My understanding of life as coming from me:
Life is fire.
The question "What is life" has been with me for quite some time, I have asked this question to myself and sometimes shared it with kids too, that what is it that seperates a living from dead? The movement of an organ is too gross a definition which is not acceptable to me to differentiate alive from dead, and by the way what is it that allows the organ to have motion and what stops it?
Today I feel the difference is a fire which is there is alive, which gets extinguished in dead. Most importantly, the question used to get stronger when I think of plants. The same plant which I can eat, considering it dead, if put in soil, starts growing, if I carefully take it out is considered dead enough, to be again consumed, and if still put back in soil with care, will continue growing. So how do we know if it is dead or alive. What happens when any living being dies. I feel only after the fire is extinguished it dies, so the immobile plant too is dead only when the fire is extinguished. I can't see the fire and hence assume, it to be dead.
Now how does this work? How does the fire ignite at birth? How and why does it get extinguished? What supports life for the amount of year it is alive in the living being which varies for different species and even in same species varies based on various factors.
Lets see how I see it.
Basic science teaches us that any reaction takes place only when there is an activation energy and reproduction as I see it, is nothing but a reaction and in sexual reproduction (including plants and animals), the fusion of gametes produces an energy-the fire which is called life. This fire provides the energy for growth of the zygote to an embryo and then an organism. But in this process, the fire is only strengthened by the care the mother takes care before birth and not depleted.
After birth too, the fire is sustained by love and care alone. Any form of hatred just depletes the fire slowly and slowly. Then what does food and water do? Well food and water is sources of energy which lie much below love and it can't sustain the depletion of fire which naturally happens throughout the day. So eating good food and water just slows the process of death very slowly. So can a person filled with love, abstain himself/herself from death. Well technically speaking yes. Think of any person who has lived the life filled with love and you will see, that the person very well aware of the state of fire, released the lifeforce willingly. But they all died. Didn't they? Well yes, they did, but there are other components of energy source which needs to be at optimum level always. As they keep moving towards lower level, a misbalance is created. The sources of energy in descending order are as follows:
When we are angry, we consume the fire. When we are full of any vice, the fire is consumed and we feel our energy is getting drained and body full of heat. It indeed is drained. And when we are in environment full of love, the fire finds some fuel, it burns even more brightly and you share your light with others. When you receive a gift, you receive some fuel from the giver to help your fire and gratitude is just letting the fuel reach your fire and not rejecting the fuel as another fluid. And with gratitude, the fire burns even brightly and the fire creates the fuel. And more gratitude lets you create more fuel than you need, and you share the fuel as a gift to someone else. You can't store fuel so you have to share it. The fire is same in all, it is your mind which decides whether it is abundant or scarce. Considering it abundant, and sharing makes space for more fuel creation within yourself and more sharing. But feeling scare doesn't allow new fuel to get created, and you keep burning the old fuel and burning any fuel, creates some ash and byproduct which is removed only when you laugh. So we laugh, be happy and remove the ash.
What do various aspects of life do?
Schooling: Depends on the teacher. Can help the fire with good fuel or trouble it with incompatible fuel.
Service: You share your fire and create space for it to blossom within you. (Nipun bhai shares,"Service doesn't start when you have something to give, but it naturally blossoms when you have nothing more to take)
Struggles: Some polluted energy sources collected in our journey are burnt vigorously and removed when we are strong enough to handle the heat.
Life is fire.
The question "What is life" has been with me for quite some time, I have asked this question to myself and sometimes shared it with kids too, that what is it that seperates a living from dead? The movement of an organ is too gross a definition which is not acceptable to me to differentiate alive from dead, and by the way what is it that allows the organ to have motion and what stops it?
Today I feel the difference is a fire which is there is alive, which gets extinguished in dead. Most importantly, the question used to get stronger when I think of plants. The same plant which I can eat, considering it dead, if put in soil, starts growing, if I carefully take it out is considered dead enough, to be again consumed, and if still put back in soil with care, will continue growing. So how do we know if it is dead or alive. What happens when any living being dies. I feel only after the fire is extinguished it dies, so the immobile plant too is dead only when the fire is extinguished. I can't see the fire and hence assume, it to be dead.
Now how does this work? How does the fire ignite at birth? How and why does it get extinguished? What supports life for the amount of year it is alive in the living being which varies for different species and even in same species varies based on various factors.
Lets see how I see it.
Basic science teaches us that any reaction takes place only when there is an activation energy and reproduction as I see it, is nothing but a reaction and in sexual reproduction (including plants and animals), the fusion of gametes produces an energy-the fire which is called life. This fire provides the energy for growth of the zygote to an embryo and then an organism. But in this process, the fire is only strengthened by the care the mother takes care before birth and not depleted.
After birth too, the fire is sustained by love and care alone. Any form of hatred just depletes the fire slowly and slowly. Then what does food and water do? Well food and water is sources of energy which lie much below love and it can't sustain the depletion of fire which naturally happens throughout the day. So eating good food and water just slows the process of death very slowly. So can a person filled with love, abstain himself/herself from death. Well technically speaking yes. Think of any person who has lived the life filled with love and you will see, that the person very well aware of the state of fire, released the lifeforce willingly. But they all died. Didn't they? Well yes, they did, but there are other components of energy source which needs to be at optimum level always. As they keep moving towards lower level, a misbalance is created. The sources of energy in descending order are as follows:
- Love
- Space
- Fire
- Air
- Soil
- Water
- Food
When we are angry, we consume the fire. When we are full of any vice, the fire is consumed and we feel our energy is getting drained and body full of heat. It indeed is drained. And when we are in environment full of love, the fire finds some fuel, it burns even more brightly and you share your light with others. When you receive a gift, you receive some fuel from the giver to help your fire and gratitude is just letting the fuel reach your fire and not rejecting the fuel as another fluid. And with gratitude, the fire burns even brightly and the fire creates the fuel. And more gratitude lets you create more fuel than you need, and you share the fuel as a gift to someone else. You can't store fuel so you have to share it. The fire is same in all, it is your mind which decides whether it is abundant or scarce. Considering it abundant, and sharing makes space for more fuel creation within yourself and more sharing. But feeling scare doesn't allow new fuel to get created, and you keep burning the old fuel and burning any fuel, creates some ash and byproduct which is removed only when you laugh. So we laugh, be happy and remove the ash.
What do various aspects of life do?
Schooling: Depends on the teacher. Can help the fire with good fuel or trouble it with incompatible fuel.
Service: You share your fire and create space for it to blossom within you. (Nipun bhai shares,"Service doesn't start when you have something to give, but it naturally blossoms when you have nothing more to take)
Struggles: Some polluted energy sources collected in our journey are burnt vigorously and removed when we are strong enough to handle the heat.
