Tuesday, November 24, 2020

START A BETTER LIFE - 14 - LESSON 2 PART (V) - RATIONAL THINKERS

 


Rational thinking is difficult. Only a few ‘thinker’ mentality persons do it. Few are gifted with it. Some achieve this with practice, focus and intellect. To think rationally occasionally is difficult. More difficult is to think rationally, every time. Most difficult is to constantly think rationally, while doing all worldly things – throughout the life. Chapter 2 of Bhagwad Gita deals with rational thinking till 38th stanza. For rational thinkers the perspective towards life and world vision is based on questioning and balanced thinking. They think of energy, matter, its transformation. They are ever conscious of the thought of ‘energy is everything’. The one who perceives everything around as energy instead of different forms, differences and divisions is a perfect rational thinker. They don’t see divisions but the energy which links everything. Infact energy is everything.

 

Each of living and non-living in this comprehensible universe and beyond has energy. When energy gets associated with matter, it gets a form. Form is temporary with respect to time. Energy is permanent. Humans therefore should not lament on loss of any form. Loss of form and return to energy is bound to happen, if not today then tomorrow. Energy is eternal. The form which gets destroyed over a period of time cannot be a reason to lament or brood over. So, the rationalists focus only on the energy. They are not affected by any worldly interactions as they find everything very futile and are engrossed in enjoying the energy and experiencing themselves as a part of the energy. Let’s take an example – a lay person perceives an earthen pot as earthen pot, used to store and cool water. Whereas a rationalist though acknowledges it as an earthen pot, knows the truth – that it is nothing but made up of small mud particles or rather it is made up of fundamental particles. In a way it is energy with a form of a pot and that form is temporary.  He uses it as long it is there. When it breaks, the lay person feels bad as he had attached memories with it, he feels it was his, but no longer there and has lost something. Whereas in the same situation, a rationalist, sees the same earthen pot as ‘mud’ before and mud after it broke. For a rationalist, there was no change and therefore, no lament as there was no loss. A rationalist would never feel perturbed for the broken earthen pot nor rejoice when it was not broken. A true rationalist sees no divide only energy everywhere without any division………. Keep reading…………….!!!!!

 

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