Thursday, September 22, 2011

The Human Shell

Are we really free? Think for a moment. Are we not held in the dungeons of the Mind? Are we not shackled by the chains of an illusion called truth, reason, morality, and humanism? Have we not since time immemorial caught in the web of what we think is good and bad? Have not our voice been drowned under the declaration of those who led the dead into an underworld,  where everything is so disturbing that consciousness gets left behind somewhere on the path. What is religion? What are petty morals? What is love and does affection really exist? Have we not been since the moment, that the first rays entered our eyes and illuminated the world to us been filled to the very brim by notions that we are not really sure of? Have we not been pre programmed into each and every idea we have? 


Sit in silence and you will hear the tormenting cries of the SELF. Everything in our life is guided by this single word. Don't we strive for things to please the self? In a situation when we have to decide our path on reason, we face two choice's either the one which considers us and the other(the one for which any one of us hardly goes for) which considers all, The Utilitarian View. But wait a second, is the utilitarian not a part of us? Is he free from the consideration of self? Isn't its audacity originating from the capacity of the self? I mean to say that even when we think  that we are keeping ourselves in the background and doing a thing in a transcendental state, are we not in the yoke of the human mind? Does not in this state also we in our boundaries which we believe to be the boundaries of the this world. Just consider any of your so called principles. You stick to it don't you?


Now again you divide yourself into two:one the Subjective Self and other the Objective self. This Objective self of yours which watches over you and criticizes you, whenever you face an invasion on its bulwark ends up completely subduing you as a whole and making you a subject. But what really starts consuming your consciousness is the static state of this objective self. In this state its starts a violence on you as a being. It becomes rigid and becomes agitated even at the slightest hint of change. Anything which restraints change is unnatural and unhealthy for the mind which ultimately goes on to become a slave and to be drowned in tutelage. 


What do they say that they derive themselves from? their history ..right? Is history not just a perception? Dig a little and you will find the carcass of human thought. Is history independent of the human mind? Is it not what they wrote out of their will to enlist us among them? When they were not free how can we even develop the faintest idea that we will achieve freedom and consciousness by looking at them? Is it not only the Self which is the ultimate? Don't we only fool ourselves when we accept something as our own? Is not every Self..... distinct? Don't we face this ever day that even truth has a different definition for all of us? I say that it's only a hoax to believe that one can ever think of anything as acceptable by anyone but the Self? Is it not a fact that it's futile to look for a Self in the other but it's our misfortune that no matter how hard we strive, we end up doing it even when we believe that we are not.


Nothing but only the Self exists and everything else is within this Self. It is only beyond the extremes of our capacity to let go of our shell that is filled by nothing but.....(yes you guessed it right)....the Self.
    

3 comments:

  1. not so clear on which topic i am reading. i am feeling as if a cyclone of thoughts are written down.you have raised some debate questions and some of your question are answered in 2nd year.all in all nice effort just read after you write(as anonymous)it will help you to become a critic of yourself,which will help you.kudos to you for your effort. :D

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  2. your article reminds me of the philosphers who studied existentialism... Some of them endup becoming egomaniacs some even got their tombstone inscribed "the individual"...(i dnt considr u as one of those egomaniac)... Your work is really amazing... Well done... #rerun

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  3. Rohini: thanks for your advice and i appreciate your concern. Looking forward to having a discussion with you on the same.

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