The song is about the origin of the Universe, but whereas many here have "Christianicized" it, it is actually about the origin of the Universe, from the Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta (Hinduism) perspective. The "She" is not humanity. Both the "He" and the "She" are the same original being (pure consciousness, Brahman). He uses He in the first verse and She in the second verse to defeat the duality of gender. The point of the song is that everything is Brahman; everything is the original being. If you want to put it into Christian language, "everything is God" and "God is in everything" and everything is "made of God" - there is no other substance in existance. Seperation is an illusion; the illusion of the game, or of creation. So the original being makes his/her creation and then "loses herself in it". She extends her consciousness into finite objects (all living things) that forget their true nature. The meaning of life is to remember who one is; not a seperate 'person', ego, or soul, but the one. At the time of writing, Jones was (and still is) exploring and practicing Buddhism. This story is the root of Buddhism. We are all inter-dependent and connected, because we are all "it". I recently visited a Nichiren Buddhist meeting in Durham, and Jones had been in attendance there just one week prior (he is friends with the group leader, through the SGI UK organisation). Nichiren Buddhist - like every form of Buddhism has non-duality at it's heart. Seperation is an illusion. We are all aspects or viewpoints (where the word 'ego comes from), of the original being in this song. Nichiren is just a way of practicing, that works with the law of cause and effect. Other forms of Buddhism; Zen, Theravada, Mahayana, etc, have alternative practices and emphases, but all are rooted in the non-duality that is the basis of this beautiful song.
The song is about the origin of the Universe, but whereas many here have "Christianicized" it, it is actually about the origin of the Universe, from the Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta (Hinduism) perspective. The "She" is not humanity. Both the "He" and the "She" are the same original being (pure consciousness, Brahman). He uses He in the first verse and She in the second verse to defeat the duality of gender. The point of the song is that everything is Brahman; everything is the original being. If you want to put it into Christian language, "everything is God" and "God is in everything" and everything is "made of God" - there is no other substance in existance. Seperation is an illusion; the illusion of the game, or of creation. So the original being makes his/her creation and then "loses herself in it". She extends her consciousness into finite objects (all living things) that forget their true nature. The meaning of life is to remember who one is; not a seperate 'person', ego, or soul, but the one. At the time of writing, Jones was (and still is) exploring and practicing Buddhism. This story is the root of Buddhism. We are all inter-dependent and connected, because we are all "it". I recently visited a Nichiren Buddhist meeting in Durham, and Jones had been in attendance there just one week prior (he is friends with the group leader, through the SGI UK organisation). Nichiren Buddhist - like every form of Buddhism has non-duality at it's heart. Seperation is an illusion. We are all aspects or viewpoints (where the word 'ego comes from), of the original being in this song. Nichiren is just a way of practicing, that works with the law of cause and effect. Other forms of Buddhism; Zen, Theravada, Mahayana, etc, have alternative practices and emphases, but all are rooted in the non-duality that is the basis of this beautiful song.