I won't be able to express through theories & equations. So what I'm saying is gross, it seems to bring down carefully crafted and cautiously maintained from the Ivory Tower down to the street below. I could never learn about things while they were in the majestic places. I never belonged there. I had to make the informations gross, as practical informations, to utilise them as I exist on the street, (? Standing on the surface of the planet : if it imparts some finesse to the convoluted strings of informations - it looks hopelessly chaotic, after they had to take shapes according the bony skull that protected it. It's just that at times I, just like any other man, begin to ponder deep and
wander far beyond the stopping line, in the realms of Knowledge gathered and recorded by man through centuries and millennia. One will be, more often than not, follow an Instinct one of the most significant factors behind how man has established a rule over Nature & eco systems where survival and struggle are concerned.}}
We all keep thinking WHY.
Why are we here.
Why is there the universe?
Is life relevant to the universe?
Do we, humankind, enjoy some special privilege in the entire universe?
I realize that one won't get an answer by just contemplating. There has to be a method, a disciplined approach otherwise the seeker will lose his sanity in a jamboree of informations arranged haphazardly : past, present, future, history, geography, astronomy, spirituality, concept of God, the limits of a community, the entire infinite universe..one can collect informations about each of these. They become Knowledge in human consciousness. Leave it at that, and it is useless.
One can make your brain a receptacle for informations : the content of the Library of Alexandria to theories of Hawking & Feynman, but that won't feed him, or provide extra shelter, or more importantly, knowledge can't improve a man or can make a man better. It all depends on our wish, intent, and an instinct to make ourselves more comfortable, with more peace & life, vis a vis a diminishing incidence of conceit, hatred & destruction. We all live life to achieve this, don't we?
There are ways to apply knowledge, be it a human being, or a family, or a community, or a sect , or ethnic and religious specificities, or political beliefs, or a social order or a nation.
Quoting Rousseau :"Everything wants more comfort & less struggle. It is this basic need of a fact around everything is happening in and around us every day." .
And these "everything"s guided me over time to realize that is an order by which I seek to understand Why. I'd been thinking of our roots, our origin in our planet.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part that is limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of sensory delusion in his consciousness.
The more I live on, biding by time, I understand that biding time is basically a flux of an infinite number of moments which keep streaming in from what we call Future. There is no moment in the Present. A moment comes from the future, goes to the past, through our perceptions as we keep on trying desperately to record the passing by. What we record is the Present moment.
It's a delusion - Time does not stop, neither does Space-time, because Space-time is infinite. We do not know the boundaries. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Anthropological study of the Vedic Period reveals that even the most advanced of civilisations lived with in a society which was based upon 'ethics of tribalism'. There was no precedence for these generations in any walk of life to look back upon, so they went by instincts as a member of Nature's family (just like other species of animals)
It is fascinating to note that while pre-historic and early ancient history of man, the human civilization was actually composed of tribes scattered all over the world. The demographic picture of such a world seem to have the element of survival, and consists of two different compartments which exist and survive parallel to each other. Man himself surviving in his community, and communities survive by struggle, fight, coexistence.
The tribes had their own anatomic feature with similar genetic patterns which can be termed as ethnicity of today, Caucasians, Mongoloids, Negroids. The tribes fought each other to survive, yet at the same time prehistory reveals exchange of knowledge and informations too, to coexist. It was not only exchange of informations gathered, but exchange of their own ideas and impressions from the facts of knowledge. It is sharing of Knowledge across the spherical stretch and depth of our planet. That's why ancient tribes and civilizations in different parts of the planet contain prominent aspects of similarity in early phases of history.
This is what converted isolated tribes into scattered civilizations who knew about each other, and the common knowledge helped them. That is how Nature has created Man who has progressed across evolutionary changes, the progress being a marker of Man's superiority as a species amongst other species.
We should understand that the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.
Here lies the inherent beauty of Life -- its freedom imcluding epistemological freedom. This is the beauty of Nature, as beautiful as the nature of Beauty. And that freedom prompts me to say that humankind is a great possibility.
Man can evolve phenomenally or he can remain stagnant - both are possible.
That is the beauty of being human.
It's for us to choose.
Dr.Anirban Chaudhuri,
Consultant Physician,
Mumbai, India.
Blog: ANIRBANSPEAK
http://anirbanspeak.blogspot.com
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"Whatever I did, I did it my way.."
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