Creating An Alternative Reality For Yourself
AS children, when we asked had a ay of saying, "That is how it is. And at is what you have to follow." If and father tried to make me understand, what he said was, "These e traditions that our elders have lowed and so we too should do the me. Ours is not to ask why." The mystery made us feel that it was so esoteric and it could not be shared th children. For that reason alone, en inane acts like not crossing over a aping person, or not walking under a Idler or not touching what was 'pure' 'cleansed' clothes, or wearing a bind, re followed, albeit reluctantly. Growing up, one realised there was thing esoteric about these beliefs; they were dismissed as superstitions by most. To me, they and many other acts of ours on which we base our daily lives, form an integral part of whole is. They build our belief system. I also realised many reasons that were given to me by my grandparents probably did not have a logical basis. We created myths, told stories and thereby developed an alternative reality. In order to find explanations to our lives, so impermanent, so full of surprises, we developed ideas that explain them. The ideas developed in relation to the milieu within which we grew; others became pan-world. Like the idea of love. Mythology talks of infatuations and lust but does not dwell at length on "relationships" and what we understand today as love. But we have built a bubble and fed it with romantic songs and created a comfort zone in which we would like to live. If that does not happen, we get depressed, unhappy. This isjust an example. Yuval Harari, an Israeli historian and author of the book, 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind', says that our imagination and our capacity to tell stories combined with our ability to work together, co-operate on any single theme, is the short of our long story of evolution. For instance, if you visit any ashram today, the followers form a cohesive and even loving group. They all believe in their Guru. So they can all come together. This is also called alternative reality. The alternative reality could come from any philosophy... atheistic or theistic Literary or sportive. Any activity wheyou are with yourself, pursuing a goalthatyou think is very engaging and yolose yourself, is an alternative reality that you are creating for yourself. What then is real? Difficultto articulate, reality gives us a glimpse with the idea that Yama or Death findsno point of time inaccessible;that we not know what lies ahead of this life onwhat lay before. Reality asks us why w are here in this world and laughs wheryou say youlove a person more than liReality is. That is all seekers like ucan say about it. One can also howeversay it is the alternative reality within which we live that Shankara called 'maya'. He did not say this world isa liHe said the world we have created with our minds and intellect-not necessarily in our lifetime but over ouevolution-is maya.
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Creating An Alternative Reality For Yourself
AS children, when we asked had a ay of saying, "That is how it is. And at is what you have to follow." If and father tried to make me understand, what he said was, "These e traditions that our elders have lowed and so we too should do the me. Ours is not to ask why." The mystery made us feel that it was so esoteric and it could not be shared th children. For that reason alone, en inane acts like not crossing over a aping person, or not walking under a Idler or not touching what was 'pure' 'cleansed' clothes, or wearing a bind, re followed, albeit reluctantly. Growing up, one realised there was thing esoteric about these beliefs; they were dismissed as superstitions by most. To me, they and many other acts of ours on which we base our daily lives, form an integral part of whole is. They build our belief system. I also realised many reasons that were given to me by my grandparents probably did not have a logical basis. We created myths, told stories and thereby developed an alternative reality. In order to find explanations to our lives, so impermanent, so full of surprises, we developed ideas that explain them. The ideas developed in relation to the milieu within which we grew; others became pan-world. Like the idea of love. Mythology talks of infatuations and lust but does not dwell at length on "relationships" and what we understand today as love. But we have built a bubble and fed it with romantic songs and created a comfort zone in which we would like to live. If that does not happen, we get depressed, unhappy. This isjust an example. Yuval Harari, an Israeli historian and author of the book, 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind', says that our imagination and our capacity to tell stories combined with our ability to work together, co-operate on any single theme, is the short of our long story of evolution. For instance, if you visit any ashram today, the followers form a cohesive and even loving group. They all believe in their Guru. So they can all come together. This is also called alternative reality. The alternative reality could come from any philosophy... atheistic or theistic Literary or sportive. Any activity wheyou are with yourself, pursuing a goalthatyou think is very engaging and yolose yourself, is an alternative reality that you are creating for yourself. What then is real? Difficultto articulate, reality gives us a glimpse with the idea that Yama or Death findsno point of time inaccessible;that we not know what lies ahead of this life onwhat lay before. Reality asks us why w are here in this world and laughs wheryou say youlove a person more than liReality is. That is all seekers like ucan say about it. One can also howeversay it is the alternative reality within which we live that Shankara called 'maya'. He did not say this world isa liHe said the world we have created with our minds and intellect-not necessarily in our lifetime but over ouevolution-is maya.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Sudhamahi Regunathan kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Sudhamahi Regunathan Speaking Tree ,Times of India