LAW OF THREE (26) Birth-Life-Death

LAW OF THREE (26) Birth-Life-Death

"Understanding is not the product of one function in man, but the resultant of several functions working in harmony. For example, if one appreciates something with the mind, one "knows" it; if one appreciates it with the emotions, one "feels"it; if one appreciates it with the external physical organs, one "senses" it. But if one simultaneously appreciates it with the mind, emotions and physical senses, then one understands it." Rodney Collin

Understanding requires discernment of the three active forces of any unity.  If we reflect on the nature of live we can easily discern the first two antagonic forces of  birth and death.  This two forces support each other and at the same time cancel each other.  Underlying birth and death is the hidden 3rd force of life itself,  the persistent an the immutable force that relates and eternally reconciles them both.

Time, an instrument of life moves always in the same direction.   Birth-Death exist in time.   We perceive Birth and Death as the world of the changing.  It may be referred to as the world of the transient and the eternal perishing.  Life is immutable..   Life is the persistent unchanging nature of reality not perceivable from a dual perception.

"He who sees the changing in the unhanging and the unchanging in the changing knows no sorrow" says a verse in the Upanishads."

The life cycle is represented in the Hindu trinity or trimurti as Brahma or the force of the creator, Vishnu as the preserver or reconciling force, and Shiva the destroyer or the eternally perishing. They represent the three independent but mutually necessary deities which reveal the unity of the Brahman.