What is real and what is reality? It is not that easy to
define with axiomatic certitude what it is? Here are some materials which I
have written as well as come across which can throw enough light on the subject
and churn out more clarity.
Very interesting and thought provoking interview which
touches upon very important but sensitive topics which have made human beings
into two extremes one ennobling them the other enfeebling them manifesting the
extent and extreme capabilities of human sensibilities and sharp sensitivities
as well as stark stupidities. I like the typical Dawkins' precise and perfect
vocabulary and Oksana Boyko's brilliant and blunt questions.
I would like to share some voluminous things here on War,
Morality and Realization of Reality which is what the religions and sciences
compete to reveal or rationally explain or oft times especially religion tries
to vindicate.
2] MORALITY
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101199648/Morality-is-Just-Contextual
3] New Year with a New Realization of Reality
The interview here in this link
The Ashtavakra Gita the great link between philosophy,
metaphysics and physics. I hope you remember the story of Ashtavakra that we
used to read in amar chitra katha as a great scholar cursed by his own father
for questioning certain established philosophical and religious dogmas and also
giving a very convining explanation. I have always held this Gita as the most abstract
metaphysical and philosophical text as well as the most advanced prompt for
later day scientific research in physics.
Here is an excellent but brief explanation of just one of
his sloka
Severing All Illusions By: DHRUVA BHARGAVA on Oct 04, 2014
What we see separates us from Supreme reality, says DHRUVA
BHARGAVA
When the formless, undivided, infinite oneness, Self, the
pure ‘knowing’ gets embodied, it becomes finite — the perceived. With
perception arises the appearance of reality and with that, our experiences. However,
the appearance of reality is not reality itself but merely an appearance caused
by our perception of it. The reality remains beyond our percept and knowing.
The entire appearance of our perception is composed of diverse emergent qualities
that are illusory; therefore, any appearance too,is illusory. This does not
mean that existence is illusory; it means, we experience the appearance of
reality only in terms of qualities produced within us by the act of perception
and not by reality itself.
The Ashtavakra Gita (2.9) clearly states:“The mirage of
universe appears in me/ As silver appears in mother-of-pearl/ As snake appears
in a rope/ As water appears on a desert horizon.” However, the problem ensues
when the illusory appearance is mistaken for reality itself. The emergent
qualities of varied colours and sounds, temperature ranges, hardness, size and
volume that compose the appearance of reality, are otherwise absent in reality.
The consequential confusion of mistaking their appearance for reality itself is
a delusion that misleads the perceiver into an illusory state from where his
subsequent actions and attachments emanate. This confusion and delusion is the
root cause of all misery and sufferings. The Ashtavakra Gita (2.16)
elaborates,“ Looking at One and seeing many/ Is the cause of all misery. The
only cure is to realise/ What is seen is not there./ I am One — aware,
blissful, immaculate.” There are only two modes of perception — sensory and
cognitive.
In sensory perception, inputs received through scanning of
the physical environment by our senses are presented to our consciousness.
These sensory inputs are polarized around a point of perception, such as
heat-cold, light-darkness, hard soft or rough-smooth. This point of perception
lies on a wide range, relative to the perceiver, to which his physical body
adapts. Thus, a human being as perceiver, may find 30-degree centigrade
temperature tolerable, but an organism living in a deep sea region near an
underwater volcano, where temperature ranges between 100-200 degrees, may find
30 degree centigrade intolerable. In cognitive perception, inputs received from
mental concepts — that of imagination, thinking, and memories are presented to
consciousness in a dualistic way, such as like-dislike and favourable-unfavourable.
In cognitive perception, the mind itself provides inputs for
perception which are rebounded within. This rebounding of inputs has no limits
as they are not grounded in the physical environment like sensory inputs. In
the realm of cognitive perception, one can, therefore, limitlessly think, imagine,
fantasize and conceptualize. Thus, cognitive percept can be infinitely
reproduced and built over and over again as the uninterrupted source of inputs
lies within.
This creates an entangling cognitive loop due to rebounding
of inner inputs and percept. In fact, perception ‘dualises’ the otherwise
Oneness-Self into Self and the other. Our self concept, the self as we see
ourselves, is a ‘dualised’ separate self and a product of cognitive perception.
It always perceives itself as separate from the other. It’s built on our
memories, imaginations, fantasies, thinking, and feelings, but appears real.
All misery and suffering ensue when we own and accept this separate illusory
self-concept as real. Once this illusory self is accepted and identified with,
all its associated illusory suffering and misery that follow appear real too.
link to above article is here
and surprisingly today this appeared along with another
latest development and discussion in the world of physics
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