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Monday, June 7, 2010
Knowledge is just illusion
What is knowledge is it a reality or just an illusion, an illusion created by human mind. The author knows it well that he is trying his hand on a very difficult and politically incorrect area, but sometimes the mind wants to tread in this often unknown territory.
Always so much of emphasis is given to knowledge, knowledgeable persons are respected in all the quarters of life, every where one can find this obnoxious item, in the form of books,blogs websites,news papers, articles,ppts etc. In each and every nook one can find knowledge, The disease of this knowledge has become so contagious that it has started coming out of its regular adobe to various new places such as chat forums, parties,cafes everywhere.
But one thing I don't understand what is the basis of knowledge, or rather what is it exactly. As much I can understand it is just one's own projection,one's own understanding but why does it happen that an individual's understanding becomes a universal truth. If Freud writes on psychoanalysis it would have been his vision his understanding. How come that becomes a universal idea, why should a psychology student or for that any other student should go through the trauma of reading 500 stupid pages of psychoanalysis. It was Sigmund Freud’s idea and he has the right to perceive whatever he wants, but the problem arises when his personal idea becomes a universal truth & over a period of time this newly formed knowledge is read by more and more people thereby this idea which was once nothing but just an individual opinion starts getting deep and deep into individual psyche, bolstering itself more strongly as an universal conception.
That's the whole game of knowledge. Knowledge often disguised in some complex terminology and higher idea is nothing but an illusion, a chimera an individual's personal opinion which by chance becomes an enlightening thought.
I have started pitying people who gives so much of emphasis to this word knowledge. There is no dearth of such people who often live their whole life on this borrowed entity, in every corner of this world one can find such people discussing and debating, arguing and counter-arguing. Circling around some complex philosophy, vomiting out some bookish knowledge often lased with complex terms & these complex terms are often the life line of knowledge because it is these terms that can make a simple idea pure knowledge because knowledge can't be simple ,it should have state of the art terminologies which are often tough in remembering, and it has to be difficult in remembering because if it will have simple words then it will be remembered by any one, it will no more be an elite indulgence, an idea with simple words will be a disagreement with the general concept of knowledge according to which knowledge must have a streak of complexity.
In the end I will say that knowledge is just illusion.
(Views expressed over here are strictly personal and the author very well knows relegating knowledge as illusion might be too impractical but under the influence of some brusque random thoughts the author has written the blog.)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Defeated, Dejected and Demotivated .
There happens to be time when you feel defeated , when you feel dejected and when you are low in motivation, you don't feel like doing any thing neither do you have the strength nor do you have the focus to do any thing, you just want to relax,just relax and nothing else, you just want to sustain yourself, just want to do the bare minimum of your life and after that you do not want to do any thing . It happens with every individual.It happens , and their is nothing new in this .You feel as if their is some flaw in the design it self ,you feel as if its no more your mistake, in fact you are some one who is beyond this game of mistakes and correctness ,you are just a part of the game which is played on you and with you with out your permission. you are just helpless, you are no one to do, you thought that you can make a lot of difference, you dreamed high and was optimistic of your victory, but it was not the victory but defeat that was waiting for you because defeat was designed for you by destiny. it was your illusion that there was victory but there was no victory , in fact victory is the privilege of a few and for other it is defeat , and you are among this very vast bunch of others, the losers who in spite of making good start are derailed in the middle , they loose their motive mid way so do their goal and target .There happens to be a hunger a passion in the beginning but suddenly it goes away ,once the effervescence goes out every thing dries up.
The very purpose of life that was dreaming of the ideals of perfection, victory and celebration suddenly gives way to idea of sustenance, just sustenance by following the bare minimum requirements , and beyond that there is now no extra need, in fact its not about whether there is a need or not ,because need and want are just projection of mind, a projection that makes you do some thing but now since you have started questioning the design it self where is the need for these projected needs and wants, No need ,No want just sustenance mere sustenance and beyond that it is all illusion for this tired mind and exhausted body.
AND IN THE BACKGROUND COMES THE LINKIN PARK'S FAMOUS SONG:-
I tried so hard and get so far but in the end it does not even matter,
i had to fall and loose it all .
i am defeated , i am dejected and i feel demotivated .
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