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Essence of Essence

You and Me is in search of essence have travelled every path of familiarities. But the essence of essence escapes the imagined cage of perception and conception. Our quest is to fulfill the ego already filled in, like sands in a bowl of memory. We climb the ladder of name to mirror the familiar with its superficial familiarity; Like a family of Narcissus projecting its shadow to fill in the hollowness of its vanity. Behold your hollowness of familiarity and witness the estrangement of the ego. It melts down in contact of love. Its empty space is that silent dwelling place of communion of self and the Truth. The circular dynamics of self is like a cycle of time. It moves but go nowhere. The hope of dawns is buried in the despair of nights. The path of clarity converges into the veil of obscurity. Only unqualified love saves the damnation of essence; rescues it from the scholasticism and profundity. How simple it is to accept what is! Yet, how difficult it is...

मन

किसका किस्सा कैसी बातों में तुम उलझते हो मेरे मन? तेरे डोर में उलझी हुई हर बात का इतना ही मोल है कि जैसे तुम एक पानी का बुलबुला हो जिसके मकसद उस कटी पतंग जैसा है जिसकी उड़ान बेतरतीबी की हदों को अनुभव कर चुका है तेरा हर एक उड़ान इस बात का गवाह रहा है कि तेरे पंख हवा से बातें कर जमीं पर ही लौट जाते हैं तेरा शोहरत एक दिन मज़ार बन जायेगा जिसके नींद के इर्दगिर्द सपनों का कारवां घूमता फिरेगा तुम्हारे पेशानी पे जो ये लकीरें हैं वो बता रही है की तुम अभी अभी जिम्मेदार बने हो तेरे जिम्मे कुछ खुशियाँ कुछ ग़म मिलेंगे उसके सहारे उम्र तो कट ही जायेगी बस यादों के बक्से से निकाल कर तुम शीशे में ख़ुद को झांकते रहना एक अजनबीपन का एहसास तुम्हें जिंदा रखेगा आजतक तुम्ही तुम अनजान रहे हो तो जाने-पहचाने नाम का क्या करना? और जाने-पहचाने रिश्तों से क्या वास्ता? तेरा तुझसे रिश्ता कुछ कदर है जैसे एक मन अपने सपने को देखता है जैसे एक चकोर चाँद को तकता रहता है जैसे एक धड़कन दिल से जुड़ा रहता है

Do we fail in Trust?

Trust is the bedrock for strong relations and stable society, and the culture of suspicion does not allow the cementing of trust. The project of enlightenment as expounded by Immanuel Kant in 1784 was meant to question the lazy slumber from which humanity suffers, therefore, remains under the tutelage or dependence over others. He was exemplifying a culture of questioning and the spirit of inquiry to improve the arts, sciences, morals, and politics but not at the quest of ravishing the trust. In fact, he was against the dogmatic belief which belies the spirit of critical inquiry. Mahatma Gandhi, to the contrary, believed that criticism breeds violence, therefore, it is better to constantly experiment one's moral conviction about the truth and to bring it into the practice. Others may follow the such practices if such actions are morally worthy to be followed. These two methods of life appear to be contradictory, which are often rephrased into a binary of faith versus suspicion, or ...

Unfolding

Trust the unknown path unfolding within you Every step is destiny Every breath is life Arrival is a mistake Departure is a myth Path is moving like time It moves but go nowhere Its rhythmic dance creates and engulfs Its own progeny It has no beginning and no end Time is Life It was and it will be forever We are the stream flowing like rivers We are the ocean and its sublime heart Wonder! Wonder! Wonder! O my beloved mind The beauty of the world And Its chaotic harmony Witness O mind the ever present eternity In the movement of breath And the shifting clouds of thoughts

Subject as Freedom: A Phenomenology of Subject in Krishnachandra Bhattacharya’s Philosophy

I Introduction This blog explores the foundational concepts of Krishnachandra Bhattacharya’s seminal work, The Subject as Freedom. It examines Bhattacharya’s unique phenomenological and metaphysical approach to subjectivity, defined primarily as the progressive realization of freedom from the "object." By analyzing the stages of subjectivity, bodily, psychic, and spiritual, the blog elucidates how the subject moves from identification with the external world to the pure self-evidence of the "I." The study highlights the distinction between meant and unmeant contents, the role of introspection as a knowing function, and the ultimate realization of the subject as absolute freedom. II The Fundamental Distinction: Subject-Object In Bhattacharya’s philosophy, the starting point of inquiry is the distinction between the "object" and the "subject". The object is defined as that which is "meant," encompassing the contents of sense-perception an...

Martin Heidegger's Deconstruction of the History of Ontology

I Introduction In the opening pages of his magnum opus, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger resurrects a question he argues has been buried for millennia, framing his entire project with an epigraph from Plato’s Sophist: “For manifestly you have long been aware of what you mean when you use the expression ‘being’. We, however, who used to think we understood it, have now become perplexed.” This is no mere academic exercise but a deliberate reawakening of what Heidegger argues is the most fundamental and, paradoxically, the most forgotten question in the history of Western thought. For Heidegger, a pervasive “forgetfulness of Being” has characterized philosophy since antiquity, where the initial, vibrant inquiry into what it means “to be” solidified into a series of unexamined dogmas. The question was not answered and then set aside; rather, it fell into obscurity, concealed by the very traditions that were supposed to preserve it. This blog argues that Heidegger's critical "dest...