We may make mistakes while making
innocent efforts for our survival. We may view things not in their true forms.
We may use a snake erroneously viewing it as a rope to tie a bamboo to ensure
that a temporary roof does not fall. We can not only learn to avoid repetition
of our mistakes, but also can learn many things about our own safety and
utility of different types of snakes for maintenance and sustenance of the natural
environment. Our senses are prone to be influenced by the illusory character of
many things. But, our intellect has the ability to sift out what is real from
what is not so real or illusory. We may make mistakes because we are human; and
we can also rectify them because we are human.
The other picture of human life is a
bit gloomy. One may invent a simple and easy method to convert living snakes
into pieces of very strong ropes to avoid the drudgery of making ropes through
known methods. Unfortunately, the man has the cruel ability to become a danger
to the nature by wrongly utilizing the enormous potential the nature possesses
for ensuring much comfort and convenience for his physical survival. The man has the ability to adopt a belief
system that views everything to have a potential to lend him more comfort, more
convenience and much freedom from physical drudgery.
All living being other
than human beings ‘enjoy’ their natural instincts of efforts and rests; the man
doesn’t. Repelled by his senses, the man runs away from the drudgery of life
towards the glamour and glitter of the fun in life, the objects of much
attraction for his senses. While being in this process, if his intellect
convinces him that he is intelligent enough to distinguish between the reality
and illusions, he may develop a ‘persistent belief in falsehood’. The word used
by the psychologists for ‘persistent belief in what is false’ is ‘delusion’.
They consider it as a mental disorder. Delusions, in this sense, cannot open up
any fresh avenues to explore the truth in things. Delusions have destructive
potential.
Being aware that our senses are prone
to be influenced by the illusory character of anything that is physical is
good. Rectifying the errors we make due to our misunderstanding is better.
Persistently working for becoming more aware of the limitations of our senses
and trying to know the truth in things is the best we can do. If there are any
avenues to explore constructive and fulfilling things in life they open up when
we humbly realize our limitations, rectify our mistakes and try to find the
truth in things.
[This series is
being presented by Promod Kumar Sharma, who has also authored “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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