Knowledge

To know is knowledge. To know about what? To know about man, material, etc. But how do we gain knowledge?

Man starts learning since his birth. Scientists have even proved that a baby learns from the days of its mother's womb. To support that statement, we have a mythological story where Abhimanyu learnt his first half lesson about the art of war when he was in her mother's womb Subhadra. It was lord krishna who was telling the story.
Man is a bundle of flesh when he is born. None of our five senses will be working properly. A new born baby's eye sight will be blurr initially. It can notice only dark colors. So is the case with other four senses. The sense of taste starts working the moment baby starts drinking the Milk. Initially baby will not even understand that it is suppose to drink the Milk when it is feeling hungry. Because both Milk and feeling of hungriness is very nave to it. It is here where we first start to accumulate the knowledge. As the baby passes the age, all its senses starts working better and better so is the cognition of knowledge and at the age of 7 they will have their first cut of impression about this world.
Now let us for a moment try to understand how do we learn. Man typically learns through his experiences. When we see an object, the light which falls on the object and reflects, falls on our eyes, and it reaches our brain nerves. It is here where we actually see the object. And if you see it for many times there happens a Synaptic connection which helps you to remember that object. The Eye, which is a sense organ was believed to be the place where man sees the object which was later disproved by other scientists. In the similar fashion we listen, taste, smell and hear. Our mind stores the information as images. That is why it is quick to learn for the children if you show them an object associating the word. That is why they show the image of an Apple in the book. Thus we keep accumulating the knowledge day by day.

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Cause and Effect

"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction", this is newtons third law. I feel this is universal law also because for every cause there is an effect. This world is full of cause and effect. In fact this world itself is cause and effect. There is a reason(cause) for every thing we do (effect). We eat because we feel hungry, isn't it?

There is a scientific and Philosophical angle to it. In science we call it as Cause and Effect and in philosophy we call it as causality. First is the subset of second. I don't think i have to explain about the scientific angle. Lets see about philosophical angel.

Who am I? Where was i before my birth? Where will I go after my death? Who created this world? These are all some of the questions which I used to go through during my teen age.Its difficult to answer. Because neither I have seen life beyond death, nor I have met any one who have seen it. Does it mean it doesn't have any answer? May be yes may be NO.

In the recent days I have been going through Upanishads. I did get quite a few answers.

Cause and effect is the imagination of our mind. Of course mind itself falls in the causation. If you read Mandukya upanishad you will get enough of knowledge on this. If you observe your dream which is nothing but electrical pulse we will understand this world as well. This world is created by our mind. This world comes in front the moment mind is switched my mind. We don't know what happens to this world when we are in deep sleep. We don't realize that there is some thing called world during deep sleep.

I vaguely remember my early 5 to 7 years since my birth. I don't remember things happed right after my birth. I don't remember how was it to see this world for the first time. May be I didn't know what is this world at the time. Like the fish doesn't know that it is in the water until it comes out of it. We learn about this world through our senses. Touch, Smell, Taste, See and Hear. The knowledge about this world is fed to us through these five channels, isn't it? So when we touch some thing an electrical pulse is sent to our mind. In the dream also an electrical pulse is sent to mind when we touch some thing in the dream. Now how can I touch some thing in the dream when dream itself is not real. Hm... now is the time to think about it. I leave you with this thought. Dwelve on it.

Should we build school/hospital instead of Mandir/Masjid in Ayodhya?

Yes, we have to.

From a very long time we have been claiming, “India is a developing country”. I really don’t know how many more years we may take to get the status of Developed Nation. I suppose population is not the problem. It is not utilizing the young talents, a talent about which the whole world is talking about. Surprisingly none of our leaders understand this. Even if they do, their hunger for power does not allow them to do any thing. Building Mandir/Masjid is one such example. For India to become a 'DEVELOPED COUNTRY' we have to stress more on 100% Literacy, Better education and Technological growth But all this is possible when our Leaders get time from handling issues like Mandir/Masjid in Ayodhya.

From our history we learn that our great kings fought for power and religion among them selves to lose to outsiders. Now we the literates are repeating the same thing instead of putting our time and energy in developing the country. Building a school/hospital at Ayodhya would put a hold on Communal riots and make way for our growth. It will be one of the best things, if we can build school/hospital instead of Mandir/Masjid. School is like a machine, which constantly keeps producing the literates. Who knows, we might just get another A.P.J Abdul Kalam from that school.

Though India is secular and every one can fight for his/her religion, it isn’t necessary that we have to fight over constructing a Mandir/ Masjid. Building a Mandir/Masjid at Ayodhya won't help any one. I don't agree with religion heads when they say they are protecting their religion. Which religion are they talking about? The Lord Ram is known for his peace and truth. Why fight in his name? It really makes no sense. Who are we building this Mandir/Masjid for? How can it be of any use to a poor man in Ayodhya? At most he can beg out side the Mandir/Masjid. Can a Mandir/Masjid provide enough food for poor people in either community? Can we get rid of corruption & poverty? No we can't. Then it is so surprising that few people in both the communities have corrupted the minds of entire people in the country. The impact of this issue is so much that even students and corporate talk about building Mandir/Masjid.

As great Bernard Shaw says, “Progress is impossible without change. And those who can not change their mind, can not change any thing”, we need to change the way we think, specially the people who have the authority to change the country. If we keep fighting for trivial issues like this Mandir/Masjid, no wonder we might have to search for another Subhash Chandra Bhose for freedom struggle