Mount-universe

There was a huge mountain situated to the north of the village Fardeen. It was named Mount Universe. When seen from a distant place it looked like a statue of a lion.

The people of Fardeen village over the ages recognized this mountain as a great person.

Once upon a time, some people from the village decided to travel closer to this mountain. After traveling for a few days, they had almost reached it. They realized that the mountain was not like they had thought when viewing it from a great distance. It was now observed by them to be not like a huge individual person.

They saw various kinds of forests on the mountain with all kinds of wildlife, including beasts, grazing animals and colorful birds. There were many springs sprouting from the mountain top and coming down in small channels, making streams run in curved shapes throughout the valleys.

There were the possibilities that many other kinds of creatures were living in the forests and that there were treasures hiding in the mountain not yet seen by the people of Fardeen village.

When they saw all this, the people of Fardeen village were seriously distressed about their previous weaker knowledge of this mountain, which had been based mostly on hearsay.

When they returned to their village and looked back toward Mount Universe, they saw it again like an individual huge person. The view of Mount Universe like an individual being and then witnessing the plurality of life and possibilities within the mountain was new knowledge for the people of Fardeen village.

They started contemplating this issue and decided that they would continue discovering the possibilities contained in Mount Universe and the relationship of these multifarious possibilities with the individuality of mountain.

Hint:

This universe is from one aspect an individual being, while from another aspect it is plural. The knowledge and vision of this universe in respect of it being both individual and plural is a matter of great wisdom.

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