Rev.
Fr. Alexander Eravimangalam (Layappilly), Thycattussery, one of Appachan’s close cousins, came to visit
us. Jacob and I paid him our respects by greeting him in the name of the Lord
and then giving him a warm hug and kissing him. He held both of us close to his
chest and said, “You are so sweet. Do you know why? You are made in the image
and likeness of God.” He then asked us, “Whether we have seen God?” He said,
“God is a Super Natural Being. He is a gigantic creature, who is omniscient, Omni-present
and Omni-potent, God is a synonym for love. He loves children very dearly.”
I
told ‘Ammachi’ that I could not
imagine or even comprehend such a creature. He told us something about
‘trinity’ as well. She told us, “It is metaphysics, a difficult subject to
understand. Uncle Father might have told you about three independent entities
in God, namely the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Other religions too speak
on the same tone. The Hindu religion teaches that there are three persons in Easwar. They are Brahmavu, Vishnu and Siva (Mahadevan).”
These three entities have three special tasks to perform. Bramavu is the creator; Mahavishnu
gives life, and sustains or maintains the creations and Mahadevan (Shiva) executes the destruction. A human being is also
capable of performing all these functions himself. Therefore, a human being is
an epitome of God Almighty himself. It is curious to know that the word “God”
is derived from the words Generate plus organize plus destruction. Generate
means to bring into existence or produce [based on the Latin word generatus];
organize means make into a living being [from medieval Latin organizare] and destruction means the
process of being destroyed or a cause of ruin [from Latin destructio.]
The
Malayalam word ‘Thathwamasy’ means,
“He is you are”. The great sage, Sree Narayana Guru, belonged to this school of
thought. It is for this reason that he made a mirror, a deity, as the mirror
reflects the absolute truth. Shri. Kabir Das, a great Hindi poet, has written a
famous ‘Doha’, stanza, to the effect,
“The naval of the ‘Kasturi Mrigh’, Muskdeer,
found in Himalayas, contains ‘Kasturi’, musk. This is a valuable medicine, which is very fragrant. The deer does not realize that his own body
is emitting the fragrance. Therefore, it keeps moving from one pasture to other
hunting for the origin of this fragrance created by the ‘Kasturi’ within him.
I
have observed that all the fauna and flora on earth have this capacity of
creation, maintenance and destruction. This power varies depending on the
number of chromosomes in each of them.
The higher the number of chromosomes, the higher the degree of power
noticed. The number of chromosomes varied in each of the fauna and flora.
Excerpts from
MEMOIRS
An autobiography
by
Joseph J. Thayamkeril
Lawyer, Kochi, Kerala, India.
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