Omlettes and Eggs

How many times have you made an omelette? If you haven’t yet tried it, here is a recipe for you to try it out.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/basic-omelette

 In many places, omlettes are a fun, go-to meal that lets you add vegetables to your egg mixture. However, there is an interesting analogy in an omelette, or in particular in eggs that are beaten?

Ordinarily, eggs consist of the yoke and the egg white. If you boil the egg, the two become distinctly separate. You can open up the boiled egg and eat either part first. When it comes to the raw egg, the two are distinct yet this distinction is a bit subtle. It is still possible though because we have to do this separation at times, especially when making pastries. However, when you beat a raw egg to make an omelette, the distinction is negligible. If you ask a person to manually separate the two he would find it difficult as the two would have blended into each other. This very blending depicts our oneness of body and soul.

Over the course of history, philosophers have debated over the body and soul. In some instances, the debate also extends to the mind. While most thinkers in the Middle Ages held that the body and soul are intertwined with each other, the philosophers of the Renaissance and Enlightenment brought in a change. Descartes pioneered the notion of duality; Kant brought up his theory of knowledge unique for its 12 categories; Hume added skepticism to bring in more confusion.

However, amidst all these theories and proposistions, we see that the well-beaten egg simply explains the body-soul conundrum. While we are living here on earth, our body and soul aren’t two separate entities like the yolk and the egg-white in the boiled egg. But, it is intertwined as we see in a well-beaten egg. It is only at death, that our soul is separated from the body (Some Indian philosophy, foes a step further and says that if one has attained enlightenment, then the soul separates). Even in this theory of the soul and body being intertwined, there are a few questions that arise. However, we should realize that one thing in philosophy is that there are always objections and limitation to every notion, concept, or theory. This one, though having its own limitations, is able to closely explain the unity of the body and spirit. So, the next time you consume an omlette or beat an egg, remember how united your body is to your soul.