Dum. Dum. Dum.
Yep. That's the Jumanji's drum beats whenever any undesirable or unacceptable or risk-sated event is imminent and looming over the horizon like the darkened clouds that screams on the megaphones that it's going to pour its heart out as it cannot hold on to the Godzilla-esque evaporated water anymore.
So, what does Jumanji's foreboding and ominous percussion strikes have anything remotely got to do with truth and opinion?
Before we take the submarine and become the second person to reach the bottom of Antarctica, let's brush through the familiar yet slightly head-scratching basic concepts (For some - Actually, they can be in billions!):
I sincerely hope that you have not merely scanned the presentation (Not created by me) but know and understand enough to apply it in real life as we proceed forwards in the blog.
Let's get started.
"The sun rises in the East and sets in the West".
Elementary school stuff where we have all received 2 marks out of 2 in our Science exams.
Fact, right?
Wrong. Horribly and Terribly.
The sun never rises or sets.
It's just an illusion that we experience it on our Earth due to the planet's constant spin, rotation, and revolution around the sun which also perennially rotates and revolves around itself just like our planets in the solar system that goes around the sun and the Milky Way itself and other galaxies like Andromeda in the vast, expanding, infinitely yet finite Universe
This is precisely what Lord Krishna meant when he well-worded and put it succinctly that "Life is an Illusion" in The Bhagavad Gita.
Some have interpreted it as "Life is a Lie" and others as "Change".
But, when you understand it from Krishna's understanding of the working nature of the reality around us, he has meant that there's more to the viewable Life just like a Magician who saws a person into two on the stage and then gets his/her standing ovation.
Does the magician really split the person as equally or unequally?
No, they don't do it. It's an illusion.
There's more to it than that meets the audience eyes which is essentially the secret behind the trick.
There are tonnes of examples I could have effortlessly brought in for showcasing my point.
Why did I bring in the highly specific example of "sun rising and setting"?
First, To explain that Lord Krishna was unconditionally, unequivocally and unrestrainedly right when he stamped his authority on the way the mysterious forces of life weaves in and out like a needle to a thread on a cloth.
Second, kindly check out and re-understand the line again that I have highlighted in Bold particularly the word that I have Italicised and Underlined.
INTERPRETATION.
That's the key.
Whoever adheres to "Life is a Lie" will form their own school of thought with it and have it as their truth.
Whoever clings to "Change", they take it as their own personal truth.
In actual reality, both the schools of thoughts are only perspectives and opinions (Refer The Fundas again for even more clarity) as they are nowhere close to what Lord Krishna intended when he lucidly articulated "Life is an Illusion".
"Dude...How do you know that's what Krishna really intended"?
If I were you, I will be definitely and without any hesitation asking this question.
The answer is rather simple, direct and straight-forward.
Begins with the word 'Illusion'.
Oxford Dictionary defines and states to it be as "An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience."
All a person has to do is to keep their eyes and ears keenly open to your surroundings and you will find that nature has abounding secrets to either automatically reveal herself or conduct observations and right inferences being meticulously done.
That's also why (thirdly) I had given the incontrovertible and indisputable real-life examples of "Sunrise and sunset" and the "magician" in the beginning itself.
These are beyond reproach, beyond question and can be empirically demonstrated anywhere and anytime.
These are beyond reproach, beyond question and can be empirically demonstrated anywhere and anytime.
Kindly don't bring in the fatuous and doltish argument that how do I know that Lord Krishna ever lived and walked on this planet.
Still, I will give the answer.
You have no solid proof that he did not exist. Likewise, I have no solid proof either that he existed.
But, what I can do is to enunciate a probable realistic situation.
Suddenly, we have an asteroid hurtling towards the Earth and wipes out our planet in a matter of seconds.
Five hundred or Thousand years down the line, the future generation will have no idea that all of us lived in flesh and blood during the year 2018 when the cataclysmic event happened.
Just because the future generation do not how our face looked like or what we ate or how we dressed or the manner in which we thought, does it mean that none of us are alive now and I'm not typing this blog and you are not reading it whenever you are reading it?
That's exactly the case with Lord Krishna too.
Some catastrophic event had transpired which ensured that all traces of his glorious Kingdom and his personal accounts are lost, dead and buried.
In fact, there are reports have surfaced that people had discovered Dwarka under the sea near Gujarat.
I don't know and cannot with much and such certitude as to whether the findings would change in the future or not. But, some of them are from our very own Govt. of India's backed ISRO.
1. ISRO's take
3. From BBC
How does it matter even if Lord Krishna lived or died and "Life is an Illusion" matters and what does it have to do with truth and opinion?
EVERYTHING.
Do go through them at your own leisure:
2. Perspectives
The bottom line is as plain as tasteless water - Survival.
The moment you have two or more than two schools of thoughts, tensions and frictions are sure to fly at top speed between/amongst them like an F1 car around the circuit. Things can take an ugly turn and spiral out of control when the ulterior motive is to reign supremacy over the other. It can most possibly lead to a breach of law wherein a person can commit a heinous act on another in the fury of the instance.
The crux of the Phlegethon problem narrows down to one irrefutable and undeniable fact that most of us don't have the capacity to hold contrasting viewpoints that conflict with our already held beliefs and opinions. Many are happy and like to be cocooned within our own little world as described by our views rather than seeking the truth that is full of surprise and wonder.
By saying this, I am not blaming or saying that they are wrong. It's 'limitedly right'.
If you don't have the capability for acceptance for the existence of something, it's actually difficult to hold two entirely different ideas in your mind as it results in confusion and tension which further creates fear and panic because of the perceived risk and uncertainty thus it leads to a direct threat to one's survival which brings about either a Flight or Fight response.
When it is flight, then there are no issues.
But, when there is a fight, it can once again trigger and incite violence thereby infringing on the law and order and getting caught in the wrong side of the law that is caused by the irrational action sparked off due to having simultaneously not digestible and different viewpoints.
When you have a complete understanding that they are just that - Viewpoints - A slice of the one and whole truth which ought to be known to each and every one.
This is where the vital distinction between truth and opinion play a critical role.
Everyone can have their own personal likes or dislikes - It's the natural inclination - but the single and undisputed truth have got to be standardized across nations and religions as it rises even above cultures as well for peace and harmony not only to maintain the status quo but also to sustain it on an indefinite basis barring regional, state, and national boundaries.
X---To Be Concluded---X
PS:
Now, do you understand why I brought in the 'Jumanji' reference earlier?
Still no?
Okay...If a person doesn't thoroughly comprehend what is an opinion or truth, then there will be undesirable or unacceptable consequences not only for themselves but also for others thereby stirring up the innate 'Fight or Flight' mode - For Survival.
Dum. Dum. Dum.
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