By Myself ... Plunging into the vastness of my inner Universe
Yesterday evening … by myself…
I had a glass of
ice-cold vodka… and I listened to Gregorian
Chants… it was peaceful… it was heavenly…and the vodka gave more energy to
my wings and I plunged deeper and deeper into the cast universe within me… This
evening I did not want to soar up…and up…This evening was for me…by myself …
swimming in my inner vastness… No sound…other than the chants… It is great… and
the vodka is good…
Now I am in the
presence of wonderful guests…Great minds… Tolstoy visited me… along with Gandhi…
their words are enchanting… It does not matter whether they were talking Russian
or Ukrainian or Armenian … I followed them with awe … I followed the peaceful discussion
and then I listened to the English-Hindi of Gandhi…
I was in a
language-without-borders zone… Humanity was one…and I was unified with my inner
universe…
I was happy… Thinking
always makes me high…and I enjoy it…But thinking with the aid of good drinks
and with wonderful company… makes the evening extra special… I enjoyed it…
I told myself I
have to share this with all…I have to share this with my students of
yesteryears… I thought they will be annoyed…of my intrusion… I had another sip
of the vodka and I told myself… they will excuse me… after all, they were my
students and they are good kids…struggling to me wonderful adults…
I also wanted to
include in the group my friends of long, very long time ago… when the world was
defined by Russian and Ukrainian and Armenian… and not by the North American decadence…
My friends were
good people… I do not know what happened to them… But a good friend was killed
in battle… his skull was ripped off by Azeri-Turks… by a shell from
Azeri-Turkish shell from an Azeri-Turkish tank … My friends and my students
kept me company and shared the wisdom of my special guests… Tolstoy and Gandhi…
Read the letters of
Tolstoy and reflect… You do not need vodka to comprehend it… Some of you are
too young to drink… But my friends of the years before… will join me… I am sure
they will…and we will honour my other friend who is skull-less now…
Read Tolstoy… and
live like Gandhi…
....And read Tolstoy now... and embrace his love ...
Gandhi and Tolstoy....
...and the GEMS...
It is natural for men to
help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another.
Love is the only way to
rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving
your people from enslavement… Love, and forcible resistance to evil-doers,
involve such a mutual contradiction as to destroy utterly the whole sense and
meaning of the conception of love.
But by the term “scientific” is understood just
what was formerly understood by the term “religious”: just as formerly
everything called “religious” was held to be unquestionable simply because it
was called religious, so now all that is called “scientific” is held to be
unquestionable… The unfortunate majority of men bound to toil is so dazzled by
the pomp with which these “scientific truths” are presented, that under this
new influence it accepts these scientific stupidities for holy truth, just as
it formerly accepted the pseudo-religious justifications.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity
from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people
from enslavement… Love, and forcible resistance to evil-doers, involve such a
mutual contradiction as to destroy utterly the whole sense and meaning of the
conception of love.
What are wanted for the Indian as for
the Englishman, the Frenchman, the German, and the Russian, are not
Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor
the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor
powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of
the rich, ruling classes; nor new schools and universities with innumerable
faculties of science, nor an augmentation of papers and books, nor gramophones
and cinematographs, nor those childish and for the most part corrupt
stupidities termed art — but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the
simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by
religious and scientific superstitions — the truth that for our life one law is
valid — the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual
as well as to all mankind. Free your minds from those overgrown, mountainous
imbecilities which hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will
emerge from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering it: the
indubitable, eternal truth inherent in man, which is one and the same in all
the great religions of the world.
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...And now Einstein and Tagore... Wow! What a special treat...
Read the dialogue between the two great and be part of their greatness...
Love...Beauty...Unity...and Peace...
Great company...
When great minds whisper... I just listen in awe...
You should too...
Just read the dialogue below...I am sure you will agree...In the presence of great thinkers...I listen in silence.. I listen in awe... and learn...and read again...and learn more...
Learning as a hobby...learning as a enjoyable good time...
EINSTEIN: Do you believe in the Divine as
isolated from the world?
TAGORE: Not
isolated. The infinite personality of Man comprehends the Universe. There
cannot be anything that cannot be subsumed by the human personality, and this
proves that the Truth of the Universe is human Truth.
I have taken a
scientific fact to explain this — Matter is composed of protons and electrons,
with gaps between them; but matter may seem to be solid. Similarly humanity is
composed of individuals, yet they have their interconnection of human
relationship, which gives living unity to man’s world. The entire universe is
linked up with us in a similar manner, it is a human universe. I have pursued
this thought through art, literature and the religious consciousness of man.
EINSTEIN: There
are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) The world
as a unity dependent on humanity. (2) The world as a reality independent of the
human factor.
TAGORE: When
our universe is in harmony with Man, the eternal, we know it as Truth, we feel
it as beauty.
EINSTEIN: This
is the purely human conception of the universe.
TAGORE: There
can be no other conception. This world is a human world — the scientific view
of it is also that of the scientific man. There is some standard of reason and enjoyment
which gives it Truth, the standard of the Eternal Man whose experiences are
through our experiences.
EINSTEIN: This
is a realization of the human entity.
TAGORE: Yes,
one eternal entity. We have to realize it through our emotions and activities. We
realized the Supreme Man who has no individual limitations through our
limitations. Science is concerned with that which is not confined to
individuals; it is the impersonal human world of Truths. Religion realizes
these Truths and links them up with our deeper needs; our individual
consciousness of Truth gains universal significance. Religion applies values to
Truth, and we know this Truth as good through our own harmony with it.
EINSTEIN: Truth,
then, or Beauty is not independent of Man?
TAGORE: No.
EINSTEIN: If
there would be no human beings any more, the Apollo of Belvedere would no
longer be beautiful.
TAGORE: No.
EINSTEIN: I
agree with regard to this conception of Beauty, but not with regard to Truth.
TAGORE: Why
not? Truth is realized through man.
EINSTEIN: I
cannot prove that my conception is right, but that is my religion.
TAGORE: Beauty
is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the
perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind. We individuals approach it through
our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experiences, through our
illumined consciousness — how, otherwise, can we know Truth?
EINSTEIN: I
cannot prove scientifically that Truth must be conceived as a Truth that is
valid independent of humanity; but I believe it firmly. I believe, for
instance, that the Pythagorean theorem in geometry states something that is
approximately true, independent of the existence of man. Anyway, if there is a
reality independent of man, there is also a Truth relative to this reality; and
in the same way the negation of the first engenders a negation of the existence
of the latter.
TAGORE: Truth,
which is one with the Universal Being, must essentially be human, otherwise
whatever we individuals realize as true can never be called truth – at least
the Truth which is described as scientific and which only can be reached
through the process of logic, in other words, by an organ of thoughts which is
human. According to Indian Philosophy there is Brahman, the absolute Truth, which
cannot be conceived by the isolation of the individual mind or described by
words but can only be realized by completely merging the individual in its
infinity. But such a Truth cannot belong to Science. The nature of Truth which
we are discussing is an appearance – that is to say, what appears to be true to
the human mind and therefore is human, and may be called maya or
illusion.
EINSTEIN: So
according to your conception, which may be the Indian conception, it is not the
illusion of the individual, but of humanity as a whole.
TAGORE: The
species also belongs to a unity, to humanity. Therefore the entire human mind
realizes Truth; the Indian or the European mind meet in a common realization.
EINSTEIN: The
word species is used in German for all human beings, as a matter of fact, even
the apes and the frogs would belong to it.
TAGORE: In
science we go through the discipline of eliminating the personal limitations of
our individual minds and thus reach that comprehension of Truth which is in the
mind of the Universal Man.
EINSTEIN: The
problem begins whether Truth is independent of our consciousness.
TAGORE: What
we call truth lies in the rational harmony between the subjective and objective
aspects of reality, both of which belong to the super-personal man.
EINSTEIN: Even
in our everyday life we feel compelled to ascribe a reality independent of man
to the objects we use. We do this to connect the experiences of our senses in a
reasonable way. For instance, if nobody is in this house, yet that table remains
where it is.
TAGORE: Yes,
it remains outside the individual mind, but not the universal mind. The table
which I perceive is perceptible by the same kind of consciousness which I
possess.
EINSTEIN: If
nobody would be in the house the table would exist all the same — but this is
already illegitimate from your point of view — because we cannot explain what
it means that the table is there, independently of us.
Our natural
point of view in regard to the existence of truth apart from humanity cannot be
explained or proved, but it is a belief which nobody can lack — no primitive
beings even. We attribute to Truth a super-human objectivity; it is
indispensable for us, this reality which is independent of our existence and
our experience and our mind — though we cannot say what it means.
TAGORE: Science
has proved that the table as a solid object is an appearance and therefore that
which the human mind perceives as a table would not exist if that mind were naught.
At the same time it must be admitted that the fact, that the ultimate physical
reality is nothing but a multitude of separate revolving centres of electric
force, also belongs to the human mind.
In the
apprehension of Truth there is an eternal conflict between the universal human
mind and the same mind confined in the individual. The perpetual process of
reconciliation is being carried on in our science, philosophy, in our ethics.
In any case, if there be any Truth absolutely unrelated to humanity then for us
it is absolutely non-existing.
It is not
difficult to imagine a mind to which the sequence of things happens not in
space but only in time like the sequence of notes in music. For such a mind
such conception of reality is akin to the musical reality in which Pythagorean
geometry can have no meaning. There is the reality of paper, infinitely
different from the reality of literature. For the kind of mind possessed by the
moth which eats that paper literature is absolutely non-existent, yet for Man’s
mind literature has a greater value of Truth than the paper itself. In a
similar manner if there be some Truth which has no sensuous or rational
relation to the human mind, it will ever remain as nothing so long as we remain
human beings.
EINSTEIN: Then
I am more religious than you are!
TAGORE: My religion is in the reconciliation
of the Super-personal Man, the universal human spirit, in my own individual
being.
The journey was exhilarating...
***
...By heavenly journey is shattered into pieces
by other occurrences of the day... These puny
people will never leave my by myself and a
glass of vodka and Chants and my honoured
guests..The GREAT minds of yesterday...and
today...and forever...
He has muscles....................................................................and he can punch..................................................
He is the Rice guy...the football player... he punched the lights out of his fiancee...in the elevator...But he is "sorry" and he is not a "violent" person...Just he jumps on other players in football....just he punches women who do not yield to his "charm" and "money" and "muscles" in his arms and below his belt...
...and the result of his punch is devastating...She passes out....But now she writes...that she still loves him...and wants to be with him....
Women who are subject to violence usually want to stay with their torturers...
Read the report which is released only few days ago...
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE KILLS MORE THAN CIVIL WARS
There’s a deadly war
raging next door and it costs the global economy more than the conflicts in
Iraq, Syria and Ukraine combined. Researchers
at the Copenhagen Consensus Center say that for every person killed in civil
wars, nine people are killed by domestic violence, costing the world economy a
staggering $8 trillion per year. The
study will be presented to the UN to help create global sustainable development
goals for 2030.
******
Indeed a Houdini Act....
Coroner: Black man shot himself in the chest with hands cuffed
behind his back….
He shot himself in the chest while his hands were handcuffed to his
Just a question...How can a guy his hands handcuffed to his back...can shoot himself in his chest...?
This one beats me... Later I might ask Einstein or Tolstoy or Gandhi or Tagore...to help me in comprehending it...
Big Brothers lie...and we have to pretend that we believe them...
That's how it is... That's what you have to change...and make things better...
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