If one is one, two is two and three is three,
Can you tell, what is that people cannot see?
If one is you, two is me and we are three,
Can you find, what is that between you and me?
If one is none, two is unconcerned and three is free,
Can you say, what is that which we shouldn’t be?
If one says me, two says we and three doesn’t agree,
Can you tell, what separates one, two and the three?
If one forgets, two regrets and three is on the knee,
Can you tell, what is not letting them all feel free?
If one is you, two is yours and three is ‘He’,
Can you imagine, where would ‘I’ really be?
Almost all languages we have or the vast known majority at least ( expert linguists or lexicologists can provide input ) deal with the structure of first person, second person and third person. In my opinion, as a language is the expression for how we perceive the world, this structure really gives us the insight into human psychology.
Almost every religion agrees on the principle of getting rid of ego ( the sense of ‘I’ or the strong sense of first person ) in order to attain any spiritual progress. The Bible tells us about loving the neighbor and that is only possible when the person rises above the differences separating one from another. In order to rise above those differences, one first needs to understand it.
Geeta says it right,
बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपधते
वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः || (7.19)
After many many births, when someone knowledgeable realizes the truth, he comes to me. But the enlightened person who really understands that everything is Krishna – the same ‘Bhram’ – and nothing else, is very rare indeed.
So at the end, everything is an interesting interplay between one, two and three! Someone who knows oneself, automatically understands the rest.
If one can answer all those questions laid out in this poem, one can definitely say that the one is really experiencing the oneness with the one and only existential truth! 😉
Enjoy 🙂
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