The Bhagawad Gita says that knowledge will make a person realize that the world is Maya. Only after this realization can one understand the true nature of the world and move beyond it. I completely agree with this idea.
Broadbased, most people use one [or more] of three ways to interpret life, the universe and everything. This is true, even if they 'chill' i.e. don't take the bother of spelling out what their philosophy is. The main philosophies are:
- Religion
- Science
- Spirituality
Religion is pretty easy to get over. There are 2 ways to do this. Either you can study Spirituality and realize that religion is just a 'localized' attempt to implement spirituality. In this process, you reject religion. Or you can go deep into religion by trying to understand it deeper, which will lead you to the underlying spirituality. For eg. understand what Jesus meant when he said 'the kingdom of God is within you', or 'understand what Prophet Muhammed was trying to convey in the Kuran', or understand what Buddha meant when he said 'Desire is the root of all evil'. You get the idea... Either way Religion is a very superficial philosophy and easy to discard as a way of life.
Science is a different animal. The fundamental problems with science are 2:
- It was created by very smart people. If your intellect has to compete with the intellects of Aristotle, Ptolemy and Einstein, you need to be atleast as smart as them to constructively question their ideas and reject / move beyond them. That probably means an IQ of 160+.
- It is a very complicated logic trap. The way I got my head around this was to keep seeing inconsistencies in the scientific approach and theories. Then I grouped all the inconsistencies and was trying to search for a way out of them. I finally found it after 13 years.
Today I view science as a branch of study, like a scientist views Chemistry. It is a very small branch of study and pretty insignificant. Today I believe Astrology is more important than Science in the grand scheme of things!!
Spirituality is the right way to understand the world. Once you go deep into it, you find the ultimate objective of life. Anyone who is chasing this objective is who I call a seeker. Those who are on this path will understand this. The point I am trying to make to seekers in this post is that if you probe hard enough, you will realize that this is the right path!! So be confident and move forward.
From my next post, I will start posting about Step 3 (refer my previous post for details)...
