LIFE - Twins Before Birth
A Mother's Womb
In a mother’s womb were two babies.
One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after
delivery?”
The other replied,
“Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery.
Maybe we are here to prepare
ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first.
“There is no life after
delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said,
“I don’t know, but there will be more light
than here.
Maybe we will walk with our legs
and eat from our mouths.
Maybe we will have other senses
that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied,
“That is absurd. Walking is
impossible.
And eating with our mouths?
Ridiculous!
The umbilical cord supplies
nutrition and everything we need.
But the umbilical cord is so
short.
Life after delivery is to be
logically excluded.”
The second insisted,
“Well I think there is something
and maybe it’s different than it
is here.
Maybe we won’t need this
physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life,
then why has no one ever come
back from there?
Delivery is the end of life,
and in the after-delivery there
is nothing
but darkness and silence and
oblivion.
It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second.
“But certainly we will meet
Mother,
and she will take care of us.”
The first replied
“Mother? You actually believe in
Mother?
That’s laughable.
If Mother exists then where is
She now?”
The second said,
“She is all around us.
We are surrounded by her.
We are of Her.
It is in Her that we live.
Without Her this world would not
and could not exist.”
Said the first:
“Well, I don’t see Her,
so it is only logical that She
doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied,
“Sometimes, when you’re in
silence
and you focus and you really
listen,
you can perceive Her presence
and you can hear Her loving
voice
calling down from above.”
— Útmutató a Léleknek
z. 1702
