IFA PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL TEACHING ON ESSENCE OF ORDERLINESS AND COORDINATION IN THIS WORLD BY BABALAWO OBANIFA -Obanifa extreme documentaries- Odu Ifa Obara Otura -Obara Tuyala yala
In this work Babalawo
Obanifa will engage in comprehensive Philosophical and theological thought of
Yoruba cosmology on the essence of orderliness in in human life and affairs . Orderliness is one of the
major philosophical and theological thoughts that Yoruba sages pay attention to
and lay emphasis on. It is believe that a person who cannot arrange himself orderly
or his affair will find other part of life difficult. To get our life on track we need to imbibe
spirit of orderliness as one of the core norms that human need to inculcate in
their life to move forward. It is applicable to an individual ,family , village town
,city or a whole nation. What do I mean
by orderliness withing the context of this work , I mean the state
of been arranged
or disposed in a neat, tidy manner or in a regular sequence: an orderly desk.
Observant of or governed by system or method, as persons or the mind. One of the leading authoritative Odu Ifa
that emphasis on the essence of orderliness
is Odu Ifa Obara Otura also knonw as
Obara Tuyala yala. This Odu Ifa emphasize that any person whether an individual or rulers who prepare
and engage in orderly arrangement of things will always get good result. Anybody
who default in the aforesaid regard by not making orderly arrangement and administration
of his life will always get bad result. This philosophical thoughts is prove to
be true and infallible in practical real life application. look
at a book; it consists of millions of letters and thousands of words, all of
them in a proper arrangement. What is the relation between these letters and
words? Are they placed haphazardly besides each other without any system? Or
they are arranged in a systematic manner?
After you read the
book, you conclude that all the letters, words, sentences and different
sections of it are perfectly connected to each other and appropriately placed
one after another in order to achieve a single aim. These letters and words are
arranged in a particular way and each of them has a peculiarity. You will
understand well that an aim was followed in arrangement and compilation of
these letters and words.
You will also
realize that the compiler of the book possessed intellect and understanding and
was previously aware of his work and he arranged the letters and words with
foresight and aim in this particular way; and that he is an expert of his
field. In an organized collection, each of its parts is related to others and
follows a single aim. Every part is having a particular position and function,
that if it is placed in another place or does not perform its function, its job
would remain incomplete and the intended aim would not be realized.
Can you have the
feeling that it came into being on its own coincidentally without any aim? Can
you imagine that an existing being without sense and perception – for example
the wind – has pulled the pen across the paper and this book was produced
through this process? You can never imagine that the book came into being
automatically without an objective and cannot in any way presume that it came
into existence through a thing lacking sense and perception and it
coincidentally took the shape of this book. Because you know that every
phenomenon has an appropriate cause and if someone was to make such a
supposition, you would laugh at him and consider his statement senseless.
Therefore the presence of the book and systematic arrangement of its words lead
us to conclude the following:
Firstly, that the
book is having a writer or a compiler.
Secondly, that the
writer is wise, intelligent and expert in his field and that he followed a
particular aim in his work.
In the same way,
every orderly and aimed mechanism leads you to conclude that it has a wise and
an aware maker and as much complex that machine, as much would be the
capability of its maker.
The great book of
creation is also having letters, words and sentences; every existing thing and
phenomenon are words and sentences of this great book. Occurrences and
phenomenon of the world are not haphazard and random, on the contrary like
letters and words of the book; they have order and coordination throughout. In
this great book, you would see that in the structure of human body, which is a
book of creation, there are hundreds of systematic and orderly mechanisms and
in the structure of each of them you would see precision and accuracy. This
system is made up of various organs that work in unison. They cooperate with
each other and fulfill the needs of each other. Every system of the human body
is like a huge workshop. And all these workshops are connected to each other.
All the physical organs of man work in order and coordination, so that man can
continue to live.
Human body also is
unable to survive all by itself. On the contrary, it depends on various other
existing things like water, air and different types of nourishment; trees,
plants and animals; and also various natural minerals of the earth. He cannot
live without them and he is also dependent on the heat and light of the sun,
the orderly movement of the earth and the rotation of the days and night and
the different seasons.
So much so, that
you would say that all of them shape a single real entity in which perfection,
organization and compatibility is maintained. Look at this great book of
creation; that is this world, carefully and take note of its searching and
beautiful words; you would definitely see coordination and system in them. What
do you see? You would well understand that this great creation has not come
into being by coincidence and without any objective. Senseless and imperceptive
Nature could not have brought into existence such a precise system. It cannot
write such a meaningful and aimed book.
By looking at the
world and by understanding its connection and coordination, you would nicely be
able to discover its actual cause. You would conclude the world is a creation
of a wise and powerful force, who created it with a particular aim and who is
also controlling it. You would see this system everywhere; every phenomenon you
study, you will become aware of the knowledge and power of the God(Olodumare),
creator of the world. And this way of looking and pondering is the best way to
recognize God; and it is called as the evidence of order.
The evidence of
other that nature have shown to man in every
element of nature including the physical make up of human their selves orderly and coordinated manner ,is not just
there as window dressing of nature. Rather than it is a lesson telling human being
their selves that they need to inculcate it into whatever they do to achieve desire positive results. Orderliness is one of
the law of nature that every element of nature which every human being inclusive
must obey. One thing about the law of nature is this. You can never break or
violate the law of nature. You can only break yourself against the law of
nature. The sage and Ifa theologians
before this time must have this in mind during the composition of stanza of Odu
Ifa Obara Otura where Ifa says that; things
must be arrange orderly in other to get orderly result. It can then be inferred
from this statement that if things are not arrange orderly you can not get
orderly results. On this Ifa says :
Omo oloye e to gege
Ko ba le gun gege
Omo oloye e to
rere
Ko ba le gun rere
Eye wereke
Eye wereke
Oun ni fi Iru foe
yin ara re
Dian fun Subulade
Omo obinrin Ode
Iwo
To ji ,to kominu
Ogun
Ebo ni won ni ko
se
O gbo ebon be, o
rubo
Oro ni ko ma ro
Ogun lo
Oro ni ko ma ro
Ogun lo
Atori lebe-lebe ma
le Ogun rinso
Oro ma ro Ogun lo
Translation:
Children of Oloye
(title owners ) , arrange it orderly
So you can get
Orderly results
Children of Oloye
(title owners ) , arrange it properly
So you can get proper
results
The impatient bird
The restless bird
It flew and uses
it tail plume to break it own eggs
This was Ifa’s message
for Subulade
Their daughter in Iwo land
Who wakes up to
think of evil
She was advised to
offer ebo
She complied
It oro (cacatu)
the will forcefully push away evil
It is Atori lebe lebe that will chase away evil.
Looking at this
stanza . You can pick out the themes . Emphasizing that if you wants Orderly results. You must
make orderly arrangement.
It is therefore of
paramount importance that we must always in every sphere of life put orderliness first , in every thing we do
as to get desire result. Let us learn
from nature the nature is the greatest teacher.
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