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[vc_row][vc_column icons_position=”left”][vc_empty_space alter_height=”huge” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”huge” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”huge” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_empty_space alter_height=”large” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””]

Ivalyou - I and YOU are ONE<\/h2><\/div>[vc_empty_space alter_height=”small” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space alter_height=”small” hide_on_desktop=”” hide_on_notebook=”” hide_on_tablet=”” hide_on_mobile=””][vc_column_text]As mentioned above, my sense of \u2018I\u2019 ends at the tip of my nose. Beyond that, every one (even, everything<\/i>) constitutes \u2018YOU\u2019. This narrow and limited, ego and misapprehension-driven understanding of I and YOU is common. Let us deep dive. The expressed meaning of YOU is understood by us all in the sense of someone who is not-ME. At this level of understanding, unification of I and YOU is not possible. To say that \u201cI am YOU<\/i>\u201d is absurd, even ridiculous!<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

When direct meaning does not lead us to a conclusive understanding, implied meaning must be explored. For example, a boy is carrying food for his father working in the fields. The mother may say, \u201cTake care, my son, keep the food safe from the crows!<\/i>\u201d Here,\u00a0crows<\/i>\u00a0imply not only the black birds, but also other birds or animals like dogs and monkeys who may attempt to snatch the food away on the way. Similarly, when someone says, \u201cThe house was shaking with his shouting,<\/i>\u201d he does not mean that the house was actually shaking as if in an earthquake! The implied meaning is that the people present in the house were terrified and unsettled listening to the person\u2019s roar of rage. Again, when someone meets his friend after ten years and exclaims, \u201cOh this is the same Siddhartha I worked with 10 years ago<\/i>!\u201d he cannot literally mean the sentence. A person changes over a period of 10 years. What is meant by\u00a0same<\/i>\u00a0is all the sameness that continues, irrespective of all the differences that have arisen between the two\u00a0Siddharthas<\/i>\u00a0over 10 years.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The sense of separateness arises out of individuation of perception through ego, which shrink-wraps the consciousness. When this ego-wrap is peeled away, what remains is the essential sameness and ONEness between I and YOU. Like, when the earthen pot is broken, the I-space formerly limited inside the pot and the YOU-space outside the pot become ONE unitary space. The unitary ONE-consciousness is the truth, the reality. It is simply realised (and not recreated or reworked mentally<\/i>) through understanding I and YOU as fundamentally and naturally ONE in the field of awareness.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Ivalyou<\/i>\u00a0enables sensitisation and contemplation on this ONEness. It is a symbol or imagination, if some may say so. But a very useful imagination! \u201cPlease bring me water<\/i>\u201d \u2013 the words in the sentence are imagination too, where meanings have been imposed on sounds. But a very useful imagination indeed! \u0100di \u015aa\u1e45kar\u0101c\u0101rya, commenting on the\u00a0Kena Upani\u1e63ad<\/i>\u00a0in\u00a0 c. 9th<\/sup>\u00a0century CE, said, \u201cAll knowledge derived from books is imaginary. Only that knowledge which is absorbed, lived within and becomes part of awareness is true<\/i>.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

YOU are only a reflection of I in the mirror of the mind. Let the mirror not limit the understanding of the imagined selves. Rather, let the mirror enable ME to see myself even more clearly in all the YOUs. At the purest level of awareness, YOU is the YOUniverse which includes ME. I am the infinite Consciousness that includes YOU. The word for\u00a0you<\/i>\u00a0in Xhosa, an African language, is,\u00a0Ubuntu<\/i>, which means, \u2018I am because we are<\/i>\u2019.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Brian Rotman in\u00a0Becoming Beside Ourselves (2008)<\/i>\u00a0explains how the spoken \u2018I\u2019 folds within itself the unexpungable invocation of \u2018you\u2019 to whom the utterance \u2018I\u2019 is addressed and how without \u2018your\u2019 presence human speech is impossible. \u2018I\u2019 also includes the generic \u2018they\u2019, the others, reference to whom is always symbolic. It is inevitable to conclude then with Eros Corazza, (2004<\/i>), \u201cOne cannot conceive of oneself as oneself without also\u00a0 conceiving others<\/i>.\u201d There cannot be any \u2018I\u2019 without \u2018YOU\u2019! This \u2018I\u2019 refers to a self-conscious entity simply known as the Self.\u00a0 As mentioned earlier in this book, the Sa\u1e43sk\u1e5bt word for I is\u00a0aha\u1e41.\u00a0<\/i>It comprises the first letter of the Sa\u1e43sk\u1e5bt alphabet,\u00a0a,<\/i>\u00a0and the last,\u00a0ha.\u00a0<\/i>The nasalization of\u00a0ha<\/i>\u00a0is indicative of the infinity beyond any sound.\u00a0Aha\u1e41<\/i>\u00a0thus includes all the alphabets, making sense of I, an all inclusive awareness of myself, which includes all\u00a0you<\/i>. While I makes sense of myself as limited and exclusive to the others,\u00a0Aha\u1e41<\/i>\u00a0makes me feel all inclusive, \u201cI include all, I am all, I am you and the whole of Youniverse<\/i>\u201d. The personal mission then is to journey from\u00a0I<\/i>\u00a0to\u00a0Aha\u1e41<\/i>. It is time that\u00a0aha\u1e41<\/i>\u00a0replaces\u00a0I<\/i>\u00a0in our daily communication.\u00a0I love you<\/i>\u00a0could be said as,\u00a0Aha\u1e41 love you<\/i>!<\/u><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

<\/u><\/u>Scientists also believe that the \u2018I\u2019 pronoun is becoming obsolete, according to an article from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan, in August 2015 edition of\u00a0PLOS Biology<\/i>. Recent microbiological research suggests that thinking of plants and animals, including humans, as autonomous individuals might be an over-simplification. Seth Bordenstein, Associate Professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, says, \u201cIt\u2019s a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. In this case, the parts are the host and its genome plus the thousands of different species of bacteria living in or on the host, along with all their genomes, collectively known as the microbiome. The host is something like the tip of the iceberg, the researchers say, while the bacteria are like the part of the iceberg that is underwater. Nine out of every 10 cells in plant and animal bodies are bacterial. But bacterial cells are so much smaller than host cells that they have generally gone unnoticed<\/i>.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Thus the body of a human, for example, called the \u2018host\u2019, comprises 40 trillion cells. Ten times that or about 400 trillion cells, are the \u2018guests\u2019 that live on the \u2018host\u2019 body. Each of the 440 trillion cells is an independent living entity, each having its own life cycle and intelligence. Together, they form the whole, known to us as our body! Microbiologists have coined new terms for these collective entities \u2013\u00a0holobiont<\/i>, and for their genomes \u2013\u00a0hologenome<\/i>. These terms are needed to define the assemblage of organisms that make up the so-called individual who refers to herself or himself as a singular, \u2018I\u2019.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

My Guru,<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Once, in a whisper,<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Muttered, and fell silent-<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

God is a poet,<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

He wrote only one poem though,<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Of only one verse-<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

the Uni-verse \u2026<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

I often strained my ears<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

To hear<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

That one verse which God wrote.<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

In the cankerous cacophony of a day<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

I once heard a whisper echo<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

In the sky dome of my heart-<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cIvalyou\u201d.<\/i><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

–<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Dr.\u00a0<\/b>Pawan Kumar Mishra<\/b><\/p>\n

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