10/14/02
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Expanding Universe
Entire potential universe,
compacted into Effulgent Form
•Affected by nothing, detached from
everything
Revealed to the discerning
as the One
Kept from the ignorant as
none, the one and only spirit
•The one without the second, the one
that is free
That One, they say, created
the universe.
Again, when all merge back
into One
•There is no universe, only void.
---Poomthanam, a
sixteenth century Malayalam poet.
The poem seem to
come very close to the description of exploding a white hole into a black stretch and vice versa. Here, void represents what we have after the big crunch, when not even the empty space (set) is there.