The Dialectic of Life and the Absolute — A Hegelian Reflection

 

The Dialectic of Life and the Absolute — A Hegelian Reflection

Life begins with a question: what is the goal of life, and ends by discovering that the goal was always life itself.
The inspiration of life arises not from the external world but from the Absolute that underlies it.
The motivation of life collapses when tied to outcomes, but rises again through karma yoga without phala.
Hegel teaches that Spirit evolves through contradictions; Krishna teaches that transcendence is important.
Thus the individual moves from the finite to the infinite, from self-will to serve the Absolute with the skills given.

The first stage is lower consciousness, trapped in narrow perception.
The second confronts the recognition that consciousness can con you when it clings to the empirical.
The third is the breakthrough: evolution toward Krishna consciousness — the broadbased consciousness.
Here the self aligns with svakarmana, discovering freedom in duty and duty as freedom.
So Hegel’s Spirit and Vyasa’s Wisdom converge in one exhortation: go on, do something, inspire someone somewhere.

For the soul remembers: I am spiritual, eternal, blissful, and therefore my search is a puzzle.
Why am I searching? Because ignorance sets the dialectic in motion.
But the solution was always near: kuch dhoondane ki zaroorat nahin, nothing to search.
For bas andar hi hai sab kuch, all truth resides within.
To realize this, one must simply ghoom jao, turn inward, and raha jao andar, abide in the core.

There, Syamsundar ka ek ansh quietly shines, waiting to be known.
Dhoond nikaalo, rum jao, dive into that hidden radiance.
And finally, as the dialectic resolves into peace, whisper: Raam Raam keha ke vishram karo.
The Absolute rests in you, and you rest in the Absolute.
Yahi zindagi hai.