THE MILLENIUM THAT EVER RECEDES
It is foolish to imagine that the world will be all good one day. Such a conception precludes the idea of an absolute good within relative dualism where contrasts coexist to provide for the relativity of life. Perspectives change with personal and collective evolution. So, what earlier was construed as good is now interpreted as not so good after all and the values attached to things keep altering with the flow of time. This relative evaluation of things and events does not allow for the sustenance of anything perfectly good and permanently so within the ambit of phenomenal life. Moreover, the withdrawal of energy from one point of the universe to fulfil a certain condition of apparent goodness somewhere is compensated by the reverse production of wickedness somewhere else by the very paucity of energy arising out of the creation of the good. In other words, attributes ever pair up in contrasts to come into being and all readjustments made to them yet keep the summation of attributes constant in their opposition and maintain a delicate dynamic equilibrium between good and evil.
It is puerile then to assume on imaginative grounds that humanity is progressing to the millenium and that social improvements will produce at its highest state of attainable perfection an order of humanity that never commits itself to evil of any sort and that good, absolute and perfect, will in stability dwell to bless humankind with its best fruition. Such a state of affairs can never be as the dual syndrome in opposite mode cannot be done away with any amount of improvement of society. The absolute good remains, thus, an ideal to be aspired for, a cherished end ever in sight but never quite attained even as water is not come by in the pursuit of a mirage in the desert sand. Man must travel from a tragedy of errors to a comedy of the same owing to evolved understanding of life but can never quite do away with the life of this duality of opposite attributes and their relative evaluations, shifting and drifting on the sea of unending undulations. An absolute good, thus, remains unattainable and not attained in material terms, and human society, despite utmost efforts in improvement, continues to be characterised by the dual throng of good and evil in relative proportions and relative estimations.
Written by Sugata Bose
It is foolish to imagine that the world will be all good one day. Such a conception precludes the idea of an absolute good within relative dualism where contrasts coexist to provide for the relativity of life. Perspectives change with personal and collective evolution. So, what earlier was construed as good is now interpreted as not so good after all and the values attached to things keep altering with the flow of time. This relative evaluation of things and events does not allow for the sustenance of anything perfectly good and permanently so within the ambit of phenomenal life. Moreover, the withdrawal of energy from one point of the universe to fulfil a certain condition of apparent goodness somewhere is compensated by the reverse production of wickedness somewhere else by the very paucity of energy arising out of the creation of the good. In other words, attributes ever pair up in contrasts to come into being and all readjustments made to them yet keep the summation of attributes constant in their opposition and maintain a delicate dynamic equilibrium between good and evil.
It is puerile then to assume on imaginative grounds that humanity is progressing to the millenium and that social improvements will produce at its highest state of attainable perfection an order of humanity that never commits itself to evil of any sort and that good, absolute and perfect, will in stability dwell to bless humankind with its best fruition. Such a state of affairs can never be as the dual syndrome in opposite mode cannot be done away with any amount of improvement of society. The absolute good remains, thus, an ideal to be aspired for, a cherished end ever in sight but never quite attained even as water is not come by in the pursuit of a mirage in the desert sand. Man must travel from a tragedy of errors to a comedy of the same owing to evolved understanding of life but can never quite do away with the life of this duality of opposite attributes and their relative evaluations, shifting and drifting on the sea of unending undulations. An absolute good, thus, remains unattainable and not attained in material terms, and human society, despite utmost efforts in improvement, continues to be characterised by the dual throng of good and evil in relative proportions and relative estimations.
Written by Sugata Bose
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