Of what value is that comfort which arises out of conformity, conditioning of the mind with absurd constructs while systematically prioritizing on ignorance, condemning independent and creative thought if it obliterates one’s ability and necessity to reflect on the inner form of thought and it’s interplay. Does it not eventually and envitably lead one to the abyss?
Claim. Marriage is not at all necessary to stay happy and contended in life. The reason being that, there are more essential or rudimental things than having a life partner. Most/ if not all of the things we do are temporary in the world. The reason why they don’t fit in the bigger picture is also addressed in this essay. We are born alone and will die alone. . Unless that our contribution is very fundamental here. A satisfied life and one with internal peace and harmony is and should be the greatest asset of an individual. Not that I undervalue love and relationships – but it should not be the sole purpose of life. For it makes Maya pertinent and pervade and manifest us. Detachment gets near impossible.
The ultimate purpose of life falls in one grand unified category even though it may not be the same for everyone. Although you might think it to be a mystery it is not so. Such a statement might also seem hard to justify. But it is not the case. Although it is a philosophical question but my affirmation is devoid of it. Please do consider that applied science/technology gets obsolete but true wisdom/knowledge stays with us or with the world forever. Truths in Mathematics/ Philosophy and the fundamental sciences remain eternal. Moreover people still try to embrace the lifestyle, works, methods of a person posthumously. History is very useful if one wants to not commit the mistakes/ learn from the effective learning style or even strategies of a person.
What can we infer from this? Doesn’t it reduce to our character/mindset some might ask? I would say that we as humans always aberrate for we wouldn’t wish to stagnate in. (Ex- As a child and now the character/mindsets do drastically change)
That is if you value or like to achieve the highest amount of internal peace and satisfaction /coherence in thoughts (ie clarity of mind) and even freedom. If you think living a spiritual and non-materialistic life is better than the one with Maya/worldly attachment. You should think otherwise. A life of pain if you perceive it so is better than one with remorse.
Our mind is well so kaleidoscopic. The beads being our language. Language acts on our mind whilst constraining our thoughts and emotions. Language is dual in the sense it helps us contemplate and satiates the conscious mind. There is always a finite set which generates an infinite pattern of symmetry. Language is characterized by this. Put in simple and vague terms, language is like the body of the mind. Music in a sense is greater than language in that it has the notion of the sublime and surreal. It relieves pain, agony. Music heals! Symphony in music lets us hope for the existence of objects, phenomena that surround us are just not chaotic but rather well structured of a larger continuum. Language is the basis for such an interplay of the mind and soul. Moreover if we have a larger vocabulary we tend to communicate better. In a similar manner a better or more refined language will have significant decrease in the loss of data between communicator and the source.
Author : Soumitra Keshi
Learning is the process of acquisition and enrichment of knowledge into a coherent framework. This framework in turn allows us to solve various problems be it real life/concrete ones or problems which are abstract in nature. Learning is a holistic approach of wellbeing and satisfaction. It is a beautiful art just like teaching which we will discuss later in this excerpt.
Learning is driven by interest. Learning is a multifaceted structure. We learn what fascinates us. Interest is functionally related to various parameters such as our perception, mindset, inclination, cognitive abilities, etc. Development or expertise in a specific field fetches us academic excellence and does support us financially. Learning is a chain. Knowledge and skills adds on the value and enables an individual to think from a wider perspective.
Understanding is the main objective of learning. Like other human endeavours, it is an activity based process that is –we cannot learn without getting ourselves involved. I will not go deeper into these aspects.
A teacher is an individual who has devoted their career to teaching and of course delivers sustained effort and bestows appreciation provided his/her students are willing to think independently and work progressively. A teacher guides his/her student without anything in return and cares for us. As quoted by Socrates I cannot teach, I can only make them think.
A teacher draws upon his expertise of learning prowess, techniques to empower the students and help them to grasp the material in a lucid manner. A teacher understands the psychology of the students mind and teaches them how to think. Teaching helps a person to be more expressive and explicit in nature and improves mental clarity and crystallization of concepts. A teacher is like an artist who uses a canvas to project his or her ideas, results, and emotionally connects them. This canvas is our mind. A teacher connects to the students on a higher dimension. Teaching is often referred to as the most noble of all professions. In India, we celebrate teachers day in honour of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was a great teacher.
Thanking you for giving me this opportunity to speak. I am duly grateful to my teachers. I wish you all a happy teachers day!
Maturity is when you stop expecting and start detaching from people in their egocentric means while trying to start understanding, believing in your abilities. Maturity lies with being in harmony with your mind and soul whilst realizing your infinite mental prowess. Coupling this with the notion of taking decisions which are free in themselves while intersecting with your passion and purpose leads the path to complete emotional strength and stability.An extreme analogy to this would perhaps be the prime numbers which otherwise recluse reveal about themselves only with enough love and ingenuity.
Did you know there is a fair amount of knowledge to be acquired from music? Music is essentially a juxtaposition of basic constituent elements which are arranged in a harmonious way. Here harmony is the symmetry.There is always a finite number of patterns which are composed in seemingly different ways! Ever thought what would have happened if the music you listen doesn’t consist of repeating elements, this would imply that the structure changes with time which none would like. We could not appreciate it at all. We love symmetry! This also in a analogous way enlightens us that we need not always have fundamentally new ideas, we need to be different! In extraordinary symphony with music. The notion of symmetry is the basis of structure. Philosophy as the music of ideas, isnt it?What is pure beauty affine with? The absolute state of exaltation, the transcedence, the naive joy of understanding. Something which is as immortal and empowering as philosophy, mathematics!
What do you think?
Throughout my entire past I was driven by chaos, but now amidst some arduous toil I can satisfactorily say that I find symmetry or order in the seeming chaos surrounding my innate world which was deceiving and degenerating me. This leads me to the ardent truth that I’m still learning and I’m sure that I’ll be a learner for a lifetime.
Symmetry is at the heart of mathematics and is found abundantly in nature. What is a more central notion than that of symmetry? There is none.
There is sufficient order in chaos, enough for us to exploit the symmetry.
Symmetry is by its own way very powerful which drives our intuition.To end it all – Nature loves symmetry.
Life as I perceive it is all about discovering a particular kind of theory or philosophy. We make the theory more refined or general by the passage of time (gaining insights), and with rigor, intuition. While we do so this explicit or rather pedantic nature of ours helps us to evade out all the unnecessary issues and trouble.
To air is human. Our actions and behaviour intrinsically reflect our characteristic state of mind (to say the least). Yes, they indeed speak a lot more. They are a gate to our subconscious mind. They do speak about our innate needs and desires. For the most intense of the thoughts are the most severe and sustained, being the ones which we adopt.
Digressing from this, let us consider some more ideas which lead the path to ethics and moral on a rational point of view. What separates man from animal?
I will consider some of the most characteristic differences pertaining to this discussion. The first being emotional intelligence, love and responsibility. These three in fact lay the foundation to our ethics, moral and rationality,
What is love?
It is a state of unconditional support on the receiver. The relation does not matter and is arbitrary. It is pure and not illicit.
Thus, it suffices to say that there remains no ground for jealousy, differences or other acts which partition our rationality and induce negative emotions which on the other hand, partition or deplete our energy.
This feedback mechanism builds our ethical value, building on its way to austerity and the sublime.
Philosophical Realms 