Now-a-days I am reading more about Osho & Jiddu Krishnamurti, thanks to my friend Ashish Goswami. They are known to be enlightened ones and they all say same thing, but in different ways, depending on their past history. I particularly like krishnamurti, because he talks straight. everything as straight and frank as possible. Tell you what, they say true things. I admit that i had to agree almost everything they said. Basically what they say is - the truth is that everything just is; and the cause of all suffering is either our ignorance about it or our resistance and effort not to accept it.
But i don't want to talk much about what they said in detail. What i want to share is my doubts about their theory. There are many. No, none in their sayings and talks but outside that.
What is life, again? but this time scientifically. As we know, everything happening out there in universe, from a small chemical reaction to the nuclear fusion in stars, is because of the very tendency of everything to become stable, to decrease its energy somehow. We know physics laws explain what happens, but why that happens? the answer of why is this. to decrease energy, to be stable. Now life. In my biology textbook it said life is nothing but a constant struggle of an entity to not enter into a stable, less energy state. I mean its against the very general law of whole else universe. In this way life is extraordinary. It always wants to escape from being stable. we all are just result of this very nature of life.
But isn't it resistance... escape from what is? effort to not be what is? Resistance is in the very nature of life. its a fact, isn't it? So is this whole life suffering? Not only humans but the whole living...animals, trees, bacteria...every DNA & RNA. They say our mind, our memory, the neurons in our brain are the real evil. It works based on the past, not the present. But the DNA too is a storing element. It too should be evil. So the whole life is nothing but suffering. Only the non-living things accept what is. Only after death one can get freedom. This is my first doubt - it it true?
There is another doubt. They say that one can be free only after the understanding, the awareness of the truth - the acceptance of what is. They say that there should be no beliefs, no desires, no effort to change what is. But then how is all gonna work? There is Aeroplane only because there was a desire to fly. We will eventually go into the stone age. And even there its not gonna stop. Desires are there too. In the end, we have to transform into non-livings. I think there cannot be a society according to what they say. And thats the problem, a practical limitation.
But i don't want to talk much about what they said in detail. What i want to share is my doubts about their theory. There are many. No, none in their sayings and talks but outside that.
What is life, again? but this time scientifically. As we know, everything happening out there in universe, from a small chemical reaction to the nuclear fusion in stars, is because of the very tendency of everything to become stable, to decrease its energy somehow. We know physics laws explain what happens, but why that happens? the answer of why is this. to decrease energy, to be stable. Now life. In my biology textbook it said life is nothing but a constant struggle of an entity to not enter into a stable, less energy state. I mean its against the very general law of whole else universe. In this way life is extraordinary. It always wants to escape from being stable. we all are just result of this very nature of life.
But isn't it resistance... escape from what is? effort to not be what is? Resistance is in the very nature of life. its a fact, isn't it? So is this whole life suffering? Not only humans but the whole living...animals, trees, bacteria...every DNA & RNA. They say our mind, our memory, the neurons in our brain are the real evil. It works based on the past, not the present. But the DNA too is a storing element. It too should be evil. So the whole life is nothing but suffering. Only the non-living things accept what is. Only after death one can get freedom. This is my first doubt - it it true?
There is another doubt. They say that one can be free only after the understanding, the awareness of the truth - the acceptance of what is. They say that there should be no beliefs, no desires, no effort to change what is. But then how is all gonna work? There is Aeroplane only because there was a desire to fly. We will eventually go into the stone age. And even there its not gonna stop. Desires are there too. In the end, we have to transform into non-livings. I think there cannot be a society according to what they say. And thats the problem, a practical limitation.
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