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.
