Good day, all!
I had mentioned this subject using the term idol-breaking elsewhere before. Here, I want to go a little bit deeper. Here, I want to bring in another aspect: human intelligence. Let me state that I have never undergone an IQ test, and I have no idea about my intelligence. I always go with my instincts and make necessary corrections along the way, using whatever intelligence I have. More like what Malcolm Gladwell had written in his book 'blink'. By the way, for humans, I believe that intelligence is not a separate faculty and it works in tandem with so many others. And it may not be possible for human beings to use only one faculty at a time. It is more like sensory perceptions: all your organs are active, and you may concentrate on one, but at the same time others are also active.
Here I would like to introduce something which Sadhguru says about intelligence, and that is the main reason for this title. He says that intelligence is a tool to dissect, and it cannot stitch back the dissected one. I strongly disagree with this concept, as intelligence is a mind-based process, and its activities may not be compared to actions pertaining to the physical level. In this particular case, I am disagreeing with something Sadhguru said, but I am not causing any harm to him. It may just be a difference in perspective. Say, even his idea of fuzzy logic was questioned by me earlier somewhere. Also, what I said about Sree Krishna- his statement that whatever happened is for good, what is happening is for good, and what is going to happen is also for good. I felt that it was some sort of anticipatory bail for me. He depicted too many people and many things happened around him as bad and killed and destroyed many. But I am not against Krishna and still adore him a lot. By the way, if you want to keep some peace of mind, it is the ultimate mantra you can follow. I break idols using my intelligence and all other faculties of my mind and body, and rebuild them after I have a grasp of what they are. As aware of an unreachable absolute, there is nothing good or bad, and dealing with the past- what happened then and what it led to now makes you reach some conclusions valid only for now.
Another phrase is burning bridges, which many crooked people follow. A lot of scriptures were burnt along the way by many, I believe. Never burn a bridge you crossed or not, as you may have to retrace back to where you were if needed. Extrospection and introspection, both have burnt many bridges, apparently. Like modern science has made real-world cognisance die or taken it to another level for the commons, and common people are trapped, I feel, maybe including me!
More on this later...
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