The Superbrawl

asato ma sad gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrtyor mamrtam gamaya

vidyam cavidyam ca yas
tad vedobhayam saha
avidyaya mrtyum tirtva
vidyayamrtam asnute

yasmin dyauh prthivi cantariksam otam manah saha pranais ca sarvaih tam evaikam janatha atmanam anya vacah vimuncatha amrtasya esah setuh

indriyebhyah param mano
manasah sattvam uttamam
sattvad adhi mahan atma
mahato vyaktam uttamam

yada pancavatisthante
jnanani manasa saha
buddhis ca na vicestate
tam ahuh paramam gatim

Ya ya ya ya yada yadaya
Ya ya ya ya yada yada yada yada
Yada yada yada yada yada

bhidyate hrdayagranthis
chidyante sarvasamsayah
ksiyante casya karmani
tasmin drste paravare

From delusion lead me to truth
From darkness lead me to light
From death lead me to immortality

He who knows both knowledge and action, with action overcomes death and with knowledge reaches immortality.

In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air, and in him rest the mind and all the powers of life. Know him as the ONE and leave aside all other words. He is the bridge of immortality.

Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of all.

When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme.

And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence, then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened, the doubts of the mind vanish, and the law of Karma works no more.

These are the lyrics to Neodammerung, the epic music that plays throughout the Superbrawl. The original language is sanskrit.

I believe the first three lines sum up the trilogy.

"From delusion lead me to truth" - in the first film Neo becomes aware of the truth about his reality, and escapes the delusion of the Matrix

"From darkness lead me to light" - in Reloaded Neo is enlightened about the true nature of the Matrix.

"From death lead me to immortality" - In Revolutions Neo dies in the real world, but his mind is immortalised in the Source.

'Mr Anderson, welcome back! We missed you. You like what I've done with the place?'

'It ends tonight'

'I know it does, I've seen it. That's why the rest of me is just going to enjoy the show, because we already know that I'm the one that beats you!

Only one Smith fights Neo in the Superbrawl. Only one Smith fights Neo, because he can see that everything will lead up to him being victorious, and if something's inevitable, is time really important? I feel the reason given is rather weak, but for dramatic purposes they couldn't have had Neo fighting all the Smiths at once again.

"Can you feel it Mr. Anderson? Closing in on you? Well I can. I really should thank you for it, after all it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end..."

Smith is still unable to comprehend how humans can exist without a purpose. As Rama Kandra says in the trainstation, all programs from the machine world are given a purpose, a reason to exist. In Reloaded during his talk with Neo we see Smith thinks existence is defined by purpose - it's all he's ever known, so understandable he's confused when it comes to humans. How can a conscious being exist without a purpose? At this point he tells Neo he has found the answer. The way he sees it, the only possible purpose of life is to end.

This message of purpose defining existence is something Jean-Paul Sartre thinks about in his famous book Existentialism & Humanism. He says that in the case of humans, "existence precedes essence"; basically, we first exist, then while existing we give our life meaning and define who we are. With objects, "essence precedes existence"; first the object is conceived with a purpose, then it is made, brought into existence. This makes me think that with Smith, his essence precedes existence, which would arguably make him nothing more than an object, not at all self conscious.

The intersection where Neo and Smith hit the ground is the same intersection where Neo made the final phone call at the end of the first film. You can see the phone box on the very right hand side of the picture.

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