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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Babel and Gandhi
The man craves for everything..
and he rationalises his mind to think that everything he wants belongs to him...
he has various names for it .. and we can see this desire in the various articles that light up our press prints .. racism, sexism, regionalism, nationalism, caste system, religion, language discrimination and even patriotism..
And even our leaders or who people say are considered our leaders.. the founders of this nation (nationalism ??) .. were affected from this great bias ..
One prime example of Gandhi... remember the swadesi movement.. in which he urged the public to burn all the foreign elements or articles they had .. ( Guru Tagore did not participate in this movement)
They all forget that before the right of nation or any other society on those articles .. they all belonged to mankind .. a mankind that is not under the shadow of the tower of babel..
By fighting over petty things like Gandhi's possessions.. and haggling over this .. we just show that how deeply we suffer from this disease .. the one they have named as patriotism or natinalism ...
I have still not understood .. how is this nationalism different from caste, religion or racial discrimination ... in essence it is just the same.. just one more storey of tower of babel in our minds
and he rationalises his mind to think that everything he wants belongs to him...
he has various names for it .. and we can see this desire in the various articles that light up our press prints .. racism, sexism, regionalism, nationalism, caste system, religion, language discrimination and even patriotism..
And even our leaders or who people say are considered our leaders.. the founders of this nation (nationalism ??) .. were affected from this great bias ..
One prime example of Gandhi... remember the swadesi movement.. in which he urged the public to burn all the foreign elements or articles they had .. ( Guru Tagore did not participate in this movement)
They all forget that before the right of nation or any other society on those articles .. they all belonged to mankind .. a mankind that is not under the shadow of the tower of babel..
By fighting over petty things like Gandhi's possessions.. and haggling over this .. we just show that how deeply we suffer from this disease .. the one they have named as patriotism or natinalism ...
I have still not understood .. how is this nationalism different from caste, religion or racial discrimination ... in essence it is just the same.. just one more storey of tower of babel in our minds
But it Rained
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Sound of a Feeling - by Mommeeeeee
The five senses of the human body enable it to recognize its surroundings. It develops a familiarization using them. It could be a sound, a scene, and so on. This capacity of sensing is something that we have right from birth. Over the period of the entire life time, we develop reactions to what we sense. These reactions may or may not change. And these reactions could be in the form of an external physical action or else, and internal thought, or in other cases a feeling.
It is over a period of time that a little child learns sounds. There’s a particular understanding of each word or audio that s/he hears. S/He learns words and meanings, and expression comes of them.
It is perhaps simple, at least, to a fairly good extent, to develop the understanding of words, sounds, visuals etc. In fact the sense organs often are reflexive. But there’s a different realization or sensing ability that can’t be defined in similar way.
I see, I hear, I smell, I taste and I touch. But what about what I Feel? Feelings are what give us another kind of sensitivity, or sensing capability. But this is very special. Its evolution and response, both, are complex. And, is also subjective to an individual.
Even so, our description of sensing abilities is generally confined to hearing or seeing or touching etc. So how would we be capable of sensing a feeling? Can we see it? Touch it? Or may be hear it? Or do we just feel a feeling?
We can certainly feel a feeling, but besides this, intuitively, I think, we can hear it too. If that be so, what would it sound like? What is the sound of a feeling? Something intrigued me about this feeling of sound, I mean the feeling of feeling the sound of a feeling.
I see a conglomerate of colours on a canvas, and I realize it is a painting, and I know it is music; I taste sugar and I know it is sweet. But how do I hear a feeling? What is my association with it that helps me hear it? When there is rain falling over trees, and wind moving the leaves; water drops fall from the tip of one leaf to another, and the fragile branches swirl in the wind; how do I take it? Is it just a sound? Perhaps not just that; it in fact defines a picture, a sound, and some association with someone or some instance, i.e. a memory. And there originates a feeling.
You hear a feeling, in your mind. But for hearing a feeling your mind should be capable of recognizing it. The difference between feeling a feeling and hearing a feeling is the ability of associating one’s past experience with the feeling. I know how it feels to miss home when I haven’t been there for a long time. But is would be an extreme example, because this could happen often. The mind may recognize the sounds of feelings that my not be felt as frequently, they would be like experiencing a déjà vu. Like looking at someone you have probably seen before, and you see again, it an almost similar situation, and immediately there comes a faint picture of such an experience you had earlier.
The difference between the sound of a feeling and any other sense is very distinct. First, you have the advantage of hearing the sound of the feeling privately. No one else can sense it the way you do. Second, you can’t use your ears for the sound of a feeling, the mind or the heart hears it. And third, it is easier to recognize a sound that you could hear from ears, but the sound of a feeling requires your memory, mind and heart. It is more complex. You re-live the situation in the memory everytime that you hear that feeling.
The feeling of being hugged by loved ones, the feeling of meeting an old friend, the feeling of helping a needy, the feeling of being betrayed by someone, the feeling of missing someone desperately; you feel more intensely when you hear them. The sound of these feelings hence, is, the syllable created by memory, recognized by the heart and internalized by the mind.
So can a feeling ever cause a sound? The answer to this, probably, is yes. The first time ever that you feel a feeling and then, if ever, you feel it again, there gets registered a syllable of that feeling in your brain. Over a period of time if that feeling is triggered over and over again, the memory can distinctly create the appropriate syllable as the mind understands it, and hence there would be a sound created of that feeling. The cause of the sound is the feeling, because the it was internalized after one experiences the feeling.
Could the experience or sense of a feeling be a sound? Absolutely, (provided you are not new to that feeling), the memory would instantly create the sound, and you would hear it!
It is over a period of time that a little child learns sounds. There’s a particular understanding of each word or audio that s/he hears. S/He learns words and meanings, and expression comes of them.
It is perhaps simple, at least, to a fairly good extent, to develop the understanding of words, sounds, visuals etc. In fact the sense organs often are reflexive. But there’s a different realization or sensing ability that can’t be defined in similar way.
I see, I hear, I smell, I taste and I touch. But what about what I Feel? Feelings are what give us another kind of sensitivity, or sensing capability. But this is very special. Its evolution and response, both, are complex. And, is also subjective to an individual.
Even so, our description of sensing abilities is generally confined to hearing or seeing or touching etc. So how would we be capable of sensing a feeling? Can we see it? Touch it? Or may be hear it? Or do we just feel a feeling?
We can certainly feel a feeling, but besides this, intuitively, I think, we can hear it too. If that be so, what would it sound like? What is the sound of a feeling? Something intrigued me about this feeling of sound, I mean the feeling of feeling the sound of a feeling.
I see a conglomerate of colours on a canvas, and I realize it is a painting, and I know it is music; I taste sugar and I know it is sweet. But how do I hear a feeling? What is my association with it that helps me hear it? When there is rain falling over trees, and wind moving the leaves; water drops fall from the tip of one leaf to another, and the fragile branches swirl in the wind; how do I take it? Is it just a sound? Perhaps not just that; it in fact defines a picture, a sound, and some association with someone or some instance, i.e. a memory. And there originates a feeling.
You hear a feeling, in your mind. But for hearing a feeling your mind should be capable of recognizing it. The difference between feeling a feeling and hearing a feeling is the ability of associating one’s past experience with the feeling. I know how it feels to miss home when I haven’t been there for a long time. But is would be an extreme example, because this could happen often. The mind may recognize the sounds of feelings that my not be felt as frequently, they would be like experiencing a déjà vu. Like looking at someone you have probably seen before, and you see again, it an almost similar situation, and immediately there comes a faint picture of such an experience you had earlier.
The difference between the sound of a feeling and any other sense is very distinct. First, you have the advantage of hearing the sound of the feeling privately. No one else can sense it the way you do. Second, you can’t use your ears for the sound of a feeling, the mind or the heart hears it. And third, it is easier to recognize a sound that you could hear from ears, but the sound of a feeling requires your memory, mind and heart. It is more complex. You re-live the situation in the memory everytime that you hear that feeling.
The feeling of being hugged by loved ones, the feeling of meeting an old friend, the feeling of helping a needy, the feeling of being betrayed by someone, the feeling of missing someone desperately; you feel more intensely when you hear them. The sound of these feelings hence, is, the syllable created by memory, recognized by the heart and internalized by the mind.
So can a feeling ever cause a sound? The answer to this, probably, is yes. The first time ever that you feel a feeling and then, if ever, you feel it again, there gets registered a syllable of that feeling in your brain. Over a period of time if that feeling is triggered over and over again, the memory can distinctly create the appropriate syllable as the mind understands it, and hence there would be a sound created of that feeling. The cause of the sound is the feeling, because the it was internalized after one experiences the feeling.
Could the experience or sense of a feeling be a sound? Absolutely, (provided you are not new to that feeling), the memory would instantly create the sound, and you would hear it!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Reliance !!
No.. I m not going to talk about the big conglomerate; nor I m going to say anythin about the greatness of the family. Or anything of tht sort.
I will jus saying a few words about “Reliance” on each other.
Can we live without relying on each other … a good idea in a devils mind.. but not in practice. Let’s go deeper.
Can we live without relying on each other.. not for materialistic things or chores .. or work ..but for support?
Don’t know about you guys. But I can not. I will not go into why? Probably.. no. not probably.
Definitely, your mind can find out better reasons then mind. I also won’t go into the benefits and the need of it. But, I have doubts. So, here goes..
Who all should you rely upon?
When this reliance does become over reliance?
Is this reliance parasitic in nature?
Why do we make rosy pictures of people we interact with (generally) and are nonchalant about others?
Is over reliance on some one harmful?
How do you rely on people who you know will not be there, down the line?
And finally .. why is everything so tough .. so subjective …why isn’t this world simpler? It always seems a comedy of errors to me and I m the biggest comedian.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Of Fudge, Vanilla and Chocolate Sauce
Some more philosophy
We all try making this world a better a place for our eyes and our eyes only, not thinking about iris and pupils of some other eyes. But every eye is wild for the delicacy.
We all compete for the our share of the ‘Vanilla and Chocolate fudge, with hot chocolate sauce’, but many of us only get a whiff of it, either our speeds are slow or we are pushed back by others.
What fun it would have been if the reality had been virtual, and we all had a ‘Secondlife’. But it is not like that. Talk about Secondlife, some of us don’t even get a second chance in the reality we know.
Its all about ‘Carpe Diem’ [Seize the day], in the words of a great ‘dead poet’, Keatings [RobinWilliams].
But the day is finite, and if everyone seized their part of the ‘day’, then it does not make you special, because every one has same amount of ‘day’. It would have been correct if the String Theories 11 dimensions would have been visible to us.
But alas!! We have only four dimensions and we have to live with them.
So let the gongs sound, lets bring the cake and make a run for it. !!
Monday, July 7, 2008
16th Letter of Alphabet
Perennially Perplexed, Problemed, Paranoia
Plethora of Plagiarism, Proxies and Pseudo
Perpetual Pandemonium
Pangs and
Pursuit of Panacea among Plethora of Paramecium
Peculiar pedagogies
:P
Phony Pals,
Perennial pangs of pandemonium inside my peabrain causing perpetual paralysis but still in pursuit of panacea .. still playful and trying to be a Pungent of Perfume of Playfulness
Perplexed
At the behaviors…at the rumblings and the confusing nightmares one faces while being awake…
Ecstasy of a hole in one .. PUTT
Pangas with Powerful People
Pragmatism
Pursuit of being perennially Playful amidst Peculiarities
Being able to shine as a Polished Plate
Preaching Phosphoresce
And still being Penalized for Pulling Pigtails
Preambles and Prefaces
Prognosis of Prospects … Predictions and Projection ..Plans.. Procedures and Proceedings.. Protocols
Pain.. Procrastination
Desiderata
This is the story of our lives described as P.
Which has to be taken with a Pinch of Pepper
People.. Paupers and Princes and Princess in their Primes
Prodigal and Profligate
Pulling and Pushing ..huffing and Puffing.. Profusing
Performing in Pools .. Pounding on the Panes ..Powerless ..Projecting themselves as Poodles among PowerPuffs
Promoting Propaganda of Plague
Prologue of Predators Planning, strategizing
Need they come out of cars and say Bye
Perennially Perplexing the Pawns like me
But the Pursuit of Parangatness prevails
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