Dissolving Reality: A Promising Journey into Defragmentation
Do you know what a Linga is? Discover it with me
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Immerse yourself for a moment in what surrounds you. That glass bottle, carelessly placed on the table. Solid, defined, with a precise name and function in your mind: “bottle”, a container for holding liquids.
Yet, try for an instant to dissolve all of that. Strip the object of every mental association, every definition and label that we have slapped onto it. What remains? An undefined shape, a set of lines and angles, nothing more than a transient configuration of matter.
Remove
Proceed with your gaze. That metal oven there, in the kitchen. Remove its name and the idea of a “cooking tool”. All that remains is a twisted mass of iron, a temporary shape that emerged from nothingness, a fortuitous vortex of subatomic particles gathered for an instant in that precise configuration.
Continue this experience with everything around you.
Mentally write “neti neti” — not this, not this — erasing every qualification, definition, and function that the mind arbitrarily attributes to the objects of the phenomenal world.
“Neti neti” is an ancient practice of negation developed in Vedanta philosophy to access the ultimate reality of Brahman.
Negate
Through “neti neti” we systematically negate every definition, name, and function that we attribute to the objects of the phenomenal world, dissolving all mental qualifications to access the ultimate reality, Brahman.
Have you ever thought about it? Everything that we take for granted as “reality” is nothing more than a coating woven by our mental categories, an illusion of solidity and permanence that the psyche projects onto a world in constant change.
“In the Supreme Infinite reside all the appearances of the phenomenal world”
remind us the Brahma Sutras.
“There is nothing that is not That.”
Beyond names and forms, the One Reality.
Dissolution
What you are witnessing is a progressive dissolution of conventional meanings, a “defragmentation” of the mind from the cage of habitual concepts. What remains, by the arbitrary impulse of your imagination, are only linga, sacred symbols devoid of attributes that refer to an Ineffable beyond any limitation.
Why the linga?
I chose the linga not so much for its sacred connotation in Hinduism, this article is not about religion,
but rather for its quality of “not wanting to show” a specific meaning or attribute of the Absolute Inconceivable.
According to Vedanta philosophy, in metaphysical terms, the linga represents the essence without attributes of Brahman, the Inconceivable Absolute beyond all qualification.
A simple cylindrical glyph that evokes a transcendent Reality beyond definitions and limited characterizations.
Transcending
Choosing the linga as an emblem therefore allows us to point towards that Ineffable which transcends conventional names, forms and meanings, remaining an open symbol, never exhausted in a single interpretation.
The linga thus becomes an image of the unfathomable nature of the Real, an empty mirror onto which to project our search for the ultimate Essence beyond any conceptual determination.
“In the Beginning, there was neither existence nor non-existence”
declare the Upanishads in one of their famous paradoxes. Beyond the world of names and forms, there is only Mystery, the unqualified Essence from which everything emerges and to which everything refers as a sacred Glyph.
Demolishing
Now, allow yourself to fully experience this state of “neti neti” vision. Wherever you look, no more defined objects, but changing linga, energetic calligraphies that condense and dissolve in a breath. Is this PC in front of you? A tangle of wires and circuits, a vortex of electrons forming fluorescent glyphs to which you can no longer attribute a stable identity.
The same goes for that person sitting opposite you. Having demolished the idea of an “individual”, nothing remains but an explosion of changing lines, sacred symbols in constant motion that compose and decompose that illusory figure we love to call the “human body”.
Purified perception
Everything, in this state of purified perception, reveals itself as a vibrant linga, a cosmic ideogram that inscribes itself for an instant in the infinite Sacred Text of Existence, only to merge again into the ineffable dance of the Formless One.
“Extraordinary and beyond all thought is the Form of the existing Being”
exclaims the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, evoking this unspeakable mystery that manifests itself as infinite sacred symbols, ephemeral calligraphies of the Absolute.
At this point, perhaps the rational mind rebels. It’s just another mystical fantasy, a game for transcendentalists, the sceptic in you will suggest. But pause your gaze for an instant on those sinuous lines that are composing and decomposing the form of your hand. Infinite trajectories of light and energy seem to come from nowhere and return there, in a breath. Are you so sure it is so “solid” and “real”?
Pulsating potentialities
Even modern physics, moreover, tells us of a universe made of pulsating potentialities, of “virtual” particles that dart out of the void in a dance of probabilities only to re-converge into nothingness, just a moment later. Sound familiar? They are the linga of existence, the eternal sacred symbols through which the One plays at manifesting itself as Many.
“As soon as the One is realized, this world becomes that One”
states the Bhagavad Gita. Beyond the illusory multiplicity of transient forms, everything is a single sacred Linga, a Glyph of the Absolute that endlessly unfolds and recalibrates.
Thalavanur Cave Temple, Chaturmukheswara Shrine, Interior View. Linga — India — WikiCommons Image — https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Thalavanur_rockcut_lingam.jpg/640px-Thalavanur_rockcut_lingam.jpg
Defragmentation
Allow then this Vision of the linga to captivate you for a while, every day. An exercise in “defragmentation” to free the mind from its habitual patterns and let yourself be permeated by the ineffable fluidity of Being, that endless Dance of sacred symbols that represent, without unveiling it, the ultimate essence of everything.
Increasingly, you will find yourself looking at what surrounds you with renewed wonder, suspended between marvel and disquiet at seeing the apparent consistency of the real liquefy into that play of iridescent lines, forms that emerge and re-dissolve in a breath. A hypnotic swarming of cosmic Glyphs, a sacred Calligraphy without author that envelops you.
You will then finally be able to understand the rapture of which the ancient texts speak when they describe that Beatitude of the
“state of Unity, in which the sage no longer has reason for disturbance”.
The One
After having dissolved every form and identification, as recites the Isha Upanishad,
“What pain, what grief can there be for him who sees everything as the One?”
Yes, that intermittent “defragmentation” of reality will also allow you to attain that condition of radical non-duality and freedom. Immersed in the Dance of the Linga, you will realize that you are no longer a detached spectator, but part of the One Choreography itself, a vibrant fragment of the Infinite Crypticity that unveils and conceals itself at every instant.
And it is in that moment of intimate revelation that perhaps finally everything will be turned upside down. No longer are you watching the sacred linga, but the linga revealing themselves as Your very Self.
Rejoining
A mystical revelation in which subject and object rejoin, and what we believed to be an indefinite multiplicity of divine symbols reveals itself as the One and Exhaustive Glyph of your own, ultimate and ineffable Nature.
Only at that point, perhaps, will you be able to smile that ineffable laughter in which all paradoxes are compounded. Because in that state of Superior Vision, there will no longer be “things” to name or dissolve into linga.
You will be the Supreme Linga, the Sacred Text in which All and Nothing are reunited in a Single ultimate Symbol, without attributes and limits: the Great Smile of Brahman recognizing itself in every changing manifestation.
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