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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Clear the Smoke!

I don't think this world exists. I exist, but then the Pranav my mother knows is different from the Pranav I know, the Pranav you know, the Pranav one of my friends knows, and the Pranav another friend knows. So there are about a hundred Pranavs and only one real one-the one I know. But it cannot be so with the world because it has no universal soul. Or may be it does, but not on an earthly level. Therefore everyone "knows" something different from everyone else, even about the same thing. Therefore reality does not exist. Most animals see trees to be grey or black or white in colour. We think they are green. So the truth is that "colour" does not exist, and neither does the tree. But when the world ruled by humankind ceases to exist, we have a problem.
Senseless? Made no f*****g logic? But it does.
Firstly though, we need to differentiate between good illusion and bad illusion. Good illusion is the apparent difference in things due to the difference in naturally bestowed qualities. Animals are colour-blind, humans are not. This cannot be a cause for indignation. It is a fact. But bad illusions arise when humans create something, and destroy it themselves a million times over.
Let me explain with a potentially outrageous example. Did the Holocaust really happen? Methinks it did. Iran doesn't. The USA and Western Europe think 6 million Jews were murdered. Lets not forget that the USA and Great Britain won World War II and rewrote history. Methinks the figure was closer to 2 or 3 million-an educated guess-the golden mean always takes us closer to the truth.
Now we cannot ask Hitler, or Goebbels, or Himmler, for they are all dead and gone. And if they were to be alive, what was the guarantee they'd tell the truth? So the truth will never be out.
Similarly, everything before us is a cloud of thick smoke. No one knows the truth about virtually anything. Did Mahatma Gandhi actually say "Hey Ram" while dying? Was Shakespeare a plaigarist? What is the real aim of the BJP? Who actually runs the media in India? Does the Illuminati exist? Who really wielded influence while naming the street across my society?
In other words, in the huge mass of information, and the fact that humans create and destroy knowledge for their own selfish motives, results in a haze of smoke over our eyes. No wonder then, that the world is an illusion- in short, no one really knows who they are, what they are, why they are what they are, or who someone else is and what is their motive. Period.