Thursday, 20 July 2017

Of cusps and inflections

Of Cusps and inflections

I admit, I was a retard in learning the technique.
That disqualification rewarded me greatly.
During College-days, I opted for English Medium in my studies, not because I foresaw the scope of English in my career, but because I loved the Language. On the other hand, I didn't want to let go the subjects Mathematics and Science. Besides my college-education, I could always study and learn the languages independently.
Even the interest in Mathematics and Science was because of my attraction to the occult and the esoteric, I can now say.
I loved Statics and Dynamics, Optics, because I could sense something far more than the dry definitions and formulas. I could see I wanted to discover the occult and the esoteric in them.
This was the very bent of my mind that took the form of a cusp, or an inflection and other like-wise open-ended curves. I didn't like circle, ellipse or the polygons as much, as I loved the parabola and hyperbola . But the cusps and the inflections fascinated me far more greatly.
Instinctively I knew life is not as much about the closed figures, as is about the cusps and the points of inflection.
I knew and was convinced that all space is compressed in point. And the point is the reality of the individual.
Though the basic elements of Mathematics are still 'undefined' and in a way the whole of this Mathematics is thus reduced to wandering in the concepts only, and nevertheless this is a great escape from the reality that is the individual, as soon as one understands this fact, one enters the unknown and the unknowable, if we could agree upon what do we mean by that term 'unknowable'.
Simply using this term doesn't mean we are aware of its meaning.
This awareness dawns only when we realize that all relative knowledge in terms of concepts is but ignorance of the reality which we are as the individual.
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It took me go through many cups and inflections to attain this reality.
And though 'time' and 'space' are but in mind only, this journey leads one on an eternal voyage into the unknown and the unknowable.
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'Neither time nor space exists for the man who knows the eternal. ... ' 
(Poems and Parables -J.Krishnamurti)
'On an eternal voyage' -Vimala Thakar.
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