GRAVITY: Blending Science with Spirituality Posted by Swami Anand Kul Bhushan Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 01:24 The latest Hollywood blockbuster, GRAVITY, is all about a nail-biting outer space adventure, right? No, its actually all about a spiritual journey into inner space. A veteran spaceman played by George Clooney on his last trip mentors a medical engineer played by Sandra Bullock on her maiden voyage 80 kilometers above the earth. Its all smooth going as the two share experiences and joke until all hell breaks loose when the debris from a Russian satellite comes hurtling in 3D. Now its a battle for survival. Like a guru, Clooney guides her with wisdom and humour even sacrifices his life so she can live. Now she is all alone in pin silence of space, like the experience in meditation by those who know. Sandra now uses all her energies - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual - to stay alive against all odds. She calls out to her daughter, asking her to pray for her soul. It is a desperate appeal. Actually, she is beseeching God without naming God. When she is about to die, like a good guru Clooney re-appears urging her not to give up. From now on the movie is about re-birth. The most evocative scene is inside another broken down spacecraft when she sheds her heavy helmet, wriggles out of her spacesuit and strips down to her T-shirt and shorts. Now she circles in a fetal position with an umbilical cord floating behind her. This is such a graceful ballet. Seems she is going through the Born Again group experience. Now she re-connects to her inner nutritional side. It is a re-discovery of her inner self. Now she is on her Odyssey of alone to the alone. Movies has vast vistas of space that show the earth as a speck at times to bring home the unlimited universe beyond all of us and inside all of us. These spectacular scenes fill the viewer with awe at the magnificence and the grandeur of existence that you can glimpse only in deep meditation. The ending drives home the re-birth message when she lands in murky, deep sea, swims with huge marine creatures and bobs up on the surface to breathe air that is life. As she nears the beach, she crawls on all fours and then stands up erect unsteadily to walk shakily. These few seconds bring out the entire meaning of evolution of human life and are topped by her first words. The movies Mexican director, Alfonso Cuarón, said, Adversities and the possibility of rebirth. And rebirth also metaphorical in the sense of gaining a new knowledge of ourselves. We have a character that is drifting metaphorical and literally, drifting towards the void. A victim of their own inertia. Getting farther and farther away from Earth where life and human connections are. And probably she was like that when she was on planet Earth, before leaving for the mission. Its a character who lives in her own bubble. And she has to shred that skin to start learning at the end. This is a character who we stick in the ground, again, and learns how to walk. GRAVITY is a tale of transformation and transcendence. A logical scientific mind is blended and reborn with spirituality - just like Osho says, Zorba the Buddha. Are we really so alone? Yes... more so than you know. You have not yet penetrated it; just the periphery... and you become afraid and you start escaping into the other. Gather courage take a plunge into your being. Let us be acquainted with our own center. Let us ask only one question sincerely: Who am I? All else is meaningless. Unless this question is answered, all your love affairs, friendships, all are nonsense. Unless this question is answered, nothing is answered. Go into your aloneness with only one quest: Who am I? And dont seek consolations because cheap consolations are available, and the mind is very clever in supplying them. Osho
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