dzahr leenee? vohr kahmee chee tuhbchee

The human condition is a roller coaster of happiness and distress. One can characterize life as being tossed continually between desiring to own and enjoy things that we want and lamenting for things that we had but have lost. Happiness and distress, desire and lamentation, heat and cold, honor and dishonor, riches and poverty, success and failure, life and death, are dualities that bewilder people. Such dualities keep us conditioned to remaining in the material world and struggling continually to adjust to them.

The material world is a place where we constantly experience dualities.
Modern computer science is based on binary number technology. The overall effect of using products based on binary technology is the same as material nature’s duality syndrome. Our attention is captivated by duality experienced by the images appearing on the computer screen: good and bad in news, emails, movies, images, etc.
Such dualities captivate our attention and distract us from thinking about the real purpose of human life: self-realization and attainment of pure love for God and sharing that affectionately with everyone in our life.

Love of the Supreme God takes us out of the binary world of duality and permits us to enter the “monary” world of love of God and everyone and everything related to God. Everything in creation is related to God but our preoccupation with material dualities distracts out attention to this most essential fact of life. What is interesting is that in the English language there is no antonym for binary. Therefore, I have invented the word “monary,” which means single or one. The binary (two) concept of life puts us into the trap of dualities. Therefore, we cannot see clearly that such dualities exist because we have forgotten our original relationship with the One Supreme God.

For example, when we buy a new computer often we
see a little sticker that says Intel inside. This indicates that the processors that make the computer work are manufactured by the Intel corporation. Intel says the following on its web page, “The Intel Inside Logos that appear in advertising or on computer systems serve as a reminder to computer buyers that the systems they are purchasing contain a genuine Intel® processor and offers quality, reliability, and compatibility from the world’s largest chip maker. System labeling is the foundation of the Program that ensures the consumer can identify the Intel ingredient.” Similarly, the process of self-realization will lead us to understand that God is inside or present in everything in this universe from the single atom to the heart of every living entity. This is the goal of the “monary” vision evolved from self-realization. Such vision of the one Supreme God present everywhere in creation liberates us from the constant back and forth of binary vision of material duality.

The Armenian proverb says, “Where is there a tree that is not shaken by the wind.” Thus all living beings suffer in this world regardless of their situation. This suffering is called the struggle for existence which is trying to avoid the inevitable old age, suffering and death. We will all lose this struggle but we will try our best to avoid it by struggling to overcome the laws of nature. Rather than struggle with the impersonal laws of nature, it is better to approach the Supreme and unique Creator of nature and its laws to ask for mercy and help. The Armenian Church and all other apostolic churches have their sacred chant asking for God’s mercy. In Armenian this is called

Der Voghormia – Please God, have mercy on us.
Kyri Eleison – Greek for God have mercy on us

Der Voghormia, Lord have mercy
Der Voghormia, Lord have mercy
Der Voghormia, Lord have mercy
Der Voghormia, Lord have mercy

ahree, ahstvahdz, hahrtzuhn mehrotz Dear God, You are our only refuge
vohr ahbahvehn ehs neghehlotz. You protect those who are in trouble

hahss!, ohknoutioun dzahraieetz kotz, Please come to the rescue of Your servant
lehr bahhabahn ahzkeess haiotz : Oh supreme protector of the Armenian people

ahmehnahsoourp, yehrohrtoutioun, Holiest of All, the Holy Trinity
douhr ahsskhahehess khaghaghoutioun Please bring peace to the whole world.

der voghormia, der voghormia, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy
heesouss puhrgeech mehz voghormia: Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, have mercy on us