ON CHAOS

ON CHAOS

Chaos was, according to Greek myths, the origin of everything. The empty, unfathomable space at the beginning of time. Chaos is the state the universe was in before it was created. Chaos is often identified as a god, who filled the gap between Heaven and Earth. Born out of chaos were the first beings: Gaia, Mother Earth, Tartarus, the Underworld, Uranus, the Sky, Nyx, the Night, and Erebos, the Darkness of the Underworld.

One of the most accepted theories of origin of universe is the Big Bang Theory. Stars originate out of what is essentially a heterogeneous gaseous soup- a nebula. Life too could develop only out chaos and destruction- a lot of lightning, thunder, volcanic gases were involved in creating the first organic molecules.

It is therefore important to not label things and phenomenon as good and bad, living a life in binary. Destruction is very much a part of life, as is creation. For any system to sustain, things must perish or decay.

The Taoist philosophy of YinYang also signifies the same. Often wrongly translated as positive- negative, feminine-masculine, Yin and Yang are not opposites, but rather complimentary.

In yogic culture too, Shiva and Shakti as represented as a part of whole- while Shakti symbolises the mother, prosperity, creation; Shiva symbolises nothingness, destruction and both, as a whole symbolise balance.

Balance is the law of nature. Chaos is not bad. Creation is not good. Nature doesn't believe in labels.

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Balance, growth vs development binary, use whenever you have a binary to explain- how these are only human made constructs.