An Impending Revolution

At the outset, pardon me for being overly delayed in my response. Apologies! Contemplative thoughts visit seldom, something that betokens ignorance on our [my] part. Nevertheless, let us engage in some to redeem ourselves from the slavery of the senses, even if it’s for a brief moment.

While I find myself not even remotely qualified to answer your questions, I can certainly play a part in perpetuating the confusion, yours and mine alike. For the roots of clarity lie, perhaps, in confusion itself. Your e-mail reflected on many ordinary-seeming yet powerful and transforming concepts like love, relationships, sex, self-sufficiency etc. – all intertwined but with the two conflicting impulses of our bodies, always wresting with each other. To what end? I know not, yet!

However, there was one word in your text that particularly caught my attention – “revolution”. You used it just once, if I remember it correctly, and in that usage you led us, unknowingly, to a process that is both expected and required of us to behold the answers which we seek. I say this from my wonderment that the flow of life oftentimes has in its movement all remedies, yet we mostly tend to overlook. You penned the letter out of that movement and I came upon it through the same invisible force. And it is plainly known that such movements have led to revolutions of diverse kinds. History abound political revolutions that marked the rise and fall of empires and man has kept no secret of it, be it capitalist, communist, industrial, social or economical. Yet, to its own detriment, man has kept himself bereft of the tremendous possibility of a revolution of a different type, that stirs and spill on the inside. Should we want to gaze at our pasts and descend into sorrow for missing the opportunity that presents itself every moment? The tragedy of our times is but man’s ignorance of its capability to revolutionize spiritually. Perhaps, my words comfort me more than anyone else for they are my thoughts obscurely meted out for your curiosity. But, are we not borne out of the same cause, as is all of humanity, to reveal to ourselves the One Master, who is behind all revolutions. Should not we commit to the necessities of such a revolution to set it in proper motion? Even as we take refuge in words to revisit briefly what has been lost, can we not, in equal measure, throw ourselves at the very act that these words betoken? Oh, I have pondered over these words for far too long, yet they reveal too less. And they express even lesser! This all is part of the grand scheme of things which is mostly bypassed by the erring and monkey-ing mind. But, there is a scheme still of which we are a part and if we don’t play, it will be but fool’s errand.

My apologies if I digressed from your expectations of me but I am just a man at the center of a game of tug-of-war, where the forces which I intrinsically despise wield ever more power over me than the ones which are tender and brief yet ever-fulfilling. It is like the political revolutions of yore that often saw the rising of the deprived and enslaved against powerful and oppressive forces. Be it so for us, too. So I wish! For, make no mistake my friend! There is, undoubtedly, a revolution going on in us. And it is a folly that we are aware of it yet we rarely prepare for revolution. I hope and hope, with all my heart and the L-word at our side, that we achieve and liberate out of our own accord simply because we long to be reunited with ourselves once more.