When One becomes Two

(Durga, also Eve)

Alone, the ONE, that is to say, the Mother as the Creative, ‘waits’ prior to time and identity (read: self). Though whole and perfect, her true potential is unfulfilled because she lacks identifiable realness, i.e. a self that is real.

To experience her Self as real and fulfilled, she first needs to split her Self and create an ‘Other’, a relative. Tearing an ‘Other’ from one’s Self, that is to say, entering the world of relativity, is painful and sorrowful.

The ‘Other’ gradually evolves into an alternate whole but incomplete Self, incomplete (therefore ‘not good’) because it is ‘all alone’ (like Adam in the Garden in Eden). It’s when the One incomplete whole touches, reunites with the ‘Other’ incomplete whole that both become identified, real, complete, fulfilled and perfect.

At the moment of unification of the One with its offspring both experience Self-realization, namely the experience of true potential as an actual real identity (or Self). Both respond to self-realization with rapturous joy.

However, the joyful experience of the One and the Other becoming One identifiable reality last only for a (timeless) moment. Then the re-united One is alone, unreal and unidentifiable again, and must split again in order to re-unite again to re-experience her identity as a reality again, and so on and on ad infinitum.

For ‘One’ read: any living being