How to keep in tune
with everything?
"The
spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." - Swami Chinmayananda.
I choose this quote purely because
this primarily explains and involves refraining seeing anything through the
prism of any ‘ism’ and developing a synergy to keep in tune with everything.
I have been reading a lot of
your [Subhash Kak’s] works and at the outset I would like to place my appreciation
of your vast research and wide knowledge of the subjects that you deal with.
But having said that I feel
we need to understand that life is a constant process of churning and for
facility of identification and reference we classify many things with different
terminologies.
Some of these terminologies
become so well settled that they help us recognize, report and reevaluate
whenever we encounter some similar things.
So, names and terminologies
mostly are easy tools for recognition and classification but they do not confer
any exclusive identity to one aspect of life against the other.
Therefore, in any field , if
we allow the inherent energy of that field to freely flow without our pre-conception
of it, we may encounter the interconnectivity , inter-relatedness and sometimes
the inter-dependence as well, of many of
the entities that we tend to slice up for the convenience of our own easier
frames of reference and understanding.
So, my mind , instinctively
reacts whenever I come across the term ‘versus’ or usage of the term ‘and’ as
if a tool to bridge the gaps between two entities.
It is true that while each
entity by itself may exhibit some inherent characteristics and express some
unique utility but not necessarily different perspective on life.
While polarity principle is
inherent, most often, the differences are developed due to perceptional
deficiencies.
It becomes all the more
impelling to break this paradigm of even debating certain entities as different
from one another especially if those entities are very vital aspects that seem
to permeate with life as whole and play their inevitable part, of which our
awareness may be of varying degrees of knowledge or ignorance.
These are mainly, and usually
often debated arenas of science, philosophy and spirituality.
I have tried through
observation as well study of materials available aplenty on all these three
categories to understand what we mean by those very terms.
Without a clear cut
definition of what we mean by each one these terms we mean be swimming in a verbally
intoxicating cock tail of terminologies.
Here in the following links I
lay forth my attempts to understand them with many sub links in them. So, it
involves a long reading.
I welcome wider debates and
discussions on these without any irrelevant ideological extrapolations.
There
is this inevitable polarity principle in nature and evolution.
Like evolutionary biology, there are
evolutionary trends, metamorphosis or constant changes in social systems, philosophies,
sciences, linguistics, arts, languages and so on.
Unless we observe and study them i.e. the
evolutionary trends /changes in all spheres of life with contextual relevance we
may not live in tune with the whole of life and will continue to view life in
bits and pieces.
Though
it is easy to analyze life in bits and pieces but then that is a wrong
perspective imbued with lot of inevitable prejudices.
As
a result of this wrong perspective and attitude there is an unending list of these
‘versus’:-Faithful versus unfaithful; Religious versus irreligious; Science
versus Religion; Science or religion versus spirituality; Tradition versus
taboo; Technology versus Humanity.
I
can elaborate the damage these perspectives have done to the development of
humanity leading to petrified ideologies, putrefied perspectives, and puerile
interpretation of many things and ended up viewing various polarity principles
as paradoxes.
So, it is time for us to go beyond all divisive paradoxes and experience the
synergy so that we may keep in tune with
everything.
Philosophy
Science
Spirituality
Polarity principle
Synergy
