It's my life, ... or is it?

Was reading Schroedinger. Came across some views from Sagan and Penrose in some book reviews, views on their attempts to define ‘life’, and what ‘evolution’ with its different dimensions could mean. Read briefly about experiments showing altruism in robots. Was listening to Ashwini Bhide Deshpande singing Kabir - ‘Lagan bina jaage na nirmohi… ‘ and at a point she/he says ‘hum to rehete Raam bharose..’ then concluding ‘Guru bina mukti na hoi’ (‘Gu’ meant darkness and ‘ru’ meant destruction. Guru was one who removed darkness of ignorance with the light of knowledge). Kabir lived such a life, of detachment, but with such knowledge and more importantly of great wisdom.

And there it struck. As human intelligence, knowledge and wisdom have evolved, we see people have said similar things about ‘god’ at different times, though they did not all make references to ‘god’.

 

I know, I am risking a lot here, possibly of sounding incoherent and of being judged. Every time I have to get into a discussion about ‘god’, I start on a premise that ‘god’ is thought of, understood, interpreted, believed and discussed differently by different people. It is hard to be perfectly coherent to one another. In one philosophical view, we all represent different worlds, you see!

 

Anyway, I am risking losing the chain of thoughts (and possibly breaking yours too). So what I wanted to say, when I started writing this, was – god lives in the pursuit of knowledge, and perhaps there is an element of ‘faith’ there. But I do not see god in faith without the inquisitiveness.

 
It does not all happen on one evening. But all those different things could make so much sense in one instant. It was a delightful evening. It brought me back to my blogs.

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