The flow through the Ganga, one side all the ghats and the other, nothingness, infinitude.
The ghats represent various phases in ones life. As one moves through them, one can see the liking that the mind takes towards one, and the recoil that it goes thru at another.
And then it occurs that this bias of the mind is artificial. All the sights encompass life, all of this is life. This is all of life in one single snapshot.
When the boat reaches the ghat from the middle of the river, it all becomes clear. People involved in all activity- prayers, passion, poignant, faith - the faces reveal all the states, all the moods. Life comes in front of your eyes.
Then it occurs that all such facets have the same content of life in them - from gorgeous sights to that of a man gobbling a morsel of food- the choice of one to another is an erroneous construct of mind.
This construct involves our deeper impressions about things, the construct of an inner samskara and the various outcomes of the same is also an erroneous mind process.
An evolute of this thought process is all the sights that encompass life of various people various modes involves the ergodic theory. The theory says the observation of a system that evolves in time, as opposed of observation of various instantaneous snapshots of equivalent systems with different initial conditions and evolution equations, would result in the same conclusions.
Implies that all the snapshots of all the people around are snapshots of ourselves projected out in front of our eyes.
Explains why Herman Hesse's Siddhartha lives as a boatman in the Ganga.
While in the boat, we had to go into the centre of the river. The boat appeared stationary. I thought it had been anchored. Nandu the boatman said it is not anchored, and is not stationary also. It is wood, will move in the direction of the flow - he explained. But I could not feel it, not even see it looking at the water- it looked all the same. The sandy bank also gave the same feel. Nandu woke me up and said look at the Ghats - where were we and where are we now. It was amazing - we hade moved a considerable distance from our earlier location!
It occured that life also is similar. Every day looks the same, just like the other. But between two points in time, we would have moved a considerable distance - from within and without. Well, shucks, it also turns out to be only in one way ..
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