SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion of law being the first step toward freedom, while beauty is the complete liberation standing on the pedestal of law? How does this affect your worldview of law, freedom and beauty? Can you share a personal experience of being bound by strict laws, and yet, transcending them to express beauty?
I am very fond of Rabindranath Tagore. I love his poems . he has helped me to appreciate the beauty in all phases of life. He inspired me write poems. Law and Liberty do not oppose each other unless I allow myself to be bound by the law. When a poem comes to me, I spontaneously go beyond words and grammar. I hear the voice without words. I transcend without knowing the boundaries of of the form. There is a natural flow from form to formless. from sound to soundlessness, a sky-like freedom.
Jagdish P Dave
Tagore is beautiful and true. This affects my worldview of law, freedom and beauty by keeping my sense that I do not know. I do not know the law, freedom and beauty. A personal experience about this arose when I realized strongly the enormous value of "not knowing." This allows me to be in the present and it allows me to not be a separate knower. It helps me be more comfortable being no one going nowhere. Knowing nothing in this sense has the same affect as knowing everything I need to know at this moment. That is a heavenly experience in one sense and it is in another sense the experience of everyone and everything at this moment.