'Two' is a curious and interesting number, next only to number one. With two begins the fight to be number 1. Placed between number 1 and 3, it is start to multiplicity of things. The haves and the have nots’. Of beauty and ugliness. Of shrewdness and guilelessness. White and black. With ‘two’ comes the concept of more; more than one.
There comes the concept of relative. Relatively better, relatively lazy, relatively happy. Thus in short it brings with itself the a term called ‘comparison’. And with comparison comes unhappiness (because today happiness is relative).
What I have written till now is that two brings multiplicity. But the way it brings multiplicity is by the order of words which we use with it. Two by itself does not intend to be bad. It is the way we look at it. White OR Black. Good OR Bad. Happy OR Unhappy. It is the ‘OR’ that has made the difference.
Black AND White, Good AND Bad, together make up the universe. It is just the way we look at things. Look at things in totality, do not split things up. The way you look at look at things will make up all the difference in the state of your mind. You can either decide to be happy OR Sad, or be indifferent thereby being Happy AND Sad all time; the feeling of everything in nothingness.
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'Two' does bring multiplicity as in AND and OR, but, it also gives us the opportunity to be doubly good, doubly happy and for that matter doubly sad too.
The significance of 'Two' for me is that it represents companionship, togetherness, affiliation, cooperation, partnership.
@ divya
may be i was unable to put that across well, what i wanted to put across was that if you say twice as good or twice as sad you are gain going into comparison. Take life and situation in unison.
When you say togetherness and cooperation you are again trying to divide you unknowingly are creating solitariness and opportunism.
All features mentioned by you are no doubt positive, but when you say positive at the back of the mind you have created something negative.
@ agam
What I meant was that it doesn't always have to be happy OR sad, or in contrast, happy AND sad. It can equally well be (happy) and (TWICE as happy), where, happy does not imply sad. This also means that instead of being happy AND sad, like you said, I can be happy AND more happy, its just a state of mind.
Likewise, positives and negatives, are also in your head. I may call togetherness as positive(though I did not intend to point at the positives alone; this was a random thought) and solitariness as negative and another person may do the opposite.
So, as far as this topic is concerned, we need not juxtapose togetherness with solitariness or cooperation with opportunism.
@ Divya
I am not against happiness, or for that matter twice as happy; the point i am trying to make is that living indifferently; when you have the state of transcendence; The importance of "Two" comes that we need to be indifferent for the two emotions Ideally ( As pointed by Lao Zi)
Binary stars are the only real constant in a universe full of galaxies that are full of stars. Two is magical if they keep circling each other.
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