If Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?

 

Universe is chaos. Ultimate, unbridled, unhinged chaos. Galaxies chewing each other out, Blackholes swallowing Star Systems and other Galaxies in entirety, leaving them in eternal state of suspended animation at the point of Singularity. Large Stars collapsing unto themselves and exploding into spectacular Supernova deaths. Meteors raining death and destruction on planets. Here on Earth,  predatory birds, animals, fish hunting down and eating other animals even while they are alive. Snatching them from their environmnet and asphixiating the life out of them. Even predatory plant species choking out others, at scale. Inside Earth’s core, angry molten lava swirling, seeking any weakness in the Earth’s crust to burst out via Volcanoes, raining furious death and destruction. Then there are Storms, Earthquakes and other natural disaster happening regularly. There is utter chaos. It is a perpetual never ceasing Tandav, a violent dance of death and destruction unleashed on beings and non beings alike, at staggering unimaginable scale. 

Universe is also in ultimate fine-tuned Order. Precise laws controlling the perpetual movement of Stars in Galaxies, of Planets in Solar Systems. Round and round they go in perfectly crafted orbits owing to specific gravitational and other forces. The minutest change in those forces would collapse the entire Universe. Animals, plants being born following precise behavior of sub cellular structures. Blood flowing in our veins at precise rate, hundreds of billions of animal hearts beating at precise rates for the organism to survive, procreate, live and feel the Universe it is part of. All of it has to be caliberated to perfection for it to “be”, for anything to exist. Each of the billions of brains need to be fed with specific molecules of glucose carried by oxygenated blood in those finest of fine capillaries, through the entire life-span of the organism. Slightest disturbance in the system and there is no life. Everything existing in perfect balance, harmony and order, interdependent on everything else. Any significant changes and it will all fall apart, whether it is the the Solar System, Earth’s Ecosystem or our Biological Systems. So the Universe is perfect and precise “Order”. That’s what it is. An absolutely brilliantly regulated and choreographed dance of balance and Order. 

Universe is Love. God’s love pulsating through the heart of every atom as evidenced by the motions of the electrons, the energy and charges of each Quark, holding together every particle and by extension structure in the Universe. In living beings It is showcased through a mother’s love in the heart of every mother of each of the millions of species and billions of organisms, small or large. It is evidenced in the love between two beings of a species, male and female, that hunger to come together physically, emotionally and psychologically to procreate. It is pure unadulterated, abundant love. 

So the Universe is Chaos, Order, Destruction, Love, Beauty and Ugliness of gigantic, Universe size proportions. 

Wait, which is it? 

Actually, that may not be such an important question after-all.

A more pertinent question may be, who or what are we? Are we any or all of these?  Are we carrying in our heart, chaos, order, pain, love, beauty, ugliness? It may be that the Universe might merely be acting as a mirror. The grandest, vastest illusion to give evidence of who “We Are” at this point in the evolution of our being, reflecting where exactly our Conciousness sits at this precise time. 

For most of us, we may be a mash up, with bit of this and a bit of that. And “our” Universe reflects that. For some it might be leaning more into love and kindness, for others pain and destruction.

So if Universe is the answer, what is the question you ask. The question simply is, Who are we? That’s the only pertinent question of our existence. That is the most elemental, most foundational, most primal question of all.

If we pay attention we would notice that every nuance, every property of the Universe exists in exact mapping to our senses. If we switch off the senses one by one, all properties of the Universe, of size scale, color, sound, taste and feel dissappear. What is left is an inert, colorless, tasteless, lifeless sterile blob that we may still be aware of, due to our Counciousness, but no more. Try it. No senses left, what is the nature of the Universe now? Can’t have color, can’t have sound, can’t have texture, can’t have size… since all are observed due to our five senses, don’t they? Now if we do not draw upon the Universe from our memory, which was available to us only through our senses, what is the nature of it? A giant blob of something of unqualified character. Neti, Neti, not this, not this!

So, do we exist because the Universe does or Universe exists, in the way we perceive it, because we do? Can the answer to whether one is in a dream be ever known by the dreamer? Perhaps not. But what shapes the nature of the dream has to sprout from within the dreamer. Does it not?

The Universe does indeed answer “the” question of who we are, by mirroring us, pixel by pixel, grain by grain, feeling by feeling. So even those of us who do not give in to reflection, can see. In their life, their thoughts, in their emotions and actions, is the Universe that exists - for them. That they have created. They are the authors of it. Universe merely answers by manifesting externally, what we have created internally, in our minds and hearts.

Aham Brahmasmi!! they say. 

I am Brahm, the Creater, the Nurturer, The Destroyer!!

The Universe was indeed in Krishna’s mouth now, was it not!!