ON KNOWING

on knowing

Most of the people are ‘know-nothings.’ They go through a kind of education and pick up the most superficial information at random. The facts they gather to pass exams are not connected, linked up, seen, felt and the possibility of applying to anything, of creating something never arises.

Then they go around looking for employment. They find it and they are taught a specific, particular thing to do. It is specific, concrete bound and not fundamental, basic, deep, creative, challenging the mind to think originally and come out with real innovation.

It is a kind of very minimal work that is demanded. It is learnt fast and is as close to a robotic kind of work as can come.

True, these jobs are important in practical life and is usually given the name - “Skill”. But it is a compartmentalized work not creative work.

What is really creative work? How does that come about?

A passionate, creative work comes and flows from a real understanding of things.

Let us try to understand what a real understanding is.

A real understanding connects to reality. It is seeN. This does not happen automatically. One needs to think.

Thinking involves relating things to each other. First we see facts, collect facts - just facts. They are in the beginning just a collection. Then we start a process of looking for causal relationships, how one thing determines another, changes another, modifies another, influences another. This process is applied wholesale, this abstract understanding is integrated with all that exists and all that is known.

Thus to know means to hold the full relationships of everything to everything! This leads one to know everything, not all details, but in terms of fundamentals.

This is the full meaning of logic, of truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

This is a tremendous thing and gives rise to a precious, priceless feeling inside, a feeling of power, of almost an omnipotence.

It is like by understanding, relating things you have held the whole world as a UNIT and thus in the palm of your hand!

Great scientists, artists, singers, leaders, know this feeling!

It is very difficult to communicate it but it is there within - a flame it is, that burns, grow, absorbs, keeps relating and relating, seeing more and more connections, becoming more and more powerful.

One profound result of this kind of leaving (NOT ‘learning’ some compartmentalized operations and procedures) is that you get hundreds of ideas to do things.

You start applying your knowledge and this is the only true meaning of work way of life itself. How is it that when one sees things and relates things, one gets ideal to apply and create new products, services, designs, new ways of doing things. The word, the key word, is ‘invention’.

Knowledge, true knowledge leads to ‘invention’.

Invention brings in Man into the picture. To understand the phenomenon of light, at least some terms, is to come out with lenses to see bigger.

Seeing bigger is a power! Using electromagnetic effects to create a turning motion is a power. To fly in an aeroplane is a power!

It is a magical power unrivalled by any wondrous magic. It is almost a miraculous, a divine process and is felt as the highest ecstasy because Man is that, Man is powerful - literally!

That sweeping view of the world leads to numerous, almost infinite, possibilities!

HOW ROMANTIC LOVE WORKS

HOW ROMANTIC LOVE WORKS

Romantic love is a profound thing, the deepest, the fullest one can feel.

It is an electric thing – passionate, trembling, infinite.

What is that infinitude? Why is that infinitude?

Life is a process of acquiring fundamental values of character to enable us fully and joyously to act out our plan of life.

Life is purposive. Purpose is central to a man’s or a woman’s character. Purpose is that choice, fundamental choice that rules a man, drives a man, fulfills a man essentially psychologically but also physically (in that he earns his living by that)

A central purpose gives meaning to man’s life, integrates his life, is synonymous with life.

A purposeless life is not life and is as close to death as a man can come.

What is involved in a life of purpose? Purpose is a passion that is a profound grounding, an exultant security, for a man. It defines him, so to speak, and provides a wholeness and long range activity to him.

In that sense, it is purpose that makes him take birth as man. Once a purpose is deeply felt, and committed to, man is free!

There is no other thought then, no drifting, no running, no pursuit of blind, mindless values….

It is purpose that makes a man rise above  the conventional world- the world that runs amok, sightless creatures following rules set by others , with no real passion, a robotism that is swallowing the world, no individuality, hence no character, no ground within the being…

With a purpose, man is free, detached from the conventional world. Yet it is he who creates, preserves, gives meaning to the world.

Purpose is hence naturally, obviously joyous because a man with a purpose has roots, deep roots to live on earth.

It is purpose that gives courage, energy, enthusiasm…

A man of purpose, a man who has essentially defined his identity, given complete meaning to life in thought and action is a passionate man.

He has a tremendous feeling for life. When such a man meets another with the same kind of deep grounding in a great purpose, the result is electric, passionate, trembling, filled with an infinite, deep ecstasy.

Why is it so?

It is a confirmation not in his mind but in front of him, objectified.

It is as if by some miracle, he can touch his purpose, touch his life, feel life by touch, sight, by his senses. It is as if a being comes and says- I am you, see me, hold me to feel yourself. You are hidden but I have brought the hidden in you out as I embody you.

You see, we live in our minds but reality is not in the mind but out there. A purpose satisfies one but we also need to, if such a miracle could be wrought, SEE the meaning of our purpose. Another human being has got the power to give us that on various levels.

Just to see the same purpose in another brings out the deepest confirmation without thought, filling us with a single, overwhelming feeling- ROMANTIC LOVE.

It is an intimacy, the “I” that we are finding a way by which it can see feel, touch, not another physical body but a concrete form and vision of his deepest grounding and foundation.

It is really a simple feeling- deep, infinite, serene and yet violent, tense, trembling. It is a union of thought and sense.

Sex hence is the most intense feeling one can feel. You can while making love, actually find the greatest blessing, because your purpose, your foundation and grounding has acquired more than a sensory value, it has become linked with pleasure.

It is a gift, a natural capacity, inborn, ingrained. To touch, feel and find a pleasure in such a way that one’s values are being confirmed. The feeling is – Yes! Yes! Yes!

It is a trembling ‘yes’ to life, to existence, to the inherent benevolence of being. It is a glorious thing and it is hence, the greatest sin to deny its meaning, its fulfilling potential, its grace, its ecstasy.