Inside The Vedic Philosophical Mind Of Sushant Singh Rajput!

As the world still reels under the shocking demise of Sushanth Singh Rajput, and amidst a heated debate about nepotism in the Hindi film industry. Taking a brief yet much-needed look into Sushanth Singh Rajput's scientifical and philosophical beliefs, interests and passions shows us a brilliant mind of not only a brilliant actor but a very brilliant individual. Through his social media posts, we can get a glimpse of his intellectual thoughts and the deep hidden meaning behind it.

On May 26, Sushanth posted:

Sushanth talked about something called the Avatamsaka Sutra, one of the most influential Mahyana sutras of East Asian Buddhism. Written in Third Century CE, five hundred years after Buddha's death. Sushanth relates the concept of intergeneration of time and space discussed in the Avatamsaka Sutra with Einstein's theory of relativity which unifies space and time too. In fact Avatamsaka Sutra itself is based on another ancient idea explored in the Atharva Veda written in circa 1200-1000 BC , which is called Indra's Net. Indra's net is a metaphorical idea that multifaceted jewels hang around, and reflect and compliment each other along with a centre jewel. To put it in simple words of famed author and philosophy scholar Francis H Cook [1] :

"Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each "eye" of the net, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering "like" stars in the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring." [2]

Sushanth's post shows how much of a voracious reader he was especially when it came to the subject of philosophy, reading and understanding extremely complicated philosophical concepts that were filled with metaphysics and dated back to thousands of years earlier. And making a brilliantly accurate connection to those age old metaphysical concepts to Eisntein's physics. This showcases how much of a brilliant mind Sushanth not only had, but his yearning to find out the most deepest and darkest secrets of the Universe. How the Universe and its intricate threads operated. This speaks volumes about how much of a free spirited, intellectually curious soul Sushanth was. He wasn't just an actor. He was an explorer of the Universe.

Another gemlike post of his was on August 25th, 2019

A poem about Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph was a intellectual giant, a philosopher and poet and one of the key figures in the Transcendentaliss philosophical movement in the United States in the 1800's, Emerson was one of the few scholars of Upanishads and major Hindu philosophical texts in the Western world during that time. His poem Brahma, has multiple and beautiful metaphorical concepts of the Vedas and Upanishads explored [3]. It explores the eternal nature of the soul (jivatma), The oneness of everything, the (soul) jivatma and the paratma (God), and the deep rooted idea of non duality (Advaitha Vedanta), of a center-less, mature state of consciousness. An intense mindset of considering good and bad as one, life and death as one, You and Me as one, and even success and failure, rich and poor, pain and pleasure all as one. Such was Sushanth's brilliant mind that, he not only engrossed himself in the extremely noble and ancient ideology of non duality Advaitha Vedanta, but also fully understood the beautiful metaphorical poem written by Emerson, riddled with extremely complicated metaphysical metaphors that take years of study to fully decipher and posted it to the world. It shows the level of maturity and knowledge span, Sushanth has. A truly gemlike mind Sushanth had. In fact one article isn't enough for us to witness the intellectual giant Sushanth was, just through his Instagram posts. The knowledge is infinite.

A horrific tragedy is that we have no longer have this brilliant mind amongst us, a man who wasn't only a brilliant actor but also a brilliant philosopher who share his knowledge to the entire world through his Instagram account. In a age where, mindless tik-tok videos and moronically fuelled fake lifestyle posts are being shared by even popular Instagram accounts. Here was a man who used the platform to share extremely philosophical and spiritual stuff, age old concepts that enhance one's world view and intelligence. But Sushanth shall always be remembered in the pursuit of every soul's pursuance for knowledge, for knowledge of how this multiverse functions. And as the Advaitha Vedantha, Sushanth immersed himself in believes. All is One. And no soul is destroyed. Sushanth remains amongst us, Sushanth was always, is and will remain part of us, of the universal consciousness.

REFERENCES:

[1] The Vedic Metaphor of Indras Net

[2] Francis H Cook, Hua Yen Buddhism, The Jewel Net of Indra 1977

[3] A Complete Poem Analysis of Emersons Brahma