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I love contradictions and dichotomies. They become an echo of something deep that starts resonating. Echoes are always fascinating.

A whole new meaning emerges from echoes with a core of silence.

Like kernels that are always hollow.

I dunno why I felt attracted to this song in “Jab We Met” entitled Tum Se Hi.

The lyrics of this song are as follows:

Na Hai Yeh Pana
Na Khona Hi Hai
Tera Na Hona Jane
Kyun Hona Hi Hai

This can be losely translated as follows:

This is neither attainment

Nor is there a loss

Your absence

Is like your presence

The ancient legends are also full of opposites.

This is what I found in Encyclopedia Britanica when I searched “Fullness-emptiness” looking for a shloka in the Upanishads

“Old myths and archetypes are full of examples of such dichotomy. The Zoroastrian tradition has Ormazd (the Good Lord) and Ahriman (the Lie); the Gnostic myth speaks of Christ and Satan as brothers; and the same idea is found in the Vedas, where the suras (“good spirits”) and asuras (“bad spirits”) are shown to be cousins. In a different context there is the androgyne (“man–woman”), the ardhanārīśvara in Indian myth. As for the Hindu jīvanmukta, the liberated individual, he is liberated from duality. This is also part of what the Lord Kṛṣṇa (Krishna) said, when he asked the hero Arjuna to rise above the three guṇas (“modes”). The Tantras refer to the union of Śiva (a Hindu god) and Śakti (Śiva’s consort) in one’s own body and consciousness and provide appropriate practices to this end. The Chinese had their Yang and Yin (opposites), the Tibetans their Yab and Yum (opposites), and Buddhism its saṃsāra and Nirvāṇa as aspects of the Same. In Prajñāpāramitā, a Mahāyāna (northern Buddhist) text, the Illumined Ones are supposed to engage in a laughter in which all distinctions cease to exist”.

One of my favourite songs is the Sound of Silence. A verse from the song goes as follows:

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Can you hear the sound of silence?