In the theory of language I presented in my pervious blog post, I by and large stuck to the language of Kashmir Shaivism. Now, ever since the modernity bug bit the Western man in the Age of Enlightenment, such language has come to be frowned upon as an unscientific idiom, threatening (wo)man to suck him back into the period of 'pre-history'.
The love of the rational idiom has withstood the ascendancy of quantum mechanics and the debunking of the all-explanatory classical Physics. So, even when the world has come to accept forms of non-rational idiom as 'feminine ecriture', it has not been able to overcome its distaste for non-rational lexicon. So, to make the theory intellectually palatable for the rationalist in the 'modernized (wo)man', I intend to 're-present' the theory of language in its rational avatar.
Kashmir Shaivism is one with Science in accounting for the birth of the world. The following mathematical equality presents this phenomenon:
0 = x + (-x)
In the above equation, while the left hand side represents the unmanifest reality, the right hand side represents the manifest one. Philosophically, we could allude to the left hand side as 'Asat' (Non-Being) and the right hand side as 'Sat' (Being) or the former as the Immutable Essence and the latter as the Phenomenological Existence.
As Science tells us, zero is the 'other face' of infinity. True to this, the above equation accounts for the birth of infinite pairs of opposite forms. So, the infinite expresses itself in 'in-finite' forms. By its very nature, the zero enjoys a paradoxical existence: it is and isn't. As 'nothing', it isn't, but as infinity, it is everything. As the other face of the infinite sea of Conscious Energy, zero/non-being is able to deliver infinite pairs of antithetical discrete entities, in both the states of matter and energy.
Prior to Creation, there is seemingly nothing. Sri Aurobindo in the Book of Creation in Savitri refers to it as the 'fathomless zero'. Spanning the left hand side and the right hand side of the equation is the bridge of Energy that is both 'continuous' as a wave and 'discrete' as a point of light, somewhat similar to what Quantum Mechanics refers to as the dual aspect of light as a set of discrete particles and as a wave. It is here that the ancient Indian mystics situate Shiva as the Truth-Consciousness and Shakti as the Supraconscious Energy, dissuading at the same time people from trying to see the two as being separate.
The birth of Time and Space is a consequence of the vibratory explosion that the scientists have referred to as the Big Bang. As students of science, we know that sound is a vibration. So, when vibration is born in the infinite sea of conscious energy, which till then is in a potential state, the sound that is born is 'Aum', the Primordial Sound. Not surprisingly, all religions of the world invoke it in varied forms as 'Ameen', 'Amen' and 'Aumkar'.
As the vibration of the Primordial Sound gives birth to secondary vibrations, they give birth first to vowels, which represent the various energies of Truth-Conscious Energy and then to consonants, which represent the various elements which constitute the universe(s). So, one sound gives birth to multiple sounds as the Existence of paired opposites comes into being.
It follows from this that sound 'pre-venes' objects as well as meanings. It is for this reason the mystics have always held prosody superior to meaning. It is contended that if you create the right rhythm you can create the form (ethereal/material) corresponding to that. This was the Science that the Mystics of the past espoused and practiced.
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