Frontiers of Knowledge.

ज्ञा > जानाति, meaning 'to know' in Sanskrit, is the verb-root which turns into 

"knowledge" and "knowing".

"knowledge" is memory and information encoded in the framework of "thought" / words,  while "knowing" is "wisdom" which has the verb-root विद् > विद्यते, वेत्ति, विन्दते, वेदयति, 

which respectively means : 

exists, knows, gains / finds, and learns.

Again, the word 'find' (German > 'finden') is cognate (सज्ञात,सजाति) of the Sanskrit word :

अवग्रहण / ग्रहण

Respectively.

I always loved reading, going through the blogs about the latest developments in :

Science, Medicine, Mathematics, Psychology, and the contemporary and ancient religion.

Yesterday I came across these posts :

1. 5 Reasons Why I left the AI... 

(Alberto Romero, - 

towardsdatascience.com ,

2. bacteria 'shuffle' their genetics ...

(Celia Souque, - April 7, 2021

theconversation-com )

3. Mathematics as Team Sport

(Kevin Hartnett, 

-March 31, 2020,

quantamagazine.org)

4. New Research documents the... 

(Timothy W Jones -

April 07, 2021, the conversation-com)

This is just a brief account of what kind of topics I like to go through, while on the net. 

Because of so many reasons I'm just unable to have and afford a computer of my own.

So far, I always noted these and other such present latest developments are far behind the way Veda and Vedanta deal with various aspects of knowledge,  knowing and wisdom, even what we think is "INTELLIGENCE".

पतञ्जलि clearly and concisely defines "THOUGHT" as  "वृत्ति",

which loosely translated into English could be replaced by the word :

"consciousness".

Obviously, Thought is verily 

"The natural intelligence".

And "Thought" can never transcend it's own frontiers : 

"THE KNOWN".

While wisdom is but a flash of intelligence, it is ever so conditioned / made into a slave by "THOUGHT", that it rarely manifests in its genuine form.

All our latest research is prompted and prodded by "THOUGHT".

I often remember how 

मुण्डकोपनिषद् 

deals with this in terms of :

परा विद्या  

and,

अपरा विद्या .

Then  Gita (श्रीमदभगवद्गीता)

Tells unequivocally :

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन। 

बहुशाखःह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम् ।। ४१

भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयाऽपहृतचेतसाम् ।

व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते ।। ४४

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Still I wonder, deeply feel and anxious where we are heading towards. I sincerely admit, I have no any solution for the present day predicament the mankind has been caught into.

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The One

There is The One,

Without The Other,

A Self alone, 

Knows The Self,

For, knowing is a fact,

No one can refute,

Nor deny.

For, Knowing is the evidence, 

Of Being.

But Being Itself, 

Or, rather the Self alone,

Is verily, The Self only. 

Because if It is not Self, 

Then It is 'other than Self'

Which is contrary to, 

The axiom:

"The Self alone Is."

The Self has neither a beginning,

Nor an end.

All beginning and end happen, 

In Time, 

While Time is,

The Eternal Now, 

Timelessly. 

Like a hole in the space, 

That is Spatial,

Yet beyond space.

Call it Black Hole, 

Or the Stark White Reality. 

Still It Is neither One,

Nor Two or Zero, 

For,  in the absence of 'The Other',

One,  Two,  Zero are just absurd.

--

The Identity (poetry)

Letting go the past, 

Needs letting go the memory,

Letting go the memory,

Needs letting go the recognition,

Letting go the recognition,

Needs letting go the time,

Letting go the time,

Needs letting go the identification.

But letting go the identification,

Is not letting go the identity,

For the identity could never be let gone!

-- 

Artificial Intelligence

A.I. and the Dharma.

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The advanced science tries to explain the manifestation in terms of cause and effect.

Nice. 

So we are supposed to find out or discover why an epidemic like Corona or Plague takes place. 

The scientist discovers the virus that is responsible for that particular kind of disease.

Well.

But then does the scientist try to find out why at all this virus was born or possibly created in some laboratory?

Sanatana Dharma candidly points out that this is because of Adharma only. 

Adharma is simply the behavior contrary to the natural course of life.

Just as every action results in an equal and opposite reaction, whatever that is done contrary to the rule and course of the nature (Dharma) results in a reaction that cancells out or reconciles this action Adharma).

It may be pointed out that fear and greed are not in harmony with the course of nature.

Fear and greed may be an animal response because of in-built inherent self-defence mechanism, and are only of precautionary value. 

Except the man, all the other beings and creatures, sentient and insentient, strictly follow and obey the laws of nature (Dharma) and are not carried by "thought", that is the prerogative of the evolved kind of animals like human beings. 

"Thought" is no doubt a great tool in making the life more happy and comfortable also. 

But the individual (as well as the collective) greed and fear, is the very personal  tendency that enslaves this faculty of "thought" and the logic / reasoning of us.

Therefore there are wars at the level of the  personal and the collective existence.

There is the way of life that is apathetic to the nature as a whole and the man exploits the nature with the utmost cruelty. 

To compensate the balance of natural order, there is why a virus is born.

The virus is quite a living and alive being /  organism. 

It has an intelligence of its own.

That is quite different than the Artificial Intelligence possessed by man.

The Artificial Intelligence that is a result of ignorance of the natural order (Dharma), and this AI is never capable of facing the challenge posed by the virus.

The virus can go on mutating endlessly.

Only when the man becomes intelligent enough so as to see and realize what went wrong in this so-called progress and development of humankind, and how the  Adharma took hold in consciousness, he can shun the same, and restore the natural order (Dharma) of all the things together.

The only relevant question is :

Are we ready and prepared to take up the cudgel?

Or, we are going to cry over the split milk, running hither and thither in fear, anxiety, trepidation, agony and depression...?

That too is a possibility imminent.

--

Who Is I?

The body has its destiny, 

The mind has its own, 

But in Consciousness,

Both the two are known. 

The knower is not the body,

The body is not the knower,

The knower is not the mind, 

The mind is not the knower, 

The body, the mind, the individual,

Have no sight, to say, -of their own,

But appear, disapper in the Light, 

Wherein they are always known.

The body was born, will die too sure, 

The mind is movement, is but caught,

In that Light where they are are thought, 

The two appear and disappear together.

In the absence of one, the other is never.

The Consciousness the light is the support,

Where the two are ever, latent or manifest. 

The Light, Steady, Unbroken, and Timeless,

Reveals them and their time and space.

When the Attention is broght upon there, 

The body-mind, and time-space disappear.

Yet shines, in the Heart, the Light Radiant, 

Within and without, Luminous, Self-Radiant.

The Eternal presence, is its Evidence own, 

For, Who else is there, to say Ihave known!

--

The cakewalk!

Even if not fake, 

God is but no cake! 

And you can never,

Have it, and eat it too! 

Be watchful!

And hurry up! 

If you delay in eating Him, 

He is not going to wait!

He is not going to spare you! 

He would rather devour you up, 

Before you can think,

Of eating Him Up! 

--

On Second Thoughts.

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Even if not fake,

Ego is but no Cake!

And you can never,

Have it, and eat it too!

Be watchful!

And hurry Up! 

If you delay in eating it,

It is not going to wait!

It is not going you spare!

Before you could think,

Of eating it up,

It would rather you devour!

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Ever given up?

Evergiven! 

--

In the Suez Canal,

It was stuck, 

But didn't sink. 

Stranded though. 

Have you ever wondered!

What makes the giant ships stuck?

Had they not ventured, 

Into the narrow straits,

Might not need rescued! 

So look before you leap!

See not only how water is deep, 

But also see, how wide is the stream!

And then for help, 

And then never scream!

Never give up!

Forget your small screen, 

Have as much a bigger one, 

As is your dream! 

--

Holi Greetings!

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Do you ever think!

Poetry / 26-03-2021.

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Do you what!

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Do you ever think, 

How the picture is going to end? 

Do you ever think, 

How long the picture is going to last?

Do you ever wonder, 

Who are the people in the picture? 

Do you ever guess, 

If you know any of them? 

Have you ever thought?

Who is the one,

Watching the picture? 

Have you ever tried, 

To know of him? 

If it has ever,

Occurred to you,?

You were never what, 

That's inferred as you?

Have you ever felt,

Who are they!

Did you ever know, 

Who are you?

No doubt, 

The picture will end, 

No doubt any, 

You can't fend, 

Neither amend, 

The course of time, 

Sans recourse, 

Rhythm or rhyme. 

Still you can see, 

The Screen,

And let it go blank,

When the picture has ended,

And the lights are put on again. 

--

Poetry... The Envy.

What is important? 

Vying or dying? 

Dying or vying?

Vying for dying or,

Dying for vying?

What gives what? 

What is important?

What is portent?

Ultimately?

--

Koo / Coup

The Myanmar situation looks like how 

"Koo"

might have been named, to indicate its role in socialworking netsights. 

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