In Infinite Expansion There's No Straight Line
Osho
What is Brahmn or Universal Consciousness? The meaning of Brahmn is that which goes on expanding. It is not that it has expanded or spread; it is not a static condition, but it is that which is constantly expanding. The activity is going on. What happens is constantly expanding.
Even from a scientific point of view, Brahmn has two forms one is the unmanifest, which is called asambhuti by sages of the upanishads. The unmanifest Brahmn means the zero-Brahmn, the seed-Brahmn.
Let us imagine the time when it had not started to expand, when the seed had not broken. Then imagine the absolute first moment of expansion and after that the sprouting, the continual expanding, the growing of the tree. From such a tiny seed, such an enormous tree will grow that thousands can take rest under its shade. And from that tree will fall innumerable seeds; and from each seed will grow again a vast tree; and again each tree will propagate countless seeds, and from each seed the tree and seeds and trees and seeds and trees, endlessly . Thus a single, minute seed, through its growing process, gives birth to endless seeds. The unmanifest Brahmn is the seed-Brahmn, the zero-Brahmn, the centre point.We can only imagine this, because the centre point can only be imagined. We know only the manifest Brahmn that which is outside.We know the tree-Brahmn which has unfolded. The manifest is not yet complete; it is becoming and is in the process of becoming, it is constantly expanding. Our universe is becoming larger and larger every moment. To describe its increase by the day is too much; it is inconceivable. Both Einstein and Planck, who did a great deal of research work around this theory , were baffled by it; they finally had to leave it a mystery .
But the upanishads talk about this phenomenon from quite a different and strange perspective, and it should be understood properly . If not today, then in the future, scientists will have to work from that perspective. But up to now it has not been the way of reasoning in the west, and there is a reason for this: the whole of western science has developed from Greek philosophy . It stands on the foundations of Greek philosophy , and one of Greek philosophy's basic beliefs is that time travels in a straight line. This belief has led western science into great difficulty .
Indian philosophy thinks about this in a vastly different way; it says all motions are circular. No motion can be in a straight line. The wise men of the east believe that all movements are circular. The earth revolves, seasons revolve, the sun, moon and stars move round and round. Every movement is circular, no movement is straight. Life moves in a circle. And the expanding universe, too, moves in a circle. Suppose a child remains young; then a difficulty will arise. Where will its being young end? Where will life stop if it goes on expanding and does not return to the point of death?
So Indian thinking says that this manifest Brahmn; in its expanding process, will pass through childhood, youth and old age and again return to fall into unmanifest Brahmn. It will again be zero and void. It will return to the original source from where it began its journey . Its circle will be a huge one.
Osho
What is Brahmn or Universal Consciousness? The meaning of Brahmn is that which goes on expanding. It is not that it has expanded or spread; it is not a static condition, but it is that which is constantly expanding. The activity is going on. What happens is constantly expanding.
Even from a scientific point of view, Brahmn has two forms one is the unmanifest, which is called asambhuti by sages of the upanishads. The unmanifest Brahmn means the zero-Brahmn, the seed-Brahmn.
Let us imagine the time when it had not started to expand, when the seed had not broken. Then imagine the absolute first moment of expansion and after that the sprouting, the continual expanding, the growing of the tree. From such a tiny seed, such an enormous tree will grow that thousands can take rest under its shade. And from that tree will fall innumerable seeds; and from each seed will grow again a vast tree; and again each tree will propagate countless seeds, and from each seed the tree and seeds and trees and seeds and trees, endlessly . Thus a single, minute seed, through its growing process, gives birth to endless seeds. The unmanifest Brahmn is the seed-Brahmn, the zero-Brahmn, the centre point.We can only imagine this, because the centre point can only be imagined. We know only the manifest Brahmn that which is outside.We know the tree-Brahmn which has unfolded. The manifest is not yet complete; it is becoming and is in the process of becoming, it is constantly expanding. Our universe is becoming larger and larger every moment. To describe its increase by the day is too much; it is inconceivable. Both Einstein and Planck, who did a great deal of research work around this theory , were baffled by it; they finally had to leave it a mystery .
But the upanishads talk about this phenomenon from quite a different and strange perspective, and it should be understood properly . If not today, then in the future, scientists will have to work from that perspective. But up to now it has not been the way of reasoning in the west, and there is a reason for this: the whole of western science has developed from Greek philosophy . It stands on the foundations of Greek philosophy , and one of Greek philosophy's basic beliefs is that time travels in a straight line. This belief has led western science into great difficulty .
Indian philosophy thinks about this in a vastly different way; it says all motions are circular. No motion can be in a straight line. The wise men of the east believe that all movements are circular. The earth revolves, seasons revolve, the sun, moon and stars move round and round. Every movement is circular, no movement is straight. Life moves in a circle. And the expanding universe, too, moves in a circle. Suppose a child remains young; then a difficulty will arise. Where will its being young end? Where will life stop if it goes on expanding and does not return to the point of death?
So Indian thinking says that this manifest Brahmn; in its expanding process, will pass through childhood, youth and old age and again return to fall into unmanifest Brahmn. It will again be zero and void. It will return to the original source from where it began its journey . Its circle will be a huge one.
