We as life forms living on Earth don’t even consume 1% of the whole cosmos by any sense; yet we experience and feel not the Earth, wind, or fire but the whole of the universe with our intelligence, mind, and ego that sometimes the Universe looks small and measurable to our understandings. Now human understanding could be subjective through impressions of a life that we live in making us experience downtrodden or opulent states, and one thing is clear to me that both opulent and downtrodden states are the features of a world that we live in and not the creation of any human hands. Somebody asked me what this world is for any human being, and a dictum in Sanskrit emerged in my mind, it echoed “yad drishtua tat lokah” which means what is seen or perceived for any living entity that becomes his world. Take an elephant for example, if it dwells in a forest its world is the forest; in a temple, it experiences a different world and in a circus a completely different world, what was subjective was the circumstances. Likewise in a society, a shudra experiences a world of circus, a Vaishya is in the factory lifting heavy things, a Kshatriya is practicing his arms and a Brahmin is in the temple studying and exercising Vedic literature. They all might be living in the same society but their universes are completely different from one another. When one associates labor with the sun he is a shudra, when one sees profit and opportunity in it he is a Vaishya, when one sees immense strength in the sun he is a Kshatriya, and when one sees a god charioted by Aruna driven by 7 horses in the sun he is a Brahmin. My world would be either of light or darkness depending upon the attitude that we are willing to follow. We might be a speck of dirt on the planet and yet if we call out hollow brave words escaping from our worldly duties and tasks we might get categorized to the likes of donkeys by the learned and wise.
There is a rationing of universes
to this world of which great personalities matter that with their broadened
state of minds have sent currants or bolts when the normal man is like a ripple
of a grain of sand thrown in the ocean considering the vastness of the world
that we live in. The matter of fact is that most people out of ego don’t live
in a Universe at all, they are lower than Shudras who see through stomachs only
and make the universe and its divinity and magic perish for their pangs of
hunger. The problem with the present age of Kali-yuga is that the common and
the privileged alike are looking for common faces to follow, they feel immense
happiness in mundane things in life and sanctify common things for a universal
living on the planet.
In the course of history man has
found so much attention and importance from himself that he now believes a
nation is his construct when in actuality every nation in this world are a
construct of Earth of which man has divided amongst himself in a dialogue with
his caste, color, and creed and in a note of irony he communicates only
equality amongst one another when the truth is that the very foundation of a
nation on the face of the earth is by dissent and dissent only; dissent of language,
tastes, opinions, and preferences. The truth is that every nation stands for a
portion of Earth which its population eats to find simple and silly objectives
for a standard living procedure code and to find both differences and indifferences
amongst the human race. The fact is that we don’t own any of the lands, cattle, or oceans that we set our foot upon but they are the ones who accommodate,
nourish, and house us; a meal and a lesson that man has ignorantly skipped amongst
his millions of chores.
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