A WASTE OF TIME?

A WASTE OF TIME?

Reading the irrational and deflected responses to my posts or plain exhibition of passive piety to many such, I wonder whether writing anything at all on Facebook is a waste of time or not. People adhere to irrational cultural codes, traditional trappings wherefrom they view the world in a refracted way that can scarce lead them to see or confront truth. Swamiji had lamented that it would take humanity thousands of years to throw up an adequate number of rational men who could confront truth face to face and perchance peep into its inner recesses. Spirituality is a lot of faith bound in unreason and verboseness that needs stripping to its bare essentials so that the essence which is transcendental Truth may be evident. But that is not the case as worldliness goes by the name of education, culture, civilisation and religion. Democracy and the advancement of science have laid open the doors of the common man with all his intellectual shortcomings to a plethora of data and misinformation that lie undigested in his untrained mind. Worse still is the fact that people pertain more to fiction than fact, an inertial system that continues to afflict the slow-learning nervous organism that man is. It will take millenia before humanity enters the millenium of enlightenment en masse, so to say, when ideas will be examined on the basis of reasonable merit and not as per convenience of faith. The blind eye does not see but imagines an altered description of truth along blind alleyways that bar progress. The human brain may be limited in its access to Truth, perhaps, utterly handicapped in apprehending it in totality, being its very product and, hence, ordered to partial understanding of it. But the brain is what we have in appreciating and apprehending whatever we can and it may not be bettered by dogmatic assertions of unreasonable faith. I am not discounting in any way the higher intuitive understanding stemming from the enlightenment of the entire nervous system by the truly spiritual path of yoga which though incorporates the brain and fulfils its findings and never contradicts it.

Written by Sugata Bose