BEING AND BECOMING

Time, the most interesting subject for scientists and philosophers; An object of amusement for amateurs. Think about it but it remains unthinkable; Feel about it but it remains transcendental; Keep it at your palm and it will flow like water. O Time, you life, death, and everything; In every form and formlessness; In every joy and joylessness; In every narrative and essencelessness; In every meaning and meaninglessness. Time, an artefact of scientific imagination; The root of creation, nurturance, and destruction; The total sum of Universe and Universelessness; The circular movement; The purposeless play; A poet's dream and imagination. Time, the seed of life; The mother of fear and adoration.

Tell me a wrong which may not be justified. Justification and rationalization are the archetypical code upon which our civilization has been organized. From the reasoning of bureaucracy to the judgments of courts are based upon justification. Games are, of course, played within the rules. Those who play the game and those who observe the game remain committed to the rationality of game. Does it mean that there is no other virtue required to be observed except the rules and its justification? What is so creative about the rules? Does it follow the change perceptible in our world? Can it ever be adaptable with organic development taking place in our world of reality. We talk about training the skills to manipulate the rules and its interpretation. But in the end, the game is being played within the rule. All manipulated meaning is attributable within the rules. The question of truth, justice, or virtue keeps revolving around the rules. This is how modernity rationalized, positivized, and...

I All forms of knowledge are system-driven. You dare to take a leaf out of tree and call it autonomous self. The fall and flight of it may be glorified as freedom, but in the end, one must admit its reality as a tree. And every tree is a system, a network of its multiple parts, whose identity and functions are determined by inter-play of its various parts. Knowledge is a system like a tree, whose possibility is actualised in cybernetic sense.              II The modern culture likes to propagate a culture of specialization and produces a few specialists, who barely understand life and its organic playfulness. A doctor, an engineer, a bureaucrat, a political leader, or a cosmologist perceives the truth in isolated sense, their education is limited, their sense of truth suffers from cave-mentality. A doctor who cannot feel the spiritual reality in patient is just like a shopkeeper who knows price of everything but value of nothing. A lawyer, who is amuse...

Subordination is a compromise of human's dignity, which radiates in every soul of the Universe. In ignorance, people keep searching the fulfillment in ideology, faith, material success, and entertainment, etc., Paradoxically, one has everything when one stops searching. And one forgets everything when the ecology of bafflement pervades and dismantle every iota of peace and tranquility. Human's desires are infinite like a long succession of time. Every fulfillment of desire leads towards another quest of desire. In this series of oceanic webs of desires, one gets nothing and looses nothing but remains troubled to meet with the perfection. What is perfection if not an image? Image whose realization doesn't stop one for imagining further. And the quest to realize a perfect sense of image makes one fearsome and anxious. In fact, every idea of perfection is created in antagonism of imperfections. Every attempt to eliminate imperfections leads one towards self-defeat. One can...

मानो तो बस उलझन है ना मानो तो दर्पण है कोई देखे तो वह सावन है कोई रम जाए तो मनभावन है कोई पूजे तो वो ईश्वर है कोई घृणा करे तो वो रावण है कोई खेले तो मनोरंजन है उस पथिक के लिये यह जीवन है

Picture Courtesy: Vrindavan Das Introduction: What is Advait? In Quest of the Ultimate meaning of life, Indian philosophers and mystics explored the question of life, death, and reality of consciousness. In Hindu tradition, Upnishad explored the relationship between atman and brahman, which is popularly known as Advait. This school of thought believed in the tradition of Jnana Yoga to contemplate the reality. Jnana Yoga is not meant for every ordinary being reason being, it is a difficult task to transcend the naam-rupa illusion, which makes our reality too entrenched with worldly affairs. It is almost impossible to believe that God is not outside us rather he is expressing itself in various forms. We are not merely the forms of clay rather that clay itself, the essence which pervades in the cosmos who is experiencing the world.  Erwin Schrödinger, a well known scientist, who made the huge contributions in the development of quantum physics, was a meticulous student of Upnishad. He...

     Picture Courtesy: Reddit Carl Gustav Jung, one of the great psychologists, once wrote about the ethics of a doctor. He said that a doctor, as a healer, required to be non-judgmental to heal a patient. Because, judgment or condemnation has a repressive potential, which is antithesis to healing possibility. Healing requires compassionate attitude whereas a doctor becomes one with the patient and witnesses divine will in the patient. Only an "unprejudiced objectivity" unlike abstract intellectual contemplation, diagnose the patient without any value judgment and heals his malaise. In “judgmental attitude” there is a danger of projection or introjection of Ego’s shadow over the object who/which is judged. Our judgments reflect our own image over others, in the sense that a judge judges or condemns his own being before its shadow is projected over the object, which is known as others. Due to this attitude, a judge suffers in his own self when his own conflicts appears eve...