Decision / Indecision

The Feature Perpetual. 

-----------------©-----------------

Genius, Ingenious and The Ingenuous  --

The Ingenuity  :

--

The essential feature every-one is endowed with without exception is the sense of being. This sense of just pure being only, soon or later on gets turned into the sense of being 'some-one' because of the association with the ignorance of the fact what this sense is about, and why and how in the first place, this sense emerges out from nowhere in the mind / consciousness.

Though essentially Innocuous and Innocent, this is how this very sense of just pure being only, and the consciousness of this fact (of just being only) manifests into the form of being genius or ingenious. Being genius is being ingenious as well, but still may or may not be being ingenuous.

(Though this may look like a word-play, I'm  trying to go further into finding out this.)

This sense of just pure being is quite natural and spontaneous, but soon it gets translated into being some-thing or some-one, and gets corrupted, and becomes the individual.

Shrimadbhagvad-gita / श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता -

Chapter 7/27 points out :

इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत।।

सर्वभूतानि सम्मोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप।।२७।।

(अध्याय ७)

From the very beginning, All beings with no exception, come into existence, deluded with the conflict of desire and fear, apprehension and doubt. (Just because) The self is ignorant of the purpose, meaning and the truth of this sense of being oneself. 

This is what happens in the very beginning, when the the pure consciousness takes the form of an individual.

Only after having associated with intellect, the 'being' comes into 'becoming'.

So this conflict of being and becoming is the root-cause of all activities one goes through in (one's?) life.

So an average, ordinary being could either be an ignorant one, (ignorant of even this fact that one is ignorant), or the intellectual one, who is just confused and voluntarily or involuntarily trying to find out a way to get rid of this conflict.

The one who is quite ignorant and unaware of the fact of this initial ignorance moves on in life prompted by or being forced upon by the inherent tendencies like the desire and the fear, while the intellectual one tries to find out a pattern and / or order of the things that he is coming across. He could be genius, ingenious, ingenuous too. But no doubt, such a man is very un-decided what all this life is about. And according to his inherent latent tendencies, and the circumstances, he keeps on shifting from one thought to the another, may find temporary respite or satisfaction.

He keeps on trying to find out the answers to the questions like :

What is (my) future?

What decides and determines the future?

-- The Action / Effort or The Fate?

And by some mysterious reasons he keeps on avoiding / skipping the essential and the most important question : "Who I (am)?"

For a majority of people this looks like quite an absurd or senseless one. Even if one tries to think over this, one simply gets frustrated and can't see its significance any. 

But some-one out of sheer intensity of the urge, eagerness and earnestness, out of the sense of the absurdily of this life, the world, in the pursuit of a meaning and a purpose behind all this what one is and what this all existence is about, may find himself face to face to this question.

Fortunately and eventually, one may though come out of all this intellectual groove and grind, may see the light at the other end of this deep dark tunnel.

***