The words Reality, Thoughts
and Feelings are terms generally used very loosely to convey things that are abstract
and relative.
The abstractness and element of relativity about
reality, thoughts and feelings defy specific definitions for anyone of them.
Any single definition of what is reality, what is
thought and what is feeling will be defying logic and difficult because all these
three terms refer to phenomena that are
a bit complicated as they are all in certain ways independent, in certain ways
interdependent and in many ways inner dependent.
We make them more abstract by
adding constantly a huge carapace of fuzziness around them.
Certain philosophical
concepts and idealistic ideas are meant to be imparted to only those who have at
least the necessary intelligence to understand the appropriate meaning, even if
they cannot understand the exact one in proper perspective.
They are called abstract for
a reason.
I think the fact that they
are abstract is the most important thing we must keep in mind and mind about.
Though there is nothing wrong
in constantly trying to seek to know what they are or what is meant by the
terms through which certain abstract phenomena are articulated verbally, here I
mean things like Reality, Sprit, thoughts etc
They are not meant for those
incapable of handling them.
I do not want to say
uninitiated or less intelligent because then I would be courting controversy.
It is like giving a knife to
a child.
Whatever the child does with
it you cannot blame the child.
This has been the problem
even with some of the highly scholarly and academically well equipped people as
they lack the necessary perspective to evaluate things and ideas and get
educated with appropriate contextual relevance.
This has been the problem
with many myths, epics, history and scriptures.
We mutilate them in multiple
ways like for example over exaggeration; excessive adoration or condemnation;
extreme unwarranted devotion or irrelevant criticism; excitement in ideologically
appropriating greatness; trying hard to
convince that something has universal application and can act as a panacea;
ethnocentric pride in claiming that we knew something much earlier than the
rest; portraying many things with our limited petrified prejudices, putrefied
perceptions and puerile pomposity and so on.
All these collating to suit
our justification or our stand on something may lead to collusions and
ultimately mask everything with massive misinterpretations.
Worst part is all these is they prevent many us from making
an unbiased or unconditioned observation of anything as it is or grasping any
phenomenon as it is or seeing and accepting anything actually as it is.
This is how we render them
more abstract.
Under such category of things
come these: - Reality, Thinking and Feeling.
Thinking or thoughts and
feeling or feelings [emotions] are important components of social human beings.
It would be really dangerous
to encounter a society where human beings act without feelings and/or thoughtlessly.
The very same thinking or
thought and feeling or feelings [emotions] may hamper our progress into or in
higher realms of life and living.
But no human being can
achieve a higher state of consciousness without going through the processes of
thinking and feeling.
It is like expecting someone
to write great novel without learning alphabets or words.
These are necessary steps
i.e. thoughts and feelings but they need not necessarily be the stops.
Not only reality but all
thoughts and feelings are also relative.
No one say with axiomatic
certitude that something as the only or ultimate reality or best reality
because reality itself is what is perceived to be so.
So, it is even risky to
venture into come out with any particular definition and therefore most people
mostly catch on to some readymade definitions available out there.
Fundamentally Reality is reality with all its multiple facets
and faces; dimensions and dynamics; polarities and probabilities; positives and
negatives; victors and victims and so on.
But reporting of reality is confined to or constricted by
perspectives, frames of reference of limited perceptions, populist projections,
perverted and preconceived portrayals based on identity affiliation of
religion, region, language, ideologies etc.
Thinking and thoughts: - http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/10/thinking-or-thought.html
Seeking and searching for meaning of life with all our
senses, sanity, with a scientific spirit and trying to understand
spirituality- to find if it exists- along with a sense of humane social
consciousness renders seeking a sweet sojourn.
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