Concave Mirror
It is about seven layers of our existence. Body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, ego and self. I always wonder, which is the innermost layer and which one is the outer outermost? I expressed myself about it, in this article “Concave Mirror”. You may agree or disagree. This article is also like “Music of Mind” – some random thoughts!!
The arranging of these seven layers should be like a concave mirror. For concave mirror if the object comes nearer to it, its image goes far from it. The object comes at focal point then its image goes so far that it reaches at infinity. This is the principle in car headlight, torch, lighthouse. The lamp is kept at the focal point of concave mirror so its light reaches far far away. What if the object comes nearer to the concave mirror even after crossing the focal point. The image cannot go beyond infinity. So it goes behind the mirror. In school days, it was further surprising.
There is a link between this concave mirror theory and our spiritual progress. If you go more and more inner and deeper to yourself, your horizons expands. Like if you can overcome your mind, be disciplined and show your integrity then you progress individually. In addition to that just be aware about anger, ego and your emotions. With emotional intelligence you can deal with difficult people and have a team of people working under you. Now just care your team members, followers, understand them, love them and then they will become loyal to you. Your reach expands. You progress further in corporate ladder. You start handling bigger group.
| Object's position (S), focal point (F) | Image | Diagram |
|---|---|---|
| S > 2F |
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| S = 2F |
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You will take more responsibility about your people, their work. You take blame on yourself and you expand further. Who belongs to your family? Yes at beginning you feel only your immediate relatives. As you progress, you include more and more people to you family. Your resident society/neighbors then your
country then everybody in the world. You belong to all and all belong to you. Remember? That dialogue between Mahatma Gandhi and his relative (brother? ). He convinced to Gandhiji that when we have family issue at our home, Gandhiji should not jump to social service. Gandhiji agreed and argued that the whole country is my family.
| Object's position (S), focal point (F) | Image | Diagram |
|---|---|---|
| F < S < 2F (Object at 2x focal point) |
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So you are going more inner and deeper to yourself through meditation, Yoga, devotion etc. You are approaching to mirror, to yourself, to origin, to center. And your image, your horizon, your influence covers more and more geographical area. At one point, you become enlightened. You got all the knowledge.
| Object's position (S), focal point (F) | Image | Diagram |
|---|---|---|
| S = F (Object at focal point) |
|  |
Now you know purpose of life, who are you, why are you, what are you, when you will die, everything you know. Now what? What to do with this body? This human body was given to you to realize yourself. Now it has served its purpose. Yet, you cannot leave it, because the present moment is not your death time. So you will do service. You will look around you. Yes people have so much confusion, misconceptions, misunderstanding about God. So you do something for them out of your compassion. You transfer the knowledge from one era to other era.
| Object's position (S), focal point (F) | Image | Diagram |
|---|---|---|
| S < F (Object between focal point and mirror) |
|  |
Now your image has gone behind the concave mirror.
Notes:
Thanks to my school teacher Mr. Bhabha sir , Mithapur High School (MHS)
Courtesy to Wikipedia for the images.
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3 comments:
Hi Manish,
Nice explanation about how spiritial grouth expands our ability. You have described it well with example of concave mirror.
Yes, I like this article and keep it up with your spiritual progress.
-Hiral
Hi.. Really good explanation.. the practical example really gives a clear perspective..
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Good one.
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