AN ERROR IN JUDGEMENT AFTER ALL

AN ERROR IN JUDGEMENT AFTER ALL 

Man is less than what his admirers imagine him to be and more than what his detractors deem him to be. His is a middling status that keeps changing as he evolves with experience and adaptation. His is a story in progress whose final chapter has not yet been written. Each life reveals a phase of this evolving progression and estimation of his status keeps changing. It is a horizon phenomenon where the boundary keeps shifting and man reveals unto himself his deepening reality. In this cyclical progression of life in coloured bands of varying frequencies man advances towards the goal where spectral changes are no more and he stands free of all modifying modes in his singular Self. He is now beyond all estimation even as devotees flock around him to deify him and now cut him down to a divine size of imaginary attributes while his critics now altering stance heap harshness on him from their disjoint defences. Thus he forever eludes proper understanding, 'men choosing to interpret things after their fashion' and never admitting a dispassionate view of his being in all its sweep and stealth. Even the historian constructs a caricature after his own style or school of thinking, the philosopher comprehending him in a manner that suits his particular perspective on life and reality. Man, phenomenal man, pilgrim of this revisited earth, experiencer of the sweet and bitter fruits of life again and again, traveller in this terrain of light and shade, remains partially known in slices and strata and never quite comprehended in totality. Admirers adore, enemies revile, the indifferent ignore as shifting man like shifting sand changes shape and form to elude the estimation of all.

This world is full of strife on account of differing loyalties to prophets and divine incarnations but all such are based on this refracted vision of truth. It were better to suspend judgement about others after all and ourselves evolve towards the goal that is freedom. 

Written by Sugata Bose