The Golden Eternity
सुनहरी शाश्वतता- जैक कैरूऐक (२० अगस्त, २०१४)
उस सर्दी की चांदनी रात को नॉर्थ कैरोलाइना में एक देवदार के पेड़ के नीचे जो सन्देश मुझे दिया गया था उसके बारे में मेरे पास अब बांटने के लिए बहुत सी बातें हैं, अगर हम कभी मिल जाते है। सन्देश यह था कि कभी कुछ नहीं होता, इसलिए चिंता मत करो। यह सब एक सपने की तरह है। हमारे अंदर परमानन्द है। हमें अपने सोचते दिमागों की वजह से बस इसके बारे में पता ही नहीं है। लेकिन मन के सुखद सार में यह ज्ञान है कि सब कुछ हमेशा, हमेशा, हमेशा के लिए ठीक है। अपनी आँखें बंद करो, अपने हाथों और तंत्रिकाओं के छोर को ढीला छोड़ दो, ३ सेकण्ड के लिए सांस मत लो, इस जगत के भ्रम के अंदर उस चुप्पी को सुनो, और आपको वह सबक याद आ जाएगा जिसे आप भूल गए थे, जो आपको असंख्य जगतों में बहुत समय पहले विशाल आकाश गंगा के मुलायम बादलों में सिखाया गया था, या शायद बिलकुल नहीं। यह सारी एक विशाल जागृत चीज़ है। यह सम्पूर्ण है।
तुम जो दुनिया देखते हो, वह सिर्फ तुम्हारे दिमाग में चलने वाली एक फिल्म है।
चट्टानें उसे नहीं देखतीं।
ईश्वर का नाम लो और बैठ जाओ।
माफ़ कर दो और भूल जाओ।
पूरे दिन सबके साथ करुणा से व्यवहार करो
और तम्हें पता चलेगा कि तुम अभी से स्वर्ग में पहुँच गए हो।
यही वो कहानी है।
यही वो पैगाम है।
कोई उसे समझता नहीं,
कोई सुनता नहीं, वो सब
सर कटे मुर्गे की तरह गोल-गोल दौड़ रहे हैं।
मैं सिखाने की कोशिश करूँगा लेकिन वह बिलकुल बेकार होगा, इसलिए आखिर मैं अपने झोपड़े में चूल्हे के सामने खाना पकाता, प्रार्थना करता और शांत भाव में मिलूँगा।
विचार के लिए कुछ मूल प्रश्न: सुनहरी शाश्वतता से आप क्या समझते हैं? क्या आप किसी समय का अपना कोई व्यक्तिगत अनुभव बांटना चाहेंगे जब आपको महसूस हुआ हो कि सब कुछ हमेशा, हमेशा के लिए ठीक है। आप अपने विचारशील दिमाग को ऐसी अवस्था के रास्ते में आने से कैसे रोक सकते है?
जैक कैरूऐक १९५० के दशक में रूढ़िवादी विचारों का विरोध करने वाले एक साहित्यकार थे और ऊपर लिखा अवतरण उन्होंने एक पत्र के रूप में, शादी रद्द होने के दस साल बाद, अपनी पहली पत्नी को भेजा था। उनकी कहानियों, कविताओं, पत्रों, और निबंधों के एक छोटे संग्रह -"द पोर्टेबल जैक कैरूऐक” - के कुछ अंश।
Jack Kerouac was a literary iconoclast in the mid-1950s, and sent the text above in a letter to his first wife, a decade after their marriage had been annulled. Excerpted from The Portable Jack Kerouac -- a short collection of his stories, poems, letters, and essays.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does the golden eternity mean to you? Can you share an experience of a time you felt that everything was alright forever and ever? How do you get your thinking mind to stop getting in the way of this awareness?
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On Nov 5, 2023 Richard wrote :
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On May 23, 2022 Eve Reece wrote :
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On Jan 29, 2021 Ken wrote :
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On Nov 9, 2018 jude wrote :
the moment was when i held my newborn grandson for forever. all there ever has been or will be
was right there in my arms
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On Mar 4, 2017 Mikess wrote :
Golden eternity is a great post, I just loved the poet. It;s the great feel.
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On Aug 22, 2014 JoAnn wrote :
For me the golden eternity is Being Present - consciously in the present moment is timeless or time full. It is my peace, balance, equanimity, surrender, truth and absolute oneness with all that is, or with one, in this NOW moment. When I am here, "everything is alright forever and ever" always. I give the mind one point of focus at a time, i.e. deep active listening to another, carefully observing what's going on around me or studying an object giving it complete attention utilizing all senses where needed in harmony with watching the thoughts go by....living in meditation. What miracles occur!
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On Aug 20, 2014 Rebecca McCarty wrote :
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On Aug 19, 2014 AJ wrote :
"Some" understand and listen. When this connection is made, the "golden eternity" begins.
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On Aug 19, 2014 Syd wrote :
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On Aug 18, 2014 Sanjay wrote :
The world is an illusion and yet my story seems so real . Before the story and after the story is nothing , silence . I am so caught up in this story of my life , the pain , the suffering the happiness the joy and yet this story ends. What remains is nothing . 50 years from today all those who read this will be gone , maybe just some pictures on some walls may remain . All the load of worry we carry will mean nothing , the world will still go on without us. Nothing before birth , nothing after death .
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On Aug 18, 2014 ratnakar s wrote :
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On Aug 18, 2014 david doane wrote :
For me, the Golden Eternity is another name for the Undefinable, the Incomprehensible Mystery, Eternal Being, Awareness, God, Great Spirit. I see all those terms as interchangeable. Golden Eternity is beyond space and time and manifests through each of us, and in some moments, when we get beyond our thinking and our delusions, when we are still, we get a glimpse of Golden Eternity. It is already here with us, and we are with it, and we don't see it due our busyness or ignorance or whatever. Like the fish that doesn't see the water. I've had a few brief experiences in my life that I guess I was in Golden Eternity and felt everything was alright. Those are wonderful moments. I get my thinking to stop getting in the way of this awareness mainly by being present -- present to what I am experiencing and present to those with me.
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On Aug 17, 2014 Abhishek Thakore wrote :
The tricky thing about nothingness is that to describe it is to not describe it, to speak about it is to not speak about it....so being anchored in the 'absolutely nothing happened' includes letting go of the words 'absolutely', 'nothing' and 'happened'....
The other level is existential - where all meaning is created....
I wonder where Kindness sits in both these levels - because in nothingness there is nothing anyways, and at the existential level, all meaning is created (including kindness and its value)
Another level is where there are unintented consequences - where one can never tell. So a locally mean act may have a ripple of good (or we have too narrow a time frame and a space frame to define what is 'good' or 'bad')
So for me to accept the first part of the passage (Nothing ever happened) makes it harder to accept the next one.... :)
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On Aug 15, 2014 Kristin Pedemonti wrote :
Golden Eternity is being here Now. It is not worrying about past or future. There have been countless times when everything was alright forever and ever; those times when I allow myself to truly BE in the moment, to feel the Love than I am and to be Enough in that moment. To share LOVE from the Heart and Kindness is key. To get from the Thinking mind is to Listen more to the Heart; the heart often has far better answers than the head. Our heads may think too much while our Heart feels and knows what is the correct course to take. Love is always the correct course. Hugs from my heart to yours. I LOVE this passage from Kerouac as it truly shows his humanity.
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On Aug 15, 2014 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
Jack Kerouac's poem evoked a poem in my mind.
It is an echo, not the sound.
Do not chase it and call it your call.
Your legs will be tired and your voice will be lost.
Who is to forgive and what is to forget.
It is all the mind's game.
The loser is the winner and the winner is the loser.
Still the body and quiet the mind.
Let a smile flicker on your face.
Let it come and let it go.
Nothing is here for ever.
Even the time!
Nothing to do,
Nowhere to go.
Be here and now-the ever present present.
Jagdish P Dave