Shunyavada In the Upanishads there is a story: Svetaketu has come from his masters house, back to his parents. He has learned all. His father, Uddalaka, a great philosopher, looks at him and says, Svetaketu, you go outside and bring a fruit from yonder tree. He goes out, brings a fruit. And the father says, Break it. What do you see in it? There are many seeds in it. And the father says, Take one seed and break it. What do you see in it? And he says, Nothing. And the father says, Everything arises out of this nothing. This big tree, so big that one thousand bullock carts can rest underneath it, has arisen out of just a seed. And you break the seed and you find nothing there. This is the mystery of life -- everything arises out of nothing. And one day the tree disappears, and you dont know where; you cannot find it anywhere. So does man: we arise out of nothing, and we are nothing, and we disappear into nothing. This is shunyavada.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:55:18 +0000
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