Binary Additions.

Poetry : 28-04-2022

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Binary Addictions

(Sic.) 

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Do two wrongs make a right?

Do two negatives when compounded, 

Always Make a positive!

It depends.

If they are added, 

Or they are multiplied. 

Nevertheless,

Addition and multiplication,

Are again,

But in concept only.

How you could compound,

Two incompatibles?

Far from being compatible,

Time and Existence, 

Are but two such,

Entirely so distinct notions,

Assumptions only.

How you would possibly compound, 

The two, except in your imagination!

But wait, 

Maybe, We could see, 

Existence and Time,

Are mutually exclusive,

As well as mutually independent also,

Then We could perhaps find out,

If Time really exists or doesn't exist.

But there is no doubt, 

Time is measurable,

Time is immeasurable as well.

And Existence also like Time, 

Is measurable and immeasurable.

Even if that is true,

They have distinct, different units,

Of Measurements 

And I can't say, if the units are themselves,

Mutually compatible or incompatible.

Rishi exhorts us :

अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽविद्यामुपासते।।

ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायां रताः।।९।।

अन्यदेवाहुर्विद्ययान्यदाहुरविद्यया।।

इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस्तद् विचचक्षिरे।।१०।।

विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस्तद् वेदोभयं सह।। 

अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययामृतमश्नुते।।११।।

अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽसम्भूतिमुपासते।।

ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ सम्भूत्यां रताः।।१२।।

अन्यदेवाहुः सम्भवादन्यदाहुरसम्भवात्।। 

इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस्तद् विचचक्षिरे।।१३।।

(-ईशावास्योपनिषद्)

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Summarily :

Those who indulge in pleasures, seek fulfill-ment of desires, enter from darkness unto darkness only.

Even more so than them, those who indulge in knowledge and skill,

The consequences of both are different, 

Thus we have heard from those Rishi / sages, Who explained this to us in detail.

But those who know both the ignorance, the skill,- the knowledge as well, transcend the ignorance, skill and the knowledge also, and thus attain (know) what is life beyond death -the immortal.

Again, those who, (in their ignorance) don't seek to attain the higher status (like that of Gods and of the divine kind), and are happy in this worldly level, do enter from darkness unto darkness. But even more so than them,  those, who seek to attain the higher status and enter into rather the deeper darkness.

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