The short text covers a wide spectrum of philosophy, religion, ritualism and metaphysics.
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Translation by Rishi Aurobindo
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Today is the Independence Day of the Democratic, Sovereign Republic of India. Today we become a 61 year young nation.
And we are free. And even with the vote bank politics often playing on cast-cards, we remain primarily a secular and liberal nation.
But what is freedom?
Freedom means having the liberty of making your own choices. Yes, this includes the wrong ones too. It’s about the liberty of making free choice about which song you sing, which dress you wear, which God you follow (or the liberty of not following any if you are an agnostic), which language you speak etc. etc. provided that these choices of you does not harm that of others.
What about making choices?
Do we always have an option? "When the only choice is perhaps the wrong one, it’s more like FATE."
Or when the closure of our thought comes, we bound to choose an option which is more like the result of a random experiment than a logical outcome.
I know this article is also getting messy like always. Diverting from where it started and flowing without any proper direction. In fact, this is another messy post flowing with the flow of my already messed up mind.
The question however, is simple. Can you make any logical decision? While taking a decision you start thinking with respect to a set of theory-judgment-prescriptions and a point of view. Let’s call these theory-judgment-prescriptions as the ‘options’ you have. Of course, you can have many more options to choose from (rather other decisions to take) which are outside this set. But these are not our concern because the universe is infinite and in any point of time you can have no less number of possible choices than infinite itself. So, let’s say that we can not bring up any new ideas while the decision making process is on. This means taking a decision means choosing one from the options.
The entry point of decision making process is when you start thinking with a set of options and a point of view. Then the implications of each option starts becoming clear to you and you go into a comparative analysis of the implications involved which is called opening. But the implications of even a small decision can be infinite. So, we can not afford a real thorough thinking with all of the details involved because we can not keep thinking forever. So, after a certain period we say “Ok, that’s it. After thinking this much it seems this choice is the better one to take.” And we come to a decision and act. This is called closure.
Even if we engage ourselves a real looooooong time in thinking we may not end up at a right decision. Which seems to be the right decision at this moment may be proved to be the worst possible mistake because of the changing time. With the flow of time people change, situation changes, affinity changes, relation changes and so change you. Like the booming IT sector of 2006 crashes with some sort of things called US Recession, Rupee Appreciation, Indian Economic Slowdown and Blah-Blah…
(May be continued…)
4 yrs, 40 subjects, 400 experiments, 40000 lectures, A normal man can't do this. Remaining abnormals are called ENGINEERS!!! |
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