SEEING REALITY
We all come in to this world with virtually a clean slate.Cognitively we test the world and understand them in our own way. We learn the language which our parents speak to us and try to pick up the clues those words mean.We communicate using those words and color them with our perception.
Our view of the world is influenced by our perceptions.These perceptions are colored by our surroundings in which we grow up. It could be our parents, our freinds, our teacher etc. Our faith in them in the formative years influences our thought and our beliefs.
Over a period we tend to see reality wearing these multple specs and believe them to be true. These could be the color glass of religion, faith, belief and values imbibed in us by our society, parents ,teacher. Whenever, the reality we perceive clashes with these color glasses we tend to reject the reality or try to rationalise the perception.
But the liberated individual see the reality for what it is and discard the colored glasses. These are the individual who steer the world and its mass in to different direction, some times giving a new meaning to life with which are totally un aware. Knowing these individuals will always be a rewarding experience.
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Reality? What exactly is reality? Is it what we want it to be? or is it really there? Two people look at the same thing and come to two different opinions. Why? It is because we are two different individuals.Perception in perceiving something gets refined in a human being as he grows in his emotional strength. As long as a human being is not emotionally mature, he cannot see any reality. But he may swear that what he has seen is reality but in fact he is seeing what he want to see.
Everyone of us is a victim of this warped thinking, as rightly pointed by Vijay Kumar, either by our upbringing or by other influences in our formative years.
Later on, as we grow physically, our emotional strength also gets sharpened and becomes mature and as we grow we are supposed to perceive many a matter in true reality but not what we want to see.
-sivaramaprasad
When you see the world through the eyes of a liberated or an enlightened man, doesen't that mean that your views are now biased and herded in the direction he is taking you? How does the strain of individuality arise in such a situation? Is'nt that , seeing the world through yet another pair of coloured glasses albeit another colour?
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