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My Column
Like Karl von Clusewitz once said, " All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are." But one major difference between illusion and ignorance is that the reality is blocked in an illusion or fog, while in ignorance or darkness we are totally unaware of it. Perhaps perception or approach plays an important part in any scene or conception; not only in success or failure but even in our approach to the things; How we feel & take or tackle them; not only in life and its joys but perhaps towards hardship and filures too. There is a pragmatic explanation of it all in Upanishad . The Antithesis of Knowing Into blind darkness enter they That worship ignorance; Into darkness greater than that, as it were , they that delight in knowledge. Other, indeed they say, than knowledge! Other , they say, than non-knowledge! --Thus we have heard from the wise Who have explained it to us. knowledge and non-knowledge-- He who this pair together knows, With non knowledge passing over death With knowledge wins the immortal. Ishopanishad One can safely conclude that without a first person perspective nothing can be conscious or live in this world (since otherwise who or what would it will appear to?), one could feign that there was no world, but One can not feign that 'I' did not exist. Thus to doubt that the first person perspective exists would itself be a conscious act structured around that person only. After all it is in the mind only this world and its on-going saga carries on. It is this ' I' only which lets us perceive the things how it wants to see them. Sometimes its beguiling mannerism can totally confuse or fog us, yet we believe and surrender to it and abide by it's wisdom . Yet we can safely say that conscious acts are simply the appearances, even if the conscious act itself is a part of some larger unconscious activity. Often what seems like a doubt to us, is in actuality not a doubt at all, but only the appearance of a doubt, or may be doubting in itself leads to the process of undoubting and knowing that doubt or object.Karl von Clusewitz once said: "I think, therefore I am" -Rene Descrates philosophical theory which we know as ' cognito' , often reminds me of a Hindu philosophy of ' अहं बृह्मास्मि '; I m the Universe, its creator , sustainer and destroyer.We can take as many interpretations as we like and create as much confusion as we like; but to my mind two interpretations are most logical and correct: One, that I sense the world only through my own senses ; hence if I 'm not there World is not there either. Secondly if I 'm ( human being) the only and true messenger of God or Brahma then along with human weaknesses I possess all his virtues and qualities too; that is to sustain, nurture and even to destroy it all also . Celebrating the power of such a nimble human mind and it's innumerable resources Lekhni's this issue has tried to peep into its conscious and unconscious workings...its unfathomable complexities. Even in this most complex task Lekhni hasn't forgotten the fact that sometimes it is better to surrender than fight with onself and the senses, like a writer once said, " I can see clearly now, the brain has gone." Even the intellectuals like Oscar wild agreed that; " You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know" Any way fog is thikening so let's delve in and enjoy! - Shail Agrawal | ||
Winter has arrived and once again departing year is all set to leave us with its parting gift of fog and bleak bare landscape. Here in England, dark, bleak and cold days often turn our thoughts inwardly . With falling leaves and dying flowers even nature starts to lament ...at least that is what it appears to a tired eye.Is it a treachery and betrayal of nature or only a fogged perception of a tired human eye; Isn't true we only see what we want to see ! 
