Whether it is being
in echo chamber or being
alert like a Gecko without ever blinking. A.K. Bhattacharya has well expressed simple fact and inevitable truth below in
the book review but what intervention that anyone seeks is determined
again by many factors like culture, divinely predetermined disposition of the
inner self otherwise called natural attribute, indoctrinated or carefully nurtured
attitudes of reactions and all these leading to ensuing actions.
For example imagine
the plight of all non Shias in Iraq in the past two months, whatever has been
happening is defying all logic, rationality etc and even the option or luxury
of sanely choosing any intervention is not available. So very often the intensity
of the crisis and inevitability of circumstances determine our recognizing,
resorting to and respecting intervention along with again the
unwillingness of human beings to be humble enough to accept that there are
plenty of things that happen / can happen which are beyond the ken of
human intellect, knowledge, understanding, logic, science, and all other known
resources that we are used to and are comfortable employing to counter
difficulties.
All human beings may
be unwilling to be humble but resort to all sorts of remedies in times of
extreme crisis which are either belief based, ethnocentric culture oriented,
traditionally tested and tried, faith oriented etc sometimes much against their
long held convictions too because survival counts above everything else for all
human beings except those with suicidal tendencies.
Life mostly is lived
and perceived in the Time and Space
conundrum but happens beyond these two. That's why sometimes when things happen
in a jiffy when the human mind is not even given options of dealing with it in
Time and Space, physical lives just end as it happened recently to the
Malaysian aircraft passengers or as it happens during big natural calamities
like earth quakes etc
Any deliverance be it
delightful events or damage and destruction does not depend on anyone's belief
system, faith, intellectual capacity, logical perception etc. Everything
happens not necessarily as definable by any belief system or logic. Events happen
that's all not necessarily as definable by any belief system or logic. Persons
behave in very nice ways as well as nasty and inhumane ways not necessarily as
definable by any belief system or logic. It does not mean that we must sit
passively and witness everything happening around us or everyone acting the
way they want in any helpless manner cocooned in our fatalistic attitude but we
can and are empowered to always use our freewill to deal with all these events
and persons in wherever we can.
Growth of life is led
by a staircase made of the horizontal and vertical planes of fate and freewill.
http://jeevatma.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/not-so-curious/
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ANANTHA NAGESWARAN
Not so curious
A.K. Bhattacharya of ‘Business Standard’ has reviewed a book written by Shri. V. Krishnamurthy, former Chairman of BHEL, Maruti and SAIL, etc. The book may not have anything new and it may be the case that Mr. VK’s close connections to Mrs. Indira Gandhi and then her sons, etc. helped him. But, it is interesting to note that Shri. VK has mentioned twice how his religious beliefs helped him come out of tight situations.
What is difficult to understand is Mr. AKB’s observation in the end about the ‘curious explanation’ of the author’s religious beliefs helping to rehabilitate him. What is so curious about that?
In difficulties, all people run into the limits of both rationality and their abilities. They seek some intervention. In India, most people seek divine intervention. In fact, limits of reason and ability are always evident except that we do not have the ability nor the humility to accept that.
What is reinforced – yet again – is the not-so-curious case of some members of the Indian English-speaking public not being in touch with India. No wonder the rest of India does not take them seriously as much as they themselves do. That is why they are way out of touch with their election forecasts, predictions, analysis and advice. They remain in their own cocoon.
No. Make that ‘echo chamber’. They live in their own ‘echo chamber’. It is noisy and it is a nuisance but they hardly matter to the lives of rest of us.
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ANANTHA NAGESWARAN
Not so curious
A.K. Bhattacharya of ‘Business Standard’ has reviewed a book written by Shri. V. Krishnamurthy, former Chairman of BHEL, Maruti and SAIL, etc. The book may not have anything new and it may be the case that Mr. VK’s close connections to Mrs. Indira Gandhi and then her sons, etc. helped him. But, it is interesting to note that Shri. VK has mentioned twice how his religious beliefs helped him come out of tight situations.
What is difficult to understand is Mr. AKB’s observation in the end about the ‘curious explanation’ of the author’s religious beliefs helping to rehabilitate him. What is so curious about that?
In difficulties, all people run into the limits of both rationality and their abilities. They seek some intervention. In India, most people seek divine intervention. In fact, limits of reason and ability are always evident except that we do not have the ability nor the humility to accept that.
What is reinforced – yet again – is the not-so-curious case of some members of the Indian English-speaking public not being in touch with India. No wonder the rest of India does not take them seriously as much as they themselves do. That is why they are way out of touch with their election forecasts, predictions, analysis and advice. They remain in their own cocoon.
No. Make that ‘echo chamber’. They live in their own ‘echo chamber’. It is noisy and it is a nuisance but they hardly matter to the lives of rest of us.
