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| This poem by coveted author Sir Vinod Kumar Shukl leaves one to ponder about the idea of infinity. |
Infinity. What is it? People call it with different names. Quantam Physicists like Einstein call it Black Hole, Advait Saint Adi Shankaracharya called it soul, mathematicians call it as imaginary, spiritualists call it as universe.
This concept of infinity has always intrigued me since I first studied in high school. The mere fact of how subtraction, addition, multiplication, root, exponent; leaves it unchanged is in itself a manifestation of it's preponderance.
Infinity refuses to give you power over itself. Infinity refuses itself to get compared. It is keen to grow and let go but, without changing it's fundamentals, it's identity. It doesn't allow itself to be overpowered as it is the power. It knows it all and yet is so humble. It does not resist. It embraces anything that you offer. It humbly gives you a piece of it without getting transformed. Such is it's beauty that as you delve deeper into the mere idea of it, you'll be stunned.
I wonder, how elated must it be if infinity was personified! I wonder whether the cause of my gratuitous happiness at times is that I could be infinity! I wonder whether all are infinites? All of us. All of us are powerful. It seems highly probable that we've just been oblivious of this power. Just like in the great epic Ramayan, Hanuman was oblivious of his power until he was reminded. Maybe this is a reminder too. To surrender oneself to infinity. To be the infinity. Isn't that why those who have extraordinarily excelled in their lives been able to to do so? Probably they had figured out the infinity within them. The likes of the legends like Buddha, Einstein, Gandhi, Vikram Sarabhai, Nadia Murad, Martin Luther King, Mandela, APJ Abdul Kalam, Jacinda Arden, the list goes on!
If you are infinity, what can stop you? What can hurt you? What can effect you? Nothing! If yes, then what's stopping you to be it?
Let's reiterate, "I AM INFINITY".
-Akansha Jain
