Tuesday 16 January 2024

Herrick's Umasvati creed


In this short birth
on this ever more imperfect Earth
Why be clever?
Or seek
as did Grothendieck
a Yoga of Forever?

Given that, but Whiskey, or Gin, lies in wait
For those averse to the Viyogini's fate
At David Deutsch's old Grammar School
Because I was and am an utter fool
My conatus required I conceive all possible cosmic constructors
As but the familial friction of my- forsaken!- karmic obstructors

Whenas in Kanchi Silks, my bridal Kashi goes
Then, then, methinks, 'bros before hoes'! 
Not mine, with Herrick's tidal creed can alter
For of Sand the Book of its every Psalter.


N.B
For Deutsch a constructor is 'anything that can cause transformations in physical systems without undergoing any net change in its ability to do so.'  Obviously, if ability is infinite, net change is always zero even if an infinite amount is taken away or added to it. However, Umaswati- perhaps working in a discrete math, combinatorial, framework- distinguished between denumerable and non-denumerable infinity, so as to arrive at an optimistic Soteriological result which renders Jainism 'observationally equivalent' to Advaita and Madhyamaka. What was Umaswati's framework? In Literature, there is the Jain novel where the same cast of characters are reborn to 'obstruct' each other's karmic progression to gnosis. But that's also what happened in the Swedenborgian 'Good Place' on Netflix!

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