Books,learning and humility

Evolution of civilization as well as sophistication of civilized evolution both depend on adaptation, adjustments, accommodation and assimilation of multiple ways of life and valuing the variety and virtue of variety passed onto us down the ages through various mediums, the first most effective and, perhaps the chief among them being books which recorded the sounds, spoken words, thoughts, ideas and events. Both our individual self and social self are to a large extent shaped by how we relate with others, things and our overall circumstances and how our contexts relate with us. 

Life is after all not mere chronology of existence but a meaningful topology of relationships. 

Life is not confined to and carried on within the matrix of mind and matter but it creatively works through communicating the connectivity between these two and how these two relate with everyone and everything.

Actually more number of people read more topics on various platforms starting from print media like newspapers, pamphlets, text books, books of various genres to heavy reading through electronic media in the form of mails, social media messages, E-books etc.

But then, what has to be known really is

What they read?

Why they read?

How they read?

How they use or benefit from what they read?

 How much they read?

The answer to the above questions will provide information that may enable us to knowabout the interests and intentions; to understand the influence and impact; to grasp the intrinsic importance; to interpret  the importance of intrinsic values; to entertainwith imaginations; to indoctrinate through injecting sensational ideas and sensitive and biased judgmental opinions ; gradually to educate everyone to evaluate [with contextual relevance] the utility or futility of all that is being read; to discern  to observe  intelligently; to achieve academic excellence ; to learn  to internalize great ideas and instructions; to expand the  spectrum of our conscious awareness wider  to perceive with philosophical perspective; to peruse everything with proper measurements and finally to enlighten us to engage in creating in a scholarly, scientific and saneway with a sense of responsibility and sense of balance the sources of synergy through creative and effective communication.

Certain terms have been underlined and rendered in bold letters [almost as a wordle] because they are in fact the preferred and prioritized outcomes of most readings and book centric learning.

We all must humbly accept that we learnt some or all of the above underlined aspects; or still in the process of learning or perfecting or enhancing the quality and quantity of what we have already learnt.

It was mostly through our reading them in books or listening to and learning from those who have read and passed them on. Learning is a lifelong process.

So, as Dani Johnson says, “Never stop being teachable. If you think you know everything, you will never learn anything.”

Inquisitiveness and inquiry are the eternal springs of human psyche and it is through this stream that flows from the springs that traces of ignorance are washed away

Writer is also one humble, curious and unbiased observer of synergy and synthesis, either occurring as an aspect of evolution or consciously effected through a culture of compassion, that enable to understand better the inter connectivity, interrrelatedness and interdependence of living as a whole.

Life is an unmapped atlas consisting of unexplored territories and a jig saw puzzle where we are not even sure whether all pieces are available in the box and what shape to create.

Reality and the real reasons of life or living are not uniform or predefined and hence, are not that easy to grasp because besides what has been stated above life is involved in the constant process of churning called living which is dynamic in the cauldron of social life [ the multiple shapes , size and  material of which this cauldron is made of is also not fully known].

Add to these what is the kirn- staff or churning stick [that is evaluation tool used to churn] is also not known.

So, 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. We try to grasp it, give it various names depending on how we perceive and relate based on our attitudes and perspectives.

After all life is a constant process of learning and adjustment wherein we can neither deny nor defy the importance of anything or anyone.

Evolution goes about its jobs unmindful of whatever we do or do not do, that decides and determines everything including our birth and death as biochemical organisms which are bound to decay or to die or to reorganize or to be reborn or to recreate into something else eventually.

While innards and inherent qualities are inevitable and beyond our choice, at least, our utilization of strengths /reactions to shortcomings can be sane and more sensible in short our MINDSET, and that is what must be the attempt of any subject be it philosophy, spiritual science or pure science.

Evolution has ensured that human beings as a species have moved from kuru disease contacting cannibals to cyber gurus.

So, it becomes obvious that we cannot analyze anything through any templates of ideological fixations or subject it to satisfy socio- political or socio-cultural or religious justifications.

We must also know that everything has its own inherent attributes, intrinsic values, internal mechanism and logic for its existence besides, beyond, exclusive of and unmindful of human intellectual justifications, acceptance, acknowledgement, social or religious approvals, political support  and therefore , it is purely absurd to extrapolate anything with specific ideological fixations.