From nothing to nothing and why? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Lalleshwari (2014)

They kept coming, they kept coming, now they’ve got to go.They’ve got to keep moving, day or night,and where they came from, there they’ve got to go.From nothing to nothing to nothing and why?

Lalleshwari

There is nothing called the ‘world’. What you call as the ‘world’, what you call as the ‘objects’ that constitute the world are actually nothing, because they are all in a flux. If there is something, it must be unchanging, at least for the briefest possible period of time. For something to be, it must be there at least for the tiniest fraction of a second. It must have some stability, only then you can say there is something. But in the world there is nothing because whatever there is, is not stable even for the millionth part of a second. The world is just a flux, a movement, a constant movement in which there is nothing but just the movement.

If you are not careful enough you might say, “There is a wall here.” (Pointing towards a wall) But is there a wall here? What you call as the ‘wall’ right now, is not the same ‘wall’ the next moment. Something has changed. So, where is the wall? What is it that you are calling as the ‘wall’? Just an illusion.

Give me something that doesn’t change and then we may probably agree that there is something called the ‘world’. But there is nothing that doesn’t change. So there actually exist no ‘objects’. There don’t exist any ‘objects’.