The world of Names and Forms

The world of Names and Forms

We have created an artificial world, which manufactures a world of names and forms, and we are lost in it.

They say, “What is in a name?”

But there is a lot in a name.

Names are like hyperlinks.

As soon as you think of a friend, his name will pop up first, followed by his physical appearance, his personality, his characteristics, and your experiences with him.

Now, try to think of the same friend, but keep his name out.

What happens?

Your mind will get confused. It wouldn’t know what to do.

The mind is like a vault, a holder of millions of such names (objects, people, situations), each name hyperlinked to gigabytes of information drawn from the man-made artificial world, all useless in knowing THE TRUTH.

Before man came, none of the life forms had names, and yet, it created us !!

How important names can be?

Going beyond the names is going beyond the mind and swimming in the formless ocean.

Same thing with the “I”.

“I” is the “name” you have given to all your experiences in life, stitched together; that’s all.

It’s not real; it is artificial.

Life is free, it cannot be stitched.

But by getting lost in “I”, we miss out on the most important experience that we all are here for.

“I”, an ignorance, has been able to hide the truth of life, just the way a small thumb can easily mask the mighty Sun.

Names are fantasies; they limit us; the life is a reality.

The namelessness connects with the reality.

Naming a rose gives you an individualized, limited experience.

A rose can be easily compared with jasmine or any other flower, at that level.

But by not naming it, its ephemeral beauty surfaces.

The name Shiva has been given to the existence, the totality.

Would the existence change if we didn’t call it Shiva?

Is the name Shiva important for worshiping the existence?

On the contrary, naming him “Shiva” only leads to idol worship, tons of rituals, and religious wars.

In the process, by giving it a name Shiva, we have deified the existence hoping it will fix all our life problems.

We are lost in the name Shiva, a fantasy, and we die in one.

The existence remains the same, with or without the name Shiva.

The beauty of Geeta lies not in Krishna worship, but in connecting with the formless and nameless life.

When we stop believing the world of names, the silence surfaces, bringing the truth of life to your doorstep.