After undergoing a tiresome brain consuming 5 day interview at Air Force Selection Board(AFSB) Varanasi,I'm finally back to Delhi and really it was a once in a lifetime experience.I'll describe the entire experience but on a separate post.This is about the self reflection and contemplation immediately following the interview procedure.As a debutant,I was excited that I'll meet so many new people,get to discuss a lot of ideas and I was not disappointed in this regard.
We all put ourselves on top whenever we are making decisions.That is perfectly logical as the decisions we make,has the most immediate bearing on ourselves.So we have to think about ourselves before anyone else.I get confused for a little bit while making these kind of decisions.First of all,by denial of a permanent self,we imply that whatever we do is ultimately a process in between a infinite chain of events so in a way it is all interconnected and hence the self has a little or no control in deciding the outcomes.So all it comes down to is that,the self is too unimportant to make decisions and we should try whatever is within our reach and never worry about the outcomes,as we are not in control.
Perfect,if we think this way and this is why we emphasize so much on renunciation and selflessness in our conduct.Now all of us have been provided,minds,so that we can make judgments within our realms.Of course the mental ability varies from person to person and we as humans reward those with higher mental ability.This is why top generals or even people working at highest levels of governments or corporations are expected to make better judgments that anyone else and this is the reason why we have so much outrage whenever some top official gets arrested for some criminal act.We as a society work this way,we put human mind on top of anything else,but I feel the human mind is too tiny to have an effect on the workings of nature.
We are nothing but genetically programmed creations of nature with little minds of our own,using which we can enhance our chances of survival on this planet with the limited resources we have been provides.Yes our vision,sound,smell,taste as well as touch sensors are way below some little two feet animals,but our mind is way intelligent that them.This is why we dominate this planet.And this is why we have philosophy,sciences or even God.But does it seem logical that having this much amount of power,we try to project ourselves as masters of the universe?It was never made for us to play around.We do not know anything about it and we probably won't.It is beyond our tiny minds to comprehend.We do not know our backyard,that is the earth and we are talking about settling humans a 100 light years away!
Now coming to results then.So if our mind is too tiny how does it account for that the decision made by it can have an effect on the working of the nature?Never.There has been instances when a person was held accountable for a million human deaths.But does the nature care?There are 7 billion people like us,who cares if a few million get killed fighting among themselves!Nature won't.On an individual level then,I think it is just a delusion that we can make decisions for ourselves.Even though it might appear,and frankly it happens to me as well,that we think we decided our fate but if careful contemplation is done,there were a lot of factors in production of a result and of course our effort was one of them,surely not the only one!
This is why we are taught never to worry about our results.We are not the ones making decisions.We have some control over only the effort part that too only a little bit.Sometimes there might be a dizzy feeling just before making one of the important tasks of our lives and everything gets spoiled.So here too it is not sure that we can make the right effort at the right time.There is an amount of uncertainty involved,certainly.Then if we make the right effort there are a 100 other factors which play their part so that we can get the right results.
Now,here coming to the hundreds of unknown factors part,we are generally worried about them.We often think,hey I made the right decision,put in the right effort,everything was fine and yet no success!There arises frustration.And then the so called 'experts' come into picture.They will try to objectify all these unknown factors as some planets and stars,some will try to do it with numbers,some will blame luck,some will load your fingers with rings of various stones and yes there are a host of other weird persons.They make money over our worries,first by worrying us more and when we are in the trap,offer some stupid ridiculous advice to get better results.Dress in black clothes,take some oil,put in in the tree and feed some buffaloes!!!And you will succeed.I hope you understand what I mean.
There is no control over the results.Till today,we do not know what is the perfect combination to get perfect results.We can only have control of the effort we put in and then sit down calmly and wait for the results.
We all put ourselves on top whenever we are making decisions.That is perfectly logical as the decisions we make,has the most immediate bearing on ourselves.So we have to think about ourselves before anyone else.I get confused for a little bit while making these kind of decisions.First of all,by denial of a permanent self,we imply that whatever we do is ultimately a process in between a infinite chain of events so in a way it is all interconnected and hence the self has a little or no control in deciding the outcomes.So all it comes down to is that,the self is too unimportant to make decisions and we should try whatever is within our reach and never worry about the outcomes,as we are not in control.
Perfect,if we think this way and this is why we emphasize so much on renunciation and selflessness in our conduct.Now all of us have been provided,minds,so that we can make judgments within our realms.Of course the mental ability varies from person to person and we as humans reward those with higher mental ability.This is why top generals or even people working at highest levels of governments or corporations are expected to make better judgments that anyone else and this is the reason why we have so much outrage whenever some top official gets arrested for some criminal act.We as a society work this way,we put human mind on top of anything else,but I feel the human mind is too tiny to have an effect on the workings of nature.
We are nothing but genetically programmed creations of nature with little minds of our own,using which we can enhance our chances of survival on this planet with the limited resources we have been provides.Yes our vision,sound,smell,taste as well as touch sensors are way below some little two feet animals,but our mind is way intelligent that them.This is why we dominate this planet.And this is why we have philosophy,sciences or even God.But does it seem logical that having this much amount of power,we try to project ourselves as masters of the universe?It was never made for us to play around.We do not know anything about it and we probably won't.It is beyond our tiny minds to comprehend.We do not know our backyard,that is the earth and we are talking about settling humans a 100 light years away!
Now coming to results then.So if our mind is too tiny how does it account for that the decision made by it can have an effect on the working of the nature?Never.There has been instances when a person was held accountable for a million human deaths.But does the nature care?There are 7 billion people like us,who cares if a few million get killed fighting among themselves!Nature won't.On an individual level then,I think it is just a delusion that we can make decisions for ourselves.Even though it might appear,and frankly it happens to me as well,that we think we decided our fate but if careful contemplation is done,there were a lot of factors in production of a result and of course our effort was one of them,surely not the only one!
This is why we are taught never to worry about our results.We are not the ones making decisions.We have some control over only the effort part that too only a little bit.Sometimes there might be a dizzy feeling just before making one of the important tasks of our lives and everything gets spoiled.So here too it is not sure that we can make the right effort at the right time.There is an amount of uncertainty involved,certainly.Then if we make the right effort there are a 100 other factors which play their part so that we can get the right results.
Now,here coming to the hundreds of unknown factors part,we are generally worried about them.We often think,hey I made the right decision,put in the right effort,everything was fine and yet no success!There arises frustration.And then the so called 'experts' come into picture.They will try to objectify all these unknown factors as some planets and stars,some will try to do it with numbers,some will blame luck,some will load your fingers with rings of various stones and yes there are a host of other weird persons.They make money over our worries,first by worrying us more and when we are in the trap,offer some stupid ridiculous advice to get better results.Dress in black clothes,take some oil,put in in the tree and feed some buffaloes!!!And you will succeed.I hope you understand what I mean.
There is no control over the results.Till today,we do not know what is the perfect combination to get perfect results.We can only have control of the effort we put in and then sit down calmly and wait for the results.
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