Thursday, March 15, 2007

आई एम बैक

भाई लोगों अपुन की लाईफ की सेड स्टोरी ऐसी है कि टू टाईम्स अपुन ने ट्राई मारा हिंदी में लिखने की, लेकिन दोनो बार गूगल ने अपनी वाट लगा डाली. पन अपुन ने हिम्मत नही हारा, और एक बार फिर स्टार्ट. सिर्फ तुम लोगो के लिए कुछ दोहें, जो बचपन में अपुन का टीचर अपुन को पढाएला था

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Evolution, Faith, Reason & Existence - I

When life initially evolved, it was in form of organisms whose biology was not dependant on oxygen (understandable as there was hardly any free oxygen at that time) . Then around 2.7 billion years ago a new type of bacteria evolved which produced oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis, after a time lag of 300 million years, delay possibly due to fixation of oxygen, the quantity of oxygen increased all of sudden in atmosphere. This event was disastrous for primitive life forms, oxygen almost acting as poison for them. Eventually however, life altered suitably and result was explosion of oxygen based life forms.

I like to believe that a similar upheaval, although at much smaller scale occurred, when life was able to contemplate itself. Prior to rise of conscious, life was simple, at least in sense of interaction, the rules of engagement decided by instinct. Predators chased, prey ran.
I picture the first such individual pondering over the meaning of existence. After the initial exhilaration over ability to explore has died down, desperation sets in.

Life was bewildered by the absence of any precedence to it. The device of duality, of subject and object, cause and effect with which consciousness viewed outside world failed when trained on itself.
Imagine the despair, on the one hand life is condemned to eternity of being bastardised, and on the other hand decomposition awaited it. The end was there but just like the beginning devoid of purpose, and this eventuality of mortality was more terrible. This dilemma could drive the newly formed mind crazy, instead life being more resilient became delusional.

It invented origin(God, Brahman) and end (Salvation, Moksha). Thus it continued evolving. To manage growth it formalised rules which were driven by instincts as morality. It is to be noted that morality can not be universal because management of evolution is imprecise and dependant on the context further morality is merely a formal notation devised for sake of manageability of something which is essentially product of instincts, it is not cause of faith, nor its object. At any rate life continued existing. Also evolved reasoning as a formal subject.

But yet another upheaval occurred, reason outgrew the framework of faith. Once more struggle ensued with the result that faith was more or less dismantled. Now life is without shield of faith and once more faces its metaphysical illegitimacy.

This is where rationalists err, they spend their effort on discovering basis for morality according to reason, where morality is anchored in instincts where it should be the last thing to bother about. Meanwhile life is once again exposed to corrosive effect of existential dilemma. Survival of life will depend on the future evolution to account for reason. Life will mutate and adapt to reason, what will be the new face of evolution, perhaps this ?

On being Eco -friendly

Seriously speaking why should I care about global warming ??

Reflections

God is dead, man to follow.

Man is not a rational creature, rather he is a rationalizing one.

No truth exists behind morality, it is the collective delusion. It is what remain of religion when faith is gone. A rotting corpse of God.

From "Of Human Bondage", in my opinion best work by Maugham,

Phillip's philosophy was "follow your inclinations with due regard to the
policeman around the corner."

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

And then there was ....

Man is inquisitive, man is also self aware . The union of these two instincts and the ability to think in terms of abstract is the origin of philosophy (and darshan). So far existence has continued to exasperate those seeking its essence.

When age of human civilization was just dawning the sages claimed in the very beginning Brahma existed, then Brahma created cosmos. The driver for creation was a divine will, a desire, even a lacunae to attain plurality. Existence from essence.

Rationalism starts from the other end, in the beginning there was man. It was he who created the God to attain singularity, to somehow bridge the gap between present and supposed primal cause through chain of causality. Thus it was desire to find the irreducible absolute which made man conceptualize of Godhead in his own image.

The debate between these two position is acrimonious, and no end is in sight. In fact any resolution is impossible, because human logic is bounded by the existence and not the vice verse.

And therefore the meta - chicken and egg question remains unanswered.

However what both agree on is the presence of desire, of man or of Brahma.
This power creates, and gives forms. Nietzsche famously termed this driver as the will. Is it possible that it is not will but something opposite, a sort of anti-matter with enough quarks or strings rotated in certain dimensions to have affinity for matter and on interaction produces order and consciousness.

Ecce Homo

Behold, there goes the biggest enemy of mankind, the one who has sworn the oath of unceasing vendetta against what goes for sound constitution in nature, the breeder of disease and discontent.

What! You can't see that dreaded monster, then take my eyes! Ah, now you see the face of eternal villain, the one who said that "meek shall inherit the earth", who lied that "kingdom of god" is for poor.

Because when he said that he was elevating weakness on pedestal, it was he who consecrated poverty as virtue and atrophied the natural vigour just as Medusa turns everyone to stone with her gaze. He, the opposite of man, weak in mind and body, begotten of void, seeks to remake man in his own image, resentful of form.

That furious yet rank contraption wishes void for man, for he resents man for his ability to create, to bestow purpose, where there was none. It is he who mixes poison in the cup of elixir. Frightful of purpose, he invents nihilism. Shrewd and cunning like all scavengers are, he embellishes the abyss with siren song of love, but it is death, not love, not life that he gives away.The most devastating evil revealed as craving for nothingness.

And it is for you, the warrior, the Arya, to slay this mlechha. Blaspheme against this cult of victim hood, repudiate this creed of emasculation, reject vehemently all satanic verses worshipping poverty as human ideal. Rediscover that power that you posses, that creates civilizations, the will to bring forth form from formless. Eliminate this opiate from the blood, which castrates the virility and saps the human spirit in name of kindness to unfortunate.
Deny moral superiority to wasted and enervated.

Understand this, "meek shall never inherit the earth", the earth is a playground for the strong, earth embraces resolve. It is beholden of vigour, of striving, of potent, of action and of thought. You don't have to knock at the gates of heaven, it is here in your clenched fist, joyously confronting the storms, vanquishing ogres, subjugating underworlds.

That which strangles you is mere web of self-doubt, your freedom is merely a matter of shrugging the web off.
Bask in the sun of human pride and proclaim with head held high

"I do, therefore I exist" .

Monday, March 12, 2007

My contribution to civilization

Yes, yes everyone and his nephew knows that marriages boost economy, so does act of fornication or little toddlers shitting in diapers or teenagers getting pimples, but please! how can anyone talk of trifles like economics when world is faced with such a threatening situation? Unless you have been living under a stone or are a vile free market fundamentalist, by now you must have realized the dire consequences of global warming.
And yet what is being done, nothing my dear fellows ! Even as retired politicians and born again Hollywood actors are heroically trying to save the planet by hopping continents on private jets, we are ignoring the biggest culprit, flatulence ! Yes, friends, farts (human and bovine) contribute one tenth* towards green house gas emission, and hence are to be blamed for polar bears forgetting swimming (and getting stranded on breaking Antarctic ice sheets). Desperate situation calls for desperate measures, and therefore I propose that a "fart tax" be levied and the revenue thus generated be used to subsidize research on Eco-friendly gastronomical innovations . The tax will be both on individuals as well as Hindu joint family, family gatherings being a major source of global warming. It is only by these "out of the box" solutions that we can counter this menace and make planet a better place for children (human and ursine)