Karta: Life-Inspiring Essays On Cognition, Consciousness & Causality by Santosh Jha (book suggestions txt) 📕

Actually, the ‘cognitive-self’ becomes so insecure that it tends to fall back to the ‘safety’ of its behavioral benchmarks…. saying, “…. I am like that…. since childhood I have been like that…. whatever I am, I am good for myself..!”

Can’t blame anybody…. actually…. there is a truth in it …. since childhood, we are trained to accept ‘cognitive-conveniences’…. and reject ‘incognitive-inconveniences’…. acceptance is such a beautifully satisfying incognitive…. ain’t it…?

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Genius, A Pop-Stupidity!

Inquisitiveness is such a beautiful thing… though, since childhood, the popular culture, etiquettes and larger preference for discipline over creative wastefulness and stupidities are out there to stifle major part of the inquisitive aspirations… too bad…!

If necessity is the mother of all inventions, let there be a father too and let us accept innate instinct of inquisitiveness as the worthy father…!

At any point of time, it is the content and structure of contemporary inquisitiveness that provides the energy for an evolving worldview and world order. Personalities are no exceptions… what a person would evolve to be and what the world would turn out to be in near or less distant future are largely the function of the contemporary inquisitiveness… and… bitter the taste of inquisitiveness, sweeter are the chances of fruition in future….

So, the America is inquisitive… “will the capitalistic structure survive…?”… India is inquisitive, “shall this golden phase continue…?”…. inquisitiveness doesn’t end here… so, science is inquisitive, “… is there life outside earth…?”

All stupidities, all absurdities, all non-conformism must be part of the larger energy of cosmic inquisitiveness…. genius is, often, the younger twin of stupidity… genius can rarely be customized… it naturally evolves out of stupidity… usually, genius is ‘pop-stupidity’….

Let inquisitive energy be unleashed in complete madness and stupidity… life, they say is some absurd tale of a stupid…. let the story be herd and appreciated….

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Dictatorship Of Holism

How easy it sounds to be true… for, we all have the mind training to accept goodness as something very complex and beyond our endeavors… that’s why, we all pray our respective Gods to guide us to be good. The fact remains, goodness is just a seed word and very much singular, well within the easy reach of our simple endeavor….

As this seed manifests itself in a complex structure of a giant tree with innumerous branches and uncountable leaves and fruits, we all are led to believe, goodness is very complicated…. it is never…. it is just a seed….

Plant the seed in your mind and let it grow within your immortal being…. then; enjoy the diversity of goodness and be your own God. All rational minds have told us since ages, God is within us…. those attempting to find it outside are doing the mistake of uprooting a giant oak tree from the jungle and planting it in their house garden…. like seed, goodness grows within, cannot be transplanted…. even if it happens, it would not survive long….

The seed of goodness is ‘accommodation’…. acceptance of ‘I’ with compassionate accommodation towards ‘We’, ‘He’ and ‘They’. No doubt, one is designed to believe in ‘I’ as the center of the universe. But then, the ‘I’ needs to be compassionate and affectionate towards the existence of ‘others’ in the periphery. This is what rational minds have called ‘holism’…. the liberty of periphery to be equitably (if not equally) as important as the center and the duty of center to accommodate periphery in the liberty to be what it is… this holism is the only divinity… a singularity of situationalism…. Gods may be in plurality….

Most rational minds have warned humanity of the ‘dictatorship’ of singularity of elements other than the abovementioned divinity. The dictatorship of all sorts, especially the dictatorship of ignorance…. dictatorship of parts; that of either the center or the periphery is anathema as kills the goodness. Only the dictatorship of holism is allowed…. this dictatorship of compassion, accommodation, acceptance is welcome…. divinity alone can be a dictator…..

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The Dictator Within Us

A great name from French cinema said, “… cinema and other media must be used dexterously and stoutly to end all forms of dictatorship, especially the dictatorship of ignorance…”.

What a beautiful desire…! Can’t imagine, anyone on this planet having any second thoughts about such an eventuality…. but, almost everyone would ask, “how”?

Since the inception of human civilization, the dictatorship of ignorance has devastated humanity and has only spread in intensity and coverage… despite all forms of media growing powerful and almost all encompassing in recent years….

If one asks, “what is root ignorance”… so that we could find a counter to it, it becomes almost impossible… simply because, no one ever accepts, he or she is ignorant and always thinks others as the one….

Essentially… the dictator is well within every individual and to stop that dictator to rule us, every individual needs a lot of defensive and offensive elements within…. and they are so very difficult to acquire in a life time…

They are, determination, patience, courage, discipline, mastery, intensity, power, organization, integration, and synthesis etc…. they are the tools to create a ‘Will’ that stops the dictator within….

Still, even after almost 5000 years of civilization, despite all the growth in technology and resources, 95% of humanity is struggling to survive…. and it is this battle for survival and security for self-preservation that allows a free-hand to the dictatorship of ignorance…

And the media, itself beset with its own inflated survival and sustenance issues, is never into its cherished role of a catalyst in a decisive and definitive war against dictatorship of ignorance… rather, in most cases, it is hand-in-glove with the dictator itself…!

But then, hope is always struggling to wage a lonely battle and it shall forever….

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Let Them Be With Their Business

It is indeed sad, often tragic and chaotic that humanity in the contemporary world is destined to live in an intellectual universe where questions of billions of mind are being answered by a bunch of leadership who themselves do not have access to answers and are themselves a confused lot….

The questions have always been there… who are we, why are we, what is life for, the aim, the purpose, the righteousness and the exalted path, etc… the answers fall either in the realm of religion, philosophy or science. And all these realms are unable to come to a singularity of universal wisdom… though claiming to have right answers and also, claiming, only they know the answers…. sad… tragic…!

In reality, all the religions of the world are archaic, rooted in the timeliness of the knowledge that holds no truth today, given the realisms in the field of knowledge that humanity has today… the religions are thousands of years old when the set of knowledge that created them are today nothing but poor fiction….

The philosophy and even science are evolving; they are more authoritative and well-placed when they deny that what religions say and what traditional morality based on spiritualism entails are all wrong and unfounded… but, they are asked as to what is the right answer, they come up with another set of still evolving answers and half-baked truths. The more rational of the scientists however are ready to admit that science may have some answers but human mind is still not evolved enough to have all right answers.

The good thing however, with all aware and rational minds is that in all fields of human knowledge, be in science, philosophy and religion, which usually provide answers to human inquisitiveness, those who really are intellectuals, do admit that there is nothing called ultimate in human knowledge and wisdom (answers) are always an evolving entity. They also admit the answers are in holism of all wings of human knowledge, never in parts….

But tragically, such people are in very poor minority and their voices of rationalism also remain minority voices and as usual, the media of the day are always interested in stifling this minority voice and play puppets in the hands of those majority, who foolishly but stylishly and ingenuously claim, they have the answers and only their answers are right ones.

So, what is the golden prescription for common man… it is very simple… use this evolving knowledge as a weapon to make best out of it…. god is or not… there is life after death or not, life’s purpose is in material well-being or not… etc, etc. Don’t be involved in this debate… use whatever way it suits you and still allow others to have their own ideas. If you feel god is… good enough… remain happy. But, never be antagonistic and retributive to those who say god ain’t… just admit and be compassionate to all ideas and all sorts of dualism and opinions.

Choose what suits you and live a life that is happy, fulfilling and meaningful… simultaneously, being kind and accommodative to others who have ideas and actions other than what you choose… believe and practice the holism of wisdom… and truly be compassionate towards all ideas and actions, till it conforms to the golden principle of non-violence of highest order….

Life in itself is the biggest answer of all things…. other questions and answers may evolve… but when you have got your life, you have to be happy, modest and thankful that you have got what is a huge “opportunity”. Go ahead, explore the opportunity and while doing that, just be compassionate to others as, others have equal right to explore their “opportunities”…. god is or not… life after death is or not… soul is or not …. other questions shall have their answers and these answers will always evolve…

Accept and use this relativity with true objectivity and make it a cardinal idea that life is an opportunity and it will be explored to its best only when we all practice ‘love and compassion’ to ourselves and to all things living or non-living…. this shall never change, rest is for evolution….

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Ignorance = Loss of Innocence

A great many people had one single regret and pain in life and that one could understand, is the true side-effects of being a great. The pain must follow you… just because, being a great means you have understood what ignorance is and as it happens, you immediately start to regret and feel sorry about a huge chunk of humanity suffering and making others suffer because of their ignorance and intrinsically associated pride about being truly knowledgeable.

To a beginner, it always seems a humungous task and challenge to acquire wisdom and get rid of the universal human disease; called ignorance. To him, the world, the universe seems so immense and knowledge scattered all around like sand on a sea beach. He or she is so gripped by the sense of the immensity of the task.

Also, his or her peer groups and seniors make sure his or her sense of the task being an impossible one by constantly booing at whatever little knowledge he or she seems to acquire after much efforts…. sadistic pleasures are so great….

The reality is just the reverse of it… ignorance is easy to drive away and wisdom is very simple and singular… and so within our reach…. wisdom is in innocence, it is in compassion…. sample it.

Ignorance is the loss of innocence…. and in the pride that ‘I know’ and know it right… the difference between ignorance and wisdom is two words called ‘only’ and ‘also’….

An ignorant would say, “I know what is truth or, what I know is the only truth”. A wise man would say, “I think I also know something about truth or, what I know may also have some truth in it”.

A wise man once said, an ignorant is always very sure about what he says he knows and a wise would never be sure of what he knows… ignorance is in saying ‘I only’ whereas wisdom is in saying, ‘I also’….

Innocence would always wish to understand and accept the other aspects of a truth as it has faith in not the parts but in