Emptiness

Santosh Kumar Pokhrel

If emptiness is being nothingness and if this non-existence is not overlooked this emptiness must be considered as one universe.

When the emotional response is zero, miracles can happen. In yoga meditation, it is very difficult for the emotion to be zero. Thousands of memories come together. The mind has to work hard to control it and the chances are very low. The emptiness of the mind is where the origin of consciousness takes place.

When looked through the eyes of a lover, the person is a thoughtless entity, this is the mental emptiness in a hypnotized state. Miracles happen in emptiness.

At the climax of sex, emptiness may occur, so the state of trans is emptiness. Being empty is the basis for the rapid process to occur.

Emotions cannot be expressed by logic, so absence of emotions cannot be absence of logical tools.  The ground of reason is in the intellect far below the level of emotion, emotion is super-intelligence so reason cannot control emotion. So, the poet’s emotional upheaval is a dynamic powerful flow that ripples the emptiness of human hearts. In this sense, all creation takes place to fill the void of human emotion. This way, creations are the opposite of miracles. Nature makes many inventions to make itself perfect. The will of nature is a huge void which has been fulfilled since time immemorial. The existence of emptiness and its filling is the history of creation till today, therefore emptiness is the basis of the universe.

Shoonya of Sankrit or a Zero do attribute shape and volume to the physical existence and without shape there is no identification of the object, so zero is the first basis of cognition. Until now, the manifestation of creation is in emptiness.

Keeping the mind steady between cravings and aversions is the essence of meditation and this is the state of emptiness.

The sky is a void, space is void and the universe is a big void. These habitable and inhabitable worlds all rely on zero and the lives seen here are only glorifying this void. Their manifestations and disappearance are mere introduction of emptiness. Just as the child introduces the father, the mother and the clan, so the creation introduces the world and the world introduces the void.

Emptiness is the mother to the visible universe, and the lives are destined to continue to wave consciously in this void even after their physical existence is over. Therefore, a void is not an emptiness as such, rather a meta store of perfection, where the oceans of knowledge acquired by human civilization from time immemorial are moving in their waves.

The womb of the Creator is void and lives are manifested for the mere cognition and glory of their Creator. Emptiness is a necessity in itself which has been self-fulfilling.

The vagina of creation is empty, the womb of a woman is empty, the sky is empty. The world seen in this emptiness is created to enhance its dignity, so the baby born to a woman is born to glorify dignity of the mother, the planets and stars are come into being and perish just to glorify the sovereignty of the universe. This emptiness, this void, pervades all from the subtlety of human consciousness to the entire universe. Human consciousness exists in this emptiness. This emptiness is everything.

[Santosh Kumar Pokharel is a globally acclaimed and rewarded multilingual writer and poet from Nepal. He writes in Nepali, English, Hindi, and Russian. He has thousands of poems including stories and essays.  His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages of the world so far. Laureate of several international awards for his literary contributions to the world literature, the writer by profession is a senior civil engineer who completed his masters from Peoples’ Friendship University, Moscow.]