Parzival
The Fool
The eyes seem to be amazed, perhaps gazing for the first time on existence, arriving out of pure potentiality--Atman (individual Self) breathed out of Brahman, or shot out of Brahman. There's a leap here, like a green sprout out of the ground or a chick out the egg. The dove, butterfly, caduceus, and sun-eye must in some way sequence the Self's long journey, but I haven't fathomed this yet. It's an unravelling as much as an evolving of consciousness. But the Fool has to find his way from starting as inexperienced Monad to self-pioneering his "journeywork to the stars"( Whitman). He's on his own to do it his way, absolutely free "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" (Tennyson). No impediments can halt his joys and sorrows as he Self-unfolds. But he will have to learn to find creative harmony with others also on their journeys with him and around him. "No man is an island" (Donne).
The tiger's bite on his thigh might be ensuing suffering as essential to the journey--not a warning but pain inevitable to come. Life bites everyone, more or less painfully. The challenge is to become who we are without biting back. Prior interpretations are much appreciated. So much here, so much deeper down is this Fool's foundation.
The eyes seem to be amazed, perhaps gazing for the first time on existence, arriving out of pure potentiality--Atman (individual Self) breathed out of Brahman, or shot out of Brahman. There's a leap here, like a green sprout out of the ground or a chick out the egg. The dove, butterfly, caduceus, and sun-eye must in some way sequence the Self's long journey, but I haven't fathomed this yet. It's an unravelling as much as an evolving of consciousness. But the Fool has to find his way from starting as inexperienced Monad to self-pioneering his "journeywork to the stars"( Whitman). He's on his own to do it his way, absolutely free "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" (Tennyson). No impediments can halt his joys and sorrows as he Self-unfolds. But he will have to learn to find creative harmony with others also on their journeys with him and around him. "No man is an island" (Donne).
The tiger's bite on his thigh might be ensuing suffering as essential to the journey--not a warning but pain inevitable to come. Life bites everyone, more or less painfully. The challenge is to become who we are without biting back. Prior interpretations are much appreciated. So much here, so much deeper down is this Fool's foundation.