In and Out

There is a saying in tamil "Andathil ullathu ellam pindathilum ullathu", which roughly means whatever one sees outside resides inside too. This could be understood from various view points. One might interpret it as Every minerals that are found in this world can be found in body too as it is made of same five fundamental elements. May be one can think it as world can exists nowhere but in mind. If one wants to know this world it is better just know yourself. Even in "Lalitha sahasranamam" mother godess is called as "Anthar mukha samaaradhya bahirmukha sudurlabha", which means she is found well decorated when mind is turned inside, and impossible to find her when turned outside. Thinking on these lines, one can always find striking similarities between mind and universe. Talking about universe it is said its origin is not found, though as per some sciectists it carries zero energy, it appears to have infinite energy. We can attribute same character to our mind or manas too. Also one is not sure if universe is a infinite space, if anything can exist outside universe. Same goes with mind too. Any material's existence does not make sense without mind. In that way it is as big as universe itself. It is told that size of universe is not known, not even light has not visited so much of the universe, as it is so big, even light needs to take so many light years which is not yet over since big bang. Similarly I think even we by ourselves have not visited several dark areas of our own mind and our life time seems to be lesser to have visited every corner of it as it seems to be expanding infinetly each day like universe.

Thinkning on these lines is called "Antharartham". Any material existence can be interpreted with inner meaning. On seeing a sea one can be reminded of vastness of mind and its restlessness to the waves. One can find such interpretation for ramayana in blogspot of gaancase.

There is a Devipatnam in rameswaram, where sea is as calm as a pond because Shri Rama prayed to Narayana to keep the sea calm to perform his navagraha pooja. One may interpret inner meaning as one has to first calm down his mind first when affected by adversity which will enpower them to exhibit great valor against their foes. One can understand more from such stories as we sit and contemplate and Guess that is the true intent of all puranas and ithihasas.