till we arrive at the gate. This is the Gnanam that Agathiyar spoke about, which most of us mistakingly think is gifted in a silver platter.