Shunyata- An Epilogue Comments

Ever since Ms. Valerie Dohren, whose poetic genius I love and respect, while commenting on my poem 'Creation', observed '....idea of something arising out of nothing is incomprehensible to us...'. I had been wanting to explain the genesis of my thought. She is very right when she says, ' Creation is something we will never understand, ' yet still human mind inquisitive as it is, has been trying to resolve this mystery. There is a saying in our part of the world, which means, 'In the beginning there was word [-om or ahem or...-] meaning perhaps sound an expression of energy. I think modern scientific theory of 'BIG BANG' bursting forth of energyis in a way a similar proposition. It's another matter that there is no explanation as to where it existed, how it came about, whence came the space and a host of other questions. Before it's emergence or manifestation in Big Bang it lay in a state of dormancy, in non-existence or as we call it 'Shunyata'. It is this emergence from non-existence to existence that takes the shape of Creation. I believe it is the same what Ms Anita Sehgal means when in her poem Shoonya
she says: -
Bindu, the point, where life in the womb begins,
where all sounds dissolve
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