Understanding this Reality helps us know how we have evolved. We learn and realize that evolving into more advanced forms increases the specificity of their attributes, and make them more different and independent of each other, despite cohabiting the same bracket that encloses the primitive, unevolved form. In effect these brackets contain anthropological singularities with fewer complexities. Studying these 'singularities' helps us retrace the path along Time through prehistory, back to our origin.
We also believe that this evolution has been progressing faster and faster over time though nobody till now has figured out a strong Reason behind it. This is actually the most dominant perception amongst us. Greater possibilities of evolving into more varieties bring more and more people into its fold of belief -- that the Pace of our evolution has an element of Acceleration. Studying History of Mankind, and trying to correlate and connect the dots in where History has tended to be vague, keeping in mind the parallel movements of anthropological and archaeological revelations give us this information - the 'effective degree' of evolution that has taken place over a given span of time, say 70,000 years back had taken a far more wider span of time to occur amongst us, or rather when a lesser evolved species (which we can claim to be our "forefathers"), walked upon our planet say two million years ago. In a way, what it tells us is that the more primitive we are, the greater variability of perceptions we possess. The spectrum that is available for us to study across its height and depth is much more wider. That leaves us with more freedom to ponder upon, more choices, more perspectives, and thus more 'depth of knowledge' for us to acquire. I would like to dampen this 'reassuring or lucrative' perception that most people develop in a bid to completely understand origin of species, because man, by nature, wants to learn, to seek for answers that provide more insights into our 'origin'.
We tend to define our reality by the words that we use, both with the spoken word, as well as the words we never say. Yet reality can only be seen in the absence of thought and belief when it comes to understanding our own selves. The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals but in what he cannot reveal. Therefore to understand man, we should listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing -- man is not the voice of his mind. Man is what he hears from his surroundings. When his intention changes the way to understand things, the things that his intention wants to understand change too. This is the actualization of transformation. Of Change.
Inherent in every Intention and Desire is the mechanics for its Fulfillment. Intention and Desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us. Everybody has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places it leads to.
Each of us comes into this world with a specific destiny -- we have something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. No one is here accidentally -- we all are here meaningfully. There is a Purpose behind us all. The Whole intends to do something through us.
When a child is born, he is completely free from preformed perceptions, having still not been affected by the "conditioning" through which the human mind lets itself get influenced by as it moves on with time..
Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. Some of us, with sensitive seeking minds, "realize" this fallacy somewhere ahead in life, learning through events and experiences. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.
There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what one has been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what he has been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, one can either honour it or ignore it, but he cannot forget it.
The Truth I have realized after consciously unlearning a few basic concepts of life is : What has become known can not become unknown again.
---- Sent from my BlackBerry®
Dr.Anirban Chaudhuri
Consultant Physician (special interest in
Cardiology&Critical Care)
Mumbai, India
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been
there before me.(Sigmund Freud)
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