The Individualists.

Intellectuals and Ideologists.

ज्ञान-निष्ठा 

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The most simple and  common people could be of the kind of those who are materialist. But essentially they are also seeker.

Everyone instinctively seeks comfort, joy and lasting security. They all seek something of permanent value that could never be lost. Not in the moment of death also.  Though everyone is a seeker, a materialist is one who begins with the idea that there is a world around him and there are many people and things in that world. Living and non-living. I am also one of them, seeking continuity of the pleasures and joy, lasting security and avoiding all pain and suffering.

This materialist who is essentially a seeker also, can never think,  imagine, nor believe that the world is false, unreal, something of the hypothetical kind only. He agrees that though the world is ever so changing, it is only the real a place somehow, not unreal.  It never occurs to him that there might be an underlying principle, where-from the world derives its apparent and ever-continuous existence. For him, it is always a reality, is always changing, but never unreal. 

A materialist can't think that the world could be unreal. He is always in kind of  intimate relationship with the world of his perceptions. He is the only center and the world of his perceptions revolves around him, he can never distinguish between him and the world and can't see the thin line of division between the two. There is of course a hazy borderline between him and the world like the hairline fracture. But it never occurs to him how he could separate the two in perfect isolation.

Let for the time being, the question be unresolved. Still every man without exception is either a materialist or a seeker. Or may be, he has both of these characteristics in him. What to say about the animals and the other kind of living beings?

We can take it that like the  humans, they never think, because thinking / thought depends on a language.

And Language depends upon a set of certain spoken words with a meaning or a sense attached to them. A meaning or sense could be in the form of some object or an abstract notion only.

This is what the  grammar tells us. Respectively -- about the common noun and the abstract noun. 

For living comfortably and happily, the materialist may or may not need word or a language at all. Still no doubt, like any animal, the I-sense prevails in and him without uttering this word "I".

In his case this "I" is rather inconspicuous. Still it reflects in all his actions and all his  behaviour. Thus "I" may be either a very narrow and extremely self-centred state of mind, or comparatively a  broad and may include others according to who fits in there well satisfactorily. This may create a sense of "others" who like him are also individuals or persons like him.

As a consequence he accepts a society of the people of his own kind.

After having accepted such a society he expects how he is related to other individuals and then he develops into an intellectual or individualist.

He may be happy or unhappy about it. He may then try to find out how he can help the world around him.

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Having noted this much I felt have nothing more to say. So just closed the tab and put the device away.

It was 10:55 a.m. 25 minutes before now.

Thought of taking bath, but somehow skipped it and was feeling hungry and took the meals. 

While eating I was kind of watching myself in a way.

A comment from within my own came onto the surface of the conscious mind :

यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति।।

तदा गन्तासि निर्वेदं श्रोतव्यस्य श्रुतस्य च।।

A verse from श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता / Shrimadbhagvad-gita. 

And suddenly an old memory came in the mind.

During 1984, I was suffering from Jaundice and was on a long leave from the job.

Before that I had been (so as to say) meditating a lot. Had a few deeper experiences too.

During that time a man of my age came in my contact. Can't say, exactly what might have brought us together but now I saw he was in the same state of mind as of mine and how I am presently also. That may be how the above lines came to mind.

We didn't talked much, would meet once in a few days, but still had for sure some cord of deep connectedness. 

These were the days during 1995-97. My father passed away on 24th July 1997. After 2 days he too left his body. He breathed last in the hospital where he was admitted after a serious medical condition.

Like me, he too was a fan and fond of J.Krishnamurti.

Now after so many years I came to see what might have brough us together.

I don't remember if I ever had such a deep and close affinity with anyone else.

Now I see and I can dedicate this post to the memory that was such a great revelation

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