Mischievouschicken

The original story of the Mischievous Chicken was dictated by Meher Baba to Bhau Kalchuri during 1967. It is contained in the book “The Nothing And The Everything”, by Bhau Kalchuri. Together with Meher Baba’s book “God Speaks”, these two books comprise the main body of Meher Baba’s spiritual cosmology.

There is an Infinite and Shoreless Ocean which is eternally calm and still. That Ocean is the Ocean of Knowledge. The Ocean has Knowledge, but It is unaware that It contains Knowledge.

For countless aeons Infinite Unconsciousness was the only state of Everything. Yet in the Everything (which includes the Nothing), were included Infinite Energy and Infinite Space. And even though these two didn’t exist differentiated from each other, there was friction between them. So within the Deep Sleep of the Ocean, an unease was building up over the countless aeons. This is the unease the Mischievous Chicken was feeling while under the wings of the Hen. This unease can also be described as an unconscious-yet question forming in Infinite Unconsciousness: “Who Am I?” At one point, this building up caused movement. Yet this movement didn’t interrupt the calm and still state of Everything. It was a movement that happened in Nothing. It was the movement as the Mischievous Chicken first pushed aside the wings of the Hen to venture out. This movement resulted in Tej, the original fire of pure white light. But even this was before the Dream of Creation started. It was as if the seed of Imagination was born in the Nothing. It was only when the Nothing became aware of its Ignorance as to “Who Am I?”, that the Creation Point was established, through which this original fire issued forth in Creation. And during the next attempts of the Mischievous Chicken to escape from under the wings of the Hen, various qualities (colors) were abstracted from this fire.

From the differentiation of these qualities of the the original unified fire, came the elements that made the Dream possible. So the seed of Imagination, germinated into a world of energy, a world of subtle gases. And as the Mischievous One ventured for the last time out from Infinite Unconsciousness, it crossed these gaseous levels quite unaware of anything but a light with no color (darkness), which was the background of the Dream it was about to start dreaming. It was against this dark background that it felt hungry. And it was its surrounding subtle gases, which it had been unaware of, that condensed and offered themselves as the food to quench its hunger. And as it ate, it became part of the Dream. It ate the most condensed gas and it dreamt a very first and most abstract dream-form of being Hydrogen. But as almost no consciousness came out of this dream, it kept going. And in its forward march, nebulae turned to protogalaxies and stars that exploded to form denser elements and other events that it barely even noticed; because its only consciousness didn’t exceed the intelligence of such elements, which isn’t much, or can hardly be said to exist at all. But later, as it kept going, there were more complicated forms to dream through. So, further on it started having experience of some qualities like heat, visible light, solid or fluid surroundings, pleasure, pain, food it could chase all by itself, other entities that would chase it as food, fear, places it would be safe in, and finally it came to a most developed form in which it could even think and reason and build tools to make its Dream more comfortable. But then again, in this perfected form, it also started making things very complicated for itself.

So the Dream became increasingly interesting but also increasingly frustrating. In all this time, the original Ocean of Knowledge remained as calm and still as ever. All these events in Nothing, didn’t ever stir a thing in Everything. But when the Mischievous Chicken finally stopped indulging in the Dream and found out about it being just a dream and turned within and realized itself to be the very Ocean of Everything, a new state of the Ocean was born: Infinite Consciousness. But since Eternity knows no lapse of time outside Nothing’s imaginings, it can be said that as the original question “Who Am I?” was expressed, the answer “I Am Everything” (or according to another terminology “I Am God”) came simultaneously with the question. The Dream’s inner sense of time is irrelevant for Eternity. But it is only thanks to this Dream of Creation that out of Infinite Unconsciousness arises Infinite Consciousness.

(Some Phrases are from The Nothing And The Everything, Bhau Kalchuri)

(Excerpt from website)

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