When One becomes Two

Separation & Relativization

Alone,¹ the ONE² ‘waits’ prior to time, space and form, hence empty of identifiable realness.³ Though virtually whole, complete and perfect, she remains unfulfilled because she cannot experience her identity (i.e. herself) as real.

Hence, to paraphrase Gensesis 2, “It is not good for woman to be alone.”

To become self-identified, real, fulfilled, and joyful too, she needs an other (or helpmate). She creates otherness by splitting (or slicing) herself. In short, she enters the world of relativity, time and space.⁴ By so doing she becomes incomplete, virtually unfulfilled. That’s confusing, stressful, painful, sorrowful.

The ‘Other’ (or relative) functions as alternate whole but incomplete, hence identifiable self. It’s when the One incomplete whole touches, reunites with the ‘Other’ incomplete whole that both become (momentarily) wholly self-identified, real, complete, fulfilled, perfect and joyful too.

At the moment of reunification (read: yoga) of the One with the other the One becomes wholly self-realised, in other words, the One experiences her true potential as an (read: as 1) actual real identity (or Self). She responds to self-realization with rapturous joy.

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

1… Alone means: ‘One without an other’ or ‘second’. ‘One without a second’ or ‘… other’ is a metaphor for ‘The One’ = Brahman (see Note 2)

2… For ‘One’ read: Brahman, Atman, Prajpati, God, Allah, the Mother, the Creatrix, the Cosmos and so on. Take your pick.

3… Time, space and form emerge/arise with disintegration of the One and which creates chaos, violent turbulence, hence heat. When full integration happens (either @ max. entropy or max. anti-entropy), turbulence ends and the heat it generates extinguishes. The non-turbulated, cool state is called nirvana, and of which there are two kinds. The goal of Yoga and of Buddhist Pilgrimage is the ending of turbulence (See Patanjali’s Yoga sutra No 2).

4… In other words, she quits the momentary ‘isness’ quantum experience which is non-identifiable and unreal, but which is absolute, perfect and enters the analogue existence of identifiable and real becoming, but which is relative (Buddhist: empty (sunja) of essential existence)) and imperfect.

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