100. Word is the Thing.

Evolution of our conceptual universe is all about the dynamics of psychic activity. Psyche or the source of thought, is life’s power of realising sensational appearance as reality.  

To the ear, word is but a sound. To the psyche or ‘soul’, word is an objective experience. To life, word is 'itself' being the power that is able to create a subject-object world. So the world of objects originates in conceptualisation based on knowledge, which have their roots in sound or language. How is this possible? That’s what life is all about.
You know about Samsara or this objective world, feeling exclusively real, only as long as life makes a 'feel' of an objective mental entity, as a centre, from which we operate. In Nirvana, such a make feel entity is thrown out of this psychic conceptual activity, maintaining no centre at all for such a 'me-sense' to occur. The absence of 'me-sense' culminates in absence of all objective sense of this subjective appearance and there is no objective concern of the world at all to any objective 'me' that is now 'not'.

A simple case, is to take a J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter work. There is a Harry Potter world that is imagined, this is converted to text or word file in 4 to 5 volumes. The film ‘Harry Potter’ is carved out of the words from these books, to remake the experience that J.K.Rowling has, as originally mentally imagined. So the entire text of only words or sounds, is made into a possibility to an entire experience of Harry Potter, by the filming unit. Its not only the visual, but the audio that makes it a powerful experience. You become the movie itself for a while, until you leave the theatre. The words in the book can also have the power of a virtual experience.

A new born child is an example of pure potential of life. Life as a child is made to experience sounds, to seem as objectified experiences. Repeated attempts my its mother creates the practice to form 'meanings' or concepts or objectivity, to sounds that are uttered.  It is fondled for a while and given the experience of a Mother to a Child. Then it is bombarded with sound to mean ‘Mom’ as that experience. So it learns to accept the sound ‘Mom’ for all the meaning made out to be that of ‘mother’as an experience. As the child gathers more meanings and experiences to the word ‘mother’, the new meanings as recorded as memories of new experiences or modifications to the word 'mother' and stored. The power of the word ‘Mom’ gets greater day by day. It grows like a child to an adult. It becomes synonymous with Mother India, Goddess, and what not. So power gets injected as its meanings, into that single word and becomes a motherful experience day by day, to denote whatever life wants, in unfolding of any event from time to time. It also grows to the extent that when used out of context or in a wrong context, it has the power to destroy such a ‘mis-user’ of that word and may lead to fights between two people, two sections of people or even two nations, when the word 'mother' is apparently abused.

Making meaning to a word or its sound, is to add its experiencing capacity. This is called conceptualisation. Its free floating after a while, when the word becomes its concept or meaning or experience. The word becomes the thing and the thing becomes the experiencing of it. This becomes useful in communicating your experience of the world or part there of, to make it the ‘others’ experience, so that, the understanding of the experience as maintained on the level of the communicator. At times, communication in words, tends to distort the original experience depending on the urge of the communicator to distort the experience or even on the part of the listener to absorb the communication is a distorted version. How all this has to unfold is decided by Life that operates itself as 'people'.

The mind, which plays the game of creating words out of experiences and re-creating experiences out of words keeps the two, floating at level with each other, to create this universe full of objective experiences.

In the absence of one communication to another, thoughts fills up time, communicating with oneself, as if 'people' even while being alone, doing nothing. So life is filled with experiences. It makes meanings out of all sensations that are visual, audible etc etc, finds individual meanings to parts there off and makes an experiences out of these ‘objects’ wound in ‘words’ around a pseudo ‘me’ which is an assumed experience-er that there should be, to whom such experiences are applicable, as if the subject experience-er experiences an objective world.

Memory plays a big part in storing all experiences as ‘meaningful’ events in time and space, adding past and future as if ‘time’, and here and there as if ‘space’ and this and that as if ‘objects’, have validity of their own, in creating experiences as if independent realities that makes up a real objective world.

So sounds, became words, powered to mean objective realities, including the word  ‘me’ as if a real entity, existing in a real ‘world’ full of objects, living a life and dying a death. It helps create stories about such experiences to be taken as realities and re-lived as memories, from time to time. Meanings or concepts to words even include emotions and sentiments that happen around them, that it can create such huge psychic powers, that when used to defend or attack in religious ways, can use human species to blow up the human species itself to a large extent.The whole universe then becomes a huge reality in space and time.  

In absence of this psychic mechanism called mind, keeping itself busy, working to make a world of reality out of perceived sensations, the valid reality of all objectivity, which is just conceptualisation that was happening, is laid thread bare its original appearance as just an appearing world of forms, whirling in its fullest beauty, creating and recreating itself, as if time and events, only for the purpose of enjoying its own game. A sense of ‘me’ within such formation of wholeness is lost to the background. The ‘you’ that  seemed to be there, all this while, is just lost to this new format of not having to need this ‘me-sense’. Everything seems full and perfectly in place, as now a sense of me and other has lost its relevance and life is just seen in its naked aliveness, in its fullest beautiful form, like a naked dance of life living itself fully. The feeling of an objective ‘me’ that is negotiating a ‘objective’ world simply goes missing from then on. This is a shift in perception that happens, fortunately or unfortunately not relating back to any ‘me’ that can feel this for ‘oneself’ as the ‘oneself’ of new experience, is lost for ever. Coming out of time has merged you into ‘life’ that was the only thing that always was.