Grammar of Life, Poetry of Living - Santosh Jha (ebook reader screen txt) 📗

As I always very humbly say, the purposed success of a book is not in how many copies it sells and how much money it earns. It is in how many different ways it can excite the potentials of a reader to help optimize her or his innate and acquired potentials. This ‘success’ depends only on you. That is why I insist; here, as you sail through the words; there is no writer, no reader; only Information and potential. You however, are the ‘Media’ of all Successes.

As we talk about Grammar of Life and Poetry of Living in this eBook, it is important that we accept the hypothesis that essentially, grammar of life pertains to infinite ‘ingredients’, which nature, society-culture and our own body-mind make available for us. We need to be masters of the grammar and therefore, must understand in details about ‘ingredients’. The ingredients come from the holistic Field or Landscape of wider external milieus, Sub-Fields of your individuality, localized ecosystems of ambient physical and ideational milieus. These ingredients are what we know as attributes or properties of a Field. Then, there is this processing of information by the two and between the two media of individual and collective consciousnesses, in emergent and cyclically evolving looped interactions. I sum them up as dynamics of the dimensions of 3Cs – Consciousness, Cognition, Causality.

It is a huge tragedy that our consciousness is designed to be very localized. Our consciousness is also value neutral. Means, it does differentiate between good-bad, right-wrong or real-fake. It is simply designed to process whatever Information it gets from whatever sources in whichever milieus. Mass majority of people grow and evolve in hugely restrictive milieus. Their ambient milieus, from which they receive most of their Information since early childhood, automatically shape up their consciousness. Growing up and maturing essentially means – First, we consciously expand our Information landscapes as we know, reality is vast and infinite. As we have talked earlier, ‘ingredients’ of life-living are essentially Information, which must come and get processed by the media of consciousness, from the widest possible domain of the cosmic expanse. Most people have localized consciousness, which processes information or ‘ingredients’ only from ambient milieus of family, society, ethnic group, nationality, etc. Very naturally, their consciousness has very limited cognition and they remain enslaved to unreal-restrictive-fake ideas and idealisms of caste, creed, color, faith, nationalism, et al. As most information an average person gets are usually ‘part’ perspectives or beliefs, they are as bad as fake and unreal information. The greats of humanity have been telling us since thousands of years that this is true and actual poverty of a person. We shall talk about it later.

As we expand our information landscape by consciously acquiring novel and alternative knowledge about the realities, we grew up with, we develop this crucial ability to prune and weed out wrong, half-baked and fake Information from our consciousness. We gradually arrive at holism of information. That is why it is said that it takes the whole village to grow, evolve and mature a child. Society-cultures were designed to supply relevant, right, diverse and even contrasting information to a child to grow him or her truly rich and right. Secondly, we consciously learn to develop this ability to assign our personal and individualistic judgments about which information is good-right-real; as against the prevalent, populist and culturally approved ideas about realities. If we develop this way, our consciousness acquires a novel system of cognition. We can then clearly see and realize, how most of the populist ideas about identities, ethnicities, religion, politics, society, culture, nationalism, gender etc are bad-wrong-fake and a product of restrictively localized consciousness and cognition. We can clearly feel and realize, we are also only Information and Fields and the only identity, with which we must align and identify with is cosmic information and universal reality. Rest of all identities and labels on individuality are unreal, fake, misleading and restrictive. This hypothesis is not new. It is almost 3000 years old as ancient Indian philosophy has described in details about it. Modern science has cleared whatever mist was there.

Human life and living is part and parcel of only singular reality of infinite universe. Everything is Information and all constituents and parts, forming this infinite plexus and system of Information, including humans, have only one identity – We are Fields, Landscapes, Information; within the colossal reality of infinite cosmos. This awareness is maturity. The practice of this reality is actually being alive. Only alive can understand grammar of life and poetry of living. Thousands of years back, Indian philosophy coined the reality as – ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam’. This Sanskrit term means; the whole world is one family and all living beings are relatives.

When we become aware of and internalize the reality of life-living, aligning it not only with local-ambient Information but cosmic and holistic Information, which is beyond everything that we have known and accepted so far; then only we can have the consciousness that shall lead us to novel and alternative cognitions and experiences. These novel experiences shall enrich our lives and make us truly successful and wealthy. These novelties of experiences become possible only when we know and accept that our consciousness; this sense of ‘I’ or subjective me, is like a mirror. It is a media, which is neutral like a mirror. The mirror shall show us what we put in front of it. It cannot show an apple, if we place a mango in front of it. Our consciousness also shows us the reality, which our milieus feed it with. Our consciousness has the potential to show us the realities of the cosmos and even beyond. We only kill its true potentials by restricting information to it only from a very small and localized milieu. Knowledge and its internalization open up and expand the milieus and it aligns us with the vastness of Information in the wider landscape of the cosmos. Larger and wider the Information landscape, better and greater is the potential of consciousness to create realities of novel and alternative experiences to us. This alone is growing up and getting mature. It saves us from the definitive slavery of localized ambient milieus and their restrictive worthiness. This alone is true and real richness and wealth. It truly is being alive.

More important is the fact that all these information as ‘ingredients’ are processed by our brain plexuses to create different shades of probable realities for us. There are huge and complex plexus of neurochemical and neuroelectrical mechanisms and processes, which participate in processing of information. When we talk of consciousness, the idea of self, ‘I’ or subjective sense of me; we need to understand and accept that it is a collective-cooperative-emergent entity of these massive mechanisms and processes. Therefore, each of these mechanism and process is also ‘I’ or at least very much a part of self or Consciousness. When we accept our consciousness as media of everythingness; we need to accept this holism of emergent consciousness and ‘parts’ of ‘I’ or self, which we referred to as mechanisms and process within our body-brain systems. We need to ‘own’ and accept cognizance of all ‘parts’; leave nothing to be mishandled by our unconscious-subconscious self and always consciously work towards assimilating and integrating all part selves into holism of singular consciousness of ‘I’.

That is why understanding the structure and functions of brain as well as our body, in its holism is core knowledge to unravel the magic of ingredients. It is important not only for unraveling and deciphering of consciousness but also for larger health, vitality and wellness. You already know how growing awareness about our body-mind realities has improved the life-expectancy and overall health of people. Fortunately, modern science has achieved great insights and knowledge into the brain-realities as neuroscience, in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence (AI), evolutionary and molecular biology breakthroughs has unraveled huge lots of body-brain functioning. The breakthroughs in the field of molecular biology have made even average person better aware about his or her bodies and diseases. Unfortunately, however, mass majority of common women and men have not been exposed to the contemporary scientific knowledge. Tragically enough, mass majority of humanity still remain slaves of old, archaic and now obsolete faith-based and populist perceptional realities of self, consciousness and cognition.

Moreover, the ingredients themselves are not the end attainments as, the poetry of living comes as ‘emergence’; made possible in processes of togetherness, assimilation and integration of the ingredients. The trouble is that much of the Grammar of Life can be easily known and understood as the contemporary knowledge about neuroscience and other fields like artificial intelligence, molecular biology et al are easily and freely available. However, the Poetry of Living involves this very critical but exclusively personal ingredient of Awareness, its internalization and holistic usage to process out integration and assimilation of myriads of elements (information) in internal and external milieus. Many people have the knowledge of Grammar but very few can create Poetry. This happens as they are good at ingredients but not as good and successful at processes. Therefore, we also need to be geniuses of the ‘processes’.

At the very outset, we need to understand and accept what is the true Reality of the humanly designed ideas of Success and Richness. We all want to be rich and successful but almost always ‘ape’ the populist and dominant available ‘benchmarks’ of societal and cultural appropriateness. Mass majority of people subconsciously follow ‘Perceptions’ and seldom care to test their validity, veracity and holistic utility in actuality of reality. In life-living; we always face with this classical dualism of two dimensions of Reality – Perceived and Actual. Since many thousand years, all ancient philosophies of all shades from all corners of human civilizations and cultures have been telling us that true success and richness of life-living is not in money, power, fame and consumption. It is in quantitative and qualitative abundance of probabilistic experiences of myriad shades and hues of Realities. Our brain creates a mind consciousness for us, which is genius of information processing. Information is infinite and therefore, there are infinite shades and hues of emergence of experiences of realities, which emanate and evolve out of the melodious and harmonious processing of information in Field or Landscape of Consciousness. There are gold and diamond mines, which everyone would love to own but very few of us are interested in owning and quarrying the mines of experiences, available for all, full of real gold and diamonds of cognitive brilliances.

This richness of diversities of experiences, our consciousness has the potential to create for us, is true success as it keeps growing and nobody can take it away from us. Money, power, fame and consumption are not only ephemeral, temporary, corrupting and susceptible to pilferage and loot; they also do the worst harm by blocking the journey of richness of experiences. With money, power, fame and consumption; we actually stop the journeys of our potentials. We stop journeying and obsessively and singularly focus on protecting and sustaining them. We actually hoard solitary experience of consumptive luxurious joyfulness by obsessively and singularly pursuing money, power and fame and in turn, kill the prospects of true richness of acquiring different shades and hues of other Beautiful Experiences. We become slaves to the Singular Causality of only one experience of opulence. We thrive in one dimension of material abundance and earn the penury of blocking multidimensionality of vast shades of experiences; mostly intangible.

This is actually the worst poverty; as all philosophies, spiritualism and now modern science have been telling us loud and clear. Ancient Oriental philosophy has likened this ‘Ultimate Poverty’ with itch. Everyone loves scratching an itch as it gives instant orgasmic joy. However, only few seconds later this joy vanishes and leaves bloody scars, which pains for hours. This finality of ‘Itch-Joyfulness’ is what has been referred to as Ultimate Poverty, which money, power, fame and consumptive joyfulness ends up