Why we need to peep beyond and behind words and go beyond
religious references?
Can we avoid
using mental phoropter to get a clearer view?
The speech that
you have referred seems to be great from how you have portrayed.
When broaching
on certain subjects it is preferable to start with the conclusion.
For example the
words love, belief, faith, hope, grace, happiness and so on mean various things
depending on how an individual feels and relates with those terms.
The uniqueness
of these words is that they break all barriers of literal, figurative meanings,
connotation, denotation etc and are not amenable to any categorization.
The best part
is these terms cannot be generalized either.
But the beauty
is these words refer to a reality that exists awaiting to be grasped and
adopted.
When it comes
to certain words it is not so much about the mere articulation of ideas that
they refer to normally but the necessity to imbibe and impregnate our life with
what they really mean.
The reason
being some words are immensely impregnated with heartfelt meaning and a
personally related realization which may manifest in multiple ways and
therefore the manifestations may differ drastically too.
I have found
out when someone utters these Sanskrit words 'Dharma' or ' Karma' immediately
people start looking for mental phoropter to get a clearer view by trying multiple
filters, lenses, adjustments like some of the following:-it must be something
tough for me to understand, it refers probably to some very abstract concept or
too complicated a philosophy or it pertains perhaps to something with regard to
Hindu religion and so on.
Finally, they
flip through them with a mere cursory attention and move on to something that
they can relate to more easily or comfortable with.
Therefore, it
becomes imperative that these concepts are conveyed in the idiom that most
youngsters would understand so that they may attempt to assimilate them as part
of their life style and impregnate their attitudes, perspectives, thoughts and
ideas with them.
In fact the
whole of Bhagawad Gita, one of the reasons why it became more popular among the
28 Gitas, is that all its 700 stanzas are sand- witched between two words the
starting word 'Dharma' and the last word ‘Mama’.
It must be
actually read as ‘Mama Dharma’= my dharma- does not mean either Krishna’s or
Arjuna’s Dharma, rather when everyone reads it becomes ‘his Dhrama’ and all
these 700 verses [ subjected to all sorts of excellent, enlightening as well
as, often used as tool to justifying traditional practices, explanations by
many] primarily are about attitudes to be adopted, actions to be executed and
reactions to show at different situations taking into consideration the overall
welfare of all [humanism].
This manual is
more about balancing the intellect and emotions and most importantly through
both emotions and intellect, or to be precise in short it talks about the
dynamics of synthesis of human nature and nature of Truth [define as you may-
it is the inevitable and intellectual perception and sometimes all logic
eluding factor], it offers an excellent mix of rational philosophy with
empirical necessity.
Life is all
about movements, actions and reactions which broadly could be defined as i.e.
Karma but then the Laws [Dharma] of motions [Karma] of life are very important
and therefore prioritized.
When the real values are impregnated in to our system they
show up
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