The Light of Avala

The story of Kunti Devi … in the Mahabarata … begins … ominously … in her role as the mother of progeny … in touch with all life … the birds … anima … earth … sky. As a young girl … she is propositioned by the sun … as an identity on her male side … with whom she enters into sexual contact. The product of the encounter … is her first born son … Karnan. In the same way … she engages … Dharman ( Equity ) … Vayu  ( speech ) … and then the Lingga ( King).

 

It was my contact in the Indic upbringing … to the nature of a woman … and her wondrous progenic nature. It brought into illustration … the nature of the passions … and their influence on the mind. A male adolescent … makes a similar contact … in the mix of gender experience … but thereafter … may come to discern … the separate aspects of the male and female experience. It feels magical … almost dream-like … and is the source of much doubt … about its relation to plain wishful imagination.

 

In my present review of the issues … it offers much in the way of understanding … the physical nature of the experience … and I am surprised that its entirely logical … in the way life … first initiates the process of feeling and thinking. I undertake my observations … on the basis of Avala (*1) … that is a balance between the male and female qualities … of the body. Any errors I incur … would be attributable to the male bias … of the body … and should be discounted.

 

The experience suggests a self-sufficiency … in the way we are organized as mind and passions …  and I figure the man … extends the internal nature of the phenomenon … to the physical environment … while the woman … internalizes the experience. However … in principle they are both similar … with the man in engagement of the gross experiences … while the woman stays with the subtle.

 

In the sexual encounter .. between the genders … the man occupies the position of King … in the disposition of the woman … and its an experience of the male … that communicates love … understanding … knowledge … and the needs of the woman … to identify her personality … with the physical environment. That forms the basis of the sharing life … be that a movie and dinner … or a lifetime of living together and raising kids.

 

For the male … its the contact with the progenic natures … and it draws him into greater association with his work and colleagues … by the support of the subtle … that appears to affirm … his integration with the natural world … and society. The issues that rise … in the male experience … satisfy themselves by social communication … and discourses we undertake … and is often sufficient … to engage and keep our life moving.

 

In the woman … the divide between the internal and external … is less defined … and enters into a manner of convolution of purpose … haste and ambition … that raises a set of conditions … that is almost entirely subtle. When some of that spills over into her life with her husband … it may be intuitive of events in her husband's life … that's reflective of her internalized phenomenon.  However … the attitudes it encounters … the avoidance of pettiness … combine to cause the husband … to ignore much of it.

 

In the teenage … the phenomenon receives its greatest management … by a young person … not quite child and not quite adult. In the bed of hay … that the teen brings it to … it creates a pot-luck of responses from the passions … and mind … and the teen attempts a contrived purpose … to manage the experience. What would help … is simply to apply himself to the physical environment … and to address himself to study … work … and the prospect of setting up home with someone. But in the haphazard nature of relations … it causes the mind and passion to view each other as enemies … and will emerge at a later age … to create an accountability … on each other's part.

 

On review we find that the … gross passions subscribe to the relative nature of experiences … and seeks its satisfaction … in measured amounts of fulfillment. The subtle on the other hand … tends to be absolute in nature … and seeks all manner of acts … that will finally and completely … fulfill its purpose. No doubt the male attempts a communication … regarding the relative experiences … and is hard pressed to convince the subtle … of the truth of his understanding.

 

In the communication between mind and passions therefore … we encounter the big issues of creation and life … and the journey of life to perfect itself. And along the way … we rely on the help provided by faith … that engages our piety and innocent natures … or we get help from academia … that professes evidence of its knowledge … regarding the combined ambitions of mind and passions.

 

And where the subtle pushes it beyond … the knowledge from work … or casual faith … the man is forced to organize his life … to respond to the ultimate inquiries of the passions … and to bring it … to his self-realized truths about life. In addition to knowledge and faith … a large part of our responses are simply common sense … and in the manner we organize our point of view. But it is possible to come to such a relation … and to settle the main issues that have stood in the way of the relations between mind and passion … man and woman.

 

There are still many issues … related to the refinement of mind … passions … and body … that we are forced to postpone to a future time … for its achievement. And it makes us wonder … about the nature of the specie to come … that will satisfy all ambitions relating to creation. But in bringing our relations with the subtle to the fore … it helps to make clear the nature of the world … its many divisions … and our perceptions of the daily events that occur. Its a learning for both … mind and the incredible denizenry … of the passions.

(*1)  ... See Avala : Analysis of an Ode