We all live linearly, first birth, then adolescence then Adult and finally Old. It's like going through an assembly line of sorts, where different parts are added to us that become a part of our personality going forward. In the beginning, the initial hands bestow us with- love, humility, hope, passion and curiosity, however as we go further down the assembly line; as if the hands working on us change, we are gradually armed with hate, greed, power and lust.
The initial hands know that our rather fragile body and mind need careful caress and vigil. These hands understand the tender nature of this linear evolution and hence strive for deeper and tighter installation of the earlier few parts. However, earlier installation might not be enough, hence a regular mind conditioning is necessary for the effects of the installation to seep into the cellular structure of our bodies, which can then become a part of our DNA double helix structure and act as a gene marker, so that it can very well become part of our inheritance.
The initial hands tread carefully, because they know while genes have a great memory passed on from ages, the world around us is armed with weapons that when attacked with full force can destroy the very atoms of our molecular structure. Hence, to make an impact early on -the initial hands, carefully ply layer after layer to the original structure and since this structure is still very pliable it needs repeated folding, rubbing and kneading. During this process, it's important for the hands to be mindful of the opportunity, an opportunity that heretofore was used to make the very hands which are involved in careful plying of these initial parts.
As we move forward on the assembly line, installed with love, humility, hope, passion and curiosity; while still very soft and pliable- we are carefully tossed to the next phase and back, so as to build resilience and trust. In this phase, our linear progression is met with initial repulsion from self, as our curiosity towards an array of disparity and passion to imbalance the status quo, leads us to question the initial parts and the initial hands thusly. This constant tossing and friction hardens the pliable and the soft nature of the parts and builds a crust of hope around the core, preserving the core from any foreseeable future attacks.
“Foreseeable future” are probably the two most contrasting words used together in the English language. They explain the impact of something that might occur or won’t, and we fabricate our actions based on those occurrences or non occurrences. Hence, funnelling out “hope”- that forms the sub-part of the initial installation, since we believe that this linear course will lead to a desired end. However the future is in fact unforeseeable and sometimes leads to undesired results and that's where hope pops again, hyper projecting the urge of that desired future and reminding us to stay on linear course and to follow it passionately.
As we go along further on this linear path, the number of hands that shapes and molds increase, further hardening the still vulnerable crust, as there isn't a lack of abundance of undesired and unfathomable eventualities on this linear path. On this voyage, there comes a time when the crust of hope weakens, with constant attacks originating from hatred and greed which then impregnates the weak crust and this hatred and greed ends up seeping into the crust. This becomes the next phase of our linear progression, the initial hands know that this part of the installation necessary that it might be, if left unchecked- can further veil the core or worse, it can seep into the core itself -on which the initial hands had worked very precariously to preserve and protect.
Moreover, initial hands having faced such events, had carefully and optimally designed the core with love, as they knew that only a core made up of love can repel the brutal forces of hatred and greed back to where they came from. The core, repels the forces back away from the crust it impregnates on its way in, but once the walls of crust are breached, then any amount of strong repulsion from the core will not be able to stop, some residual hatred and greed to find its way in the dark corners of the installation, and that installation however not planned becomes a part of our progression.
On furthering, we encounter more unplanned installations, as the residual hatred and greed feed on each other, they have the potential to encompass the core, and cover it like a dark cloud, disallowing the crust to emit the light coming from the core of love. Any mishandling of the installation, at this point can be catastrophic, as hatred and greed quickly collide to become giant fireballs of lust and power- which can further crack the crust and destroy the core. These hands that indulge in such mishandling, might do it knowingly or otherwise, but surely they disavow such unplanned installations once the mishap occurs.
As we come to the end of the assembly line, moving from one installation to the other, living our lives between these two linear dots- the track beneath us slows down. We get a chance to look back at our journey, to remember the various paths that we took, beginning with the first installation undertaken by initial hands to various random installations planned and unplanned. As we look back linearly and progress to the present that is today, we realise that those hands and those installations weren’t random, and as we zoom out we see; that the path that we took wasn’t linear at all- it’s a spiral staircase, much like the double helix structure present in our DNA.
All our lives we progress from one task to the other, zooming in on that course that leads us to that one next thing, the next target, a new goal. We achieve some, while some we don’t and some others end up being our long lasting aspiration until the day we die. While coursing towards that unattained goal, we slow down, take a detour and sometimes course correct to a different goal, making it non linear and sometimes curvy. This non linear approach toward a linear life can only be seen when we Zoom out and take a step back and see the curvy tangent paths that we took towards each of our achieved, and unachieved goals. Zooming out we realise that linear life is a never ending upward spiral akin to something divine, embedded in our DNA-where each course or task leads to either a new installation or a mutation of the existing one.
