The thin line between the living and the non-living

The world is not divided between the living and the dead.There is no difference between what is animate and what is inanimate.

'Shabda'(sound) is 'Brahma'(life).When someone knocks on the surface of a table,the sound does not just emanate from the hand.It is the table replying to the knock.If you knock on some other surface,the sound will be different,varied each time.It is the way,the seemingly inanimate world speaks to you.There is 'Brahma' in everything.As long as you are willing to knock,even the inanimate will respond.Each time,without fail.Where there is 'Shabda',there is 'Brahma'.Animate and inanimate are distinctions born of perception.In reality,everything is living.

-Subroto Bagachi