These ideas are not unique, no! They aren't mine any more than they are yours, no! But what makes these ideas beautiful is when you see the reflection of your life in those ideas. They have been very much there, circling you, confusing you, attracting you, dumping you, and then one day the beauty of the idea strikes. Some exert such phenomenal power they make it to the center of your universe. Others barely go even as close to staying with you for a couple of days. No matter what, these ideas reflect the urge of human mind to learn and reflect, to solve and determine. To feel in control. To feel all powerful.
Yes, its these ideas which convert to theories, to doctrines, to principles. And in the process of making us powerful, they get so powerful they rule us. They guide us, protect us, prove us... and we love being with them.
But in ages comes a philosopher like Nagarjuna. A philosopher, who was powerful enough to present an idea that changed the notion of an idea. An idea, which converted to a doctrine, yes, but an idea that changed nothing. An idea that brought with it no identity, no self, no morailty, no judgment, no conviction, no authority. The idea made me lame, it made me sick and then it made me 'Buddha'. It made me learned, it showed me 'emptiness', it made me feel 'nothingness'. It proved there was no sorrow and joy, no day and night, no truth and falsehood. There was nothingness in the air (if there was air!). Something that's inspired from the great scholar.
"The philosophers have spent ages listing, searching and defining words of wisdom; words which they say would make you feel close to the 'paramatma', the almighty. Words that spell satisfaction, contentment, happiness, spirituality, andonandonandon. Alas, the human race never got even as close to defining them as it went on to understand the most complex of scientific theories that exist today. Theories which were given birth by questions raised a mere 100 years ago! Theories which changed the world around us!
So it makes me wonder: If such has been the fate of this search, that in thousands of years, not even a single soul on earth has done as good to listing, defining and searching those words of wisdom as has been done by Einstein to relativity, by Newton to gravity, and by Bohr to 'uncertainty', then does there exist even the slightest of possibility (hope! for some) of arriving at a universal definition of these terms? Would we ever have equations calculating satisfaction, summations leading to contentment and differentials leading to happiness?
And then, are we looking to achieve satisfaction? or contentment? or happiness? And is one different from the rest? Or are there more such terms waiting on the brim of your mind to fall off and stare at you with eyes wide open? Do you really know what you, and more interestingly, what every other human soul in this world wants so as to define these terms of wisdom?
This is the limit of perception! This is when you ask, how do I get all knowledge?
And then you feel nothingness. And then, you know everything (and nothing).
Think, you may, but these are questions beyond your tiny instrument of reasoning. "
Yes, its these ideas which convert to theories, to doctrines, to principles. And in the process of making us powerful, they get so powerful they rule us. They guide us, protect us, prove us... and we love being with them.
But in ages comes a philosopher like Nagarjuna. A philosopher, who was powerful enough to present an idea that changed the notion of an idea. An idea, which converted to a doctrine, yes, but an idea that changed nothing. An idea that brought with it no identity, no self, no morailty, no judgment, no conviction, no authority. The idea made me lame, it made me sick and then it made me 'Buddha'. It made me learned, it showed me 'emptiness', it made me feel 'nothingness'. It proved there was no sorrow and joy, no day and night, no truth and falsehood. There was nothingness in the air (if there was air!). Something that's inspired from the great scholar.
"The philosophers have spent ages listing, searching and defining words of wisdom; words which they say would make you feel close to the 'paramatma', the almighty. Words that spell satisfaction, contentment, happiness, spirituality, andonandonandon. Alas, the human race never got even as close to defining them as it went on to understand the most complex of scientific theories that exist today. Theories which were given birth by questions raised a mere 100 years ago! Theories which changed the world around us!
So it makes me wonder: If such has been the fate of this search, that in thousands of years, not even a single soul on earth has done as good to listing, defining and searching those words of wisdom as has been done by Einstein to relativity, by Newton to gravity, and by Bohr to 'uncertainty', then does there exist even the slightest of possibility (hope! for some) of arriving at a universal definition of these terms? Would we ever have equations calculating satisfaction, summations leading to contentment and differentials leading to happiness?
And then, are we looking to achieve satisfaction? or contentment? or happiness? And is one different from the rest? Or are there more such terms waiting on the brim of your mind to fall off and stare at you with eyes wide open? Do you really know what you, and more interestingly, what every other human soul in this world wants so as to define these terms of wisdom?
This is the limit of perception! This is when you ask, how do I get all knowledge?
And then you feel nothingness. And then, you know everything (and nothing).
Think, you may, but these are questions beyond your tiny instrument of reasoning. "
2 comments:
yes! yes! yes!
i wanted to write the first comment and lo! i got it!!
well,this comment is same as my previous comment..u r too good man!!
these thoughts have passed my mind but i never made it to this place.
very well written. very well started as well..the flow is awesome..
no more words to write!! actually my vocab is too bad otherwise, i could have expressed more.
and i really like ur work!!!
He he. Thanks for the appreciation. Bhawnayen important hain [:D]. Btw, don't worry about making first comments, this web page is hardly visited, ha ha!
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