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I am originally from India. I am settled in United States since 1969. I love mathematics, philosophy and clarity in thinking.

Desire, Will and “I”

July 29, 2010 – 10:24 PM

Desire is the point where it all begins. Will, as in “free will”, is the course taken by Desire.

As far as Desire goes, there is only one choice, and that is to follow the desire. But as far as the course that can be taken to fulfill the desire is concerned, there is infinity of choices that can be made.

Desire may choose a single fixed course. The universe is an example of this. The universe seems to be completely governed by its desire to evolve. As it evolves, it solidifies through its complexity. The beingness and behavior of the physical aspect of the universe, is pretty much fixed and predictable. The only choices available are those within these laws, which are being exploited by Science to obtain physical comforts.

The course becomes increasingly fixed as it is directed.

But the Desire that is exploiting the physical universe has to be highly capable of imagination. In other words, it should be capable of making choices in an unconstrained fashion in the course of its investigation of the physical universe. The beingness and behavior of such a Desire would be highly variable and unpredictable. It will make its own laws as needed and will then discard them.

The beingness or “I” comes about as a result of Desire. The nature of “I” depends on the course that the Desire takes in search for its fulfillment. The “will” tends to be associated with “I”. But both “will” and “I”, whether free or constrained ultimately depend on Desire.

Do you really possess free will?

Well, check the desire that is being manifested as “you” and the course it is taking. If “you” represents a very inventive Scientist, such as, Edison, then “you” is exercising a lot of free will. But if “you” represents a cockroach, then that “you” is capable of exercising little free will.

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Time

July 29, 2010 – 5:49 AM

This is an expansion upon the essay Beginning.

Cycle, Time and Time Track

TIME is an inherent characteristic of a cycle. It implies the persistence of something from beginning to end, whether it is desire, beingness, or awareness.

The essence persists while the form may change. Thus, beingness and awareness persist throughout a cycle while their manifestations as identities and viewpoints may go through various changes as the cycle progresses. These identities and viewpoints may stay in memory stamped with a sense of their relative occurrence. We may refer to this sense as TIME, and such a memory as TIME TRACK.

Thus, a “time track” of detailed incidents involving identities and viewpoints may exist in the memory.

Impressions and Assimilation

The impressions of the time track gets fixed in place when they have not been thoroughly viewed. These are elements that are only partially assimilated. When those elements are thoroughly viewed and fully assimilated the “memory impressions” transforms into “knowledge.”

The incidental details of memory dissolve into conceptual understanding when viewed thoroughly.

You may not know in detail what you ate for breakfast on 4th of July, 1987 but your attention is not fixed there. There is nothing there that needs to be known. The details of that moment have become irrelevant. The details of that breakfast may be approximated from the knowledge of that time period, but there is nothing mysterious that will demand your attention to be fixed there.

Memory and Recall

If one cannot spot any incidents on one’s time track then it is quite possible that all incidents of that period have been properly assimilated. But it is also possible that one is being prevented from perceiving the incidents of that time period because of a lack of assimilation somewhere else.

It appears that the periods on the time track may get assimilated with respect to the viewpoint held, but viewpoints during different periods do not get assimilated.

Not looking a certain period of the time track from the same viewpoint held at that time, may produce illusions. It has been said that the most fundamental illusion is TIME, and this essay may point to something similar.

Glossary

Time
Time is an inherent characteristic of a cycle. It implies the persistence of the cycle from beginning to end, whether it is desire, beingness, or awareness.

Time Track
The time track is the sense of relative occurrence.

Impression
A memory impression in the mind is made of associations that are relatively fixed. These are perceptual elements that are only partially assimilated. Upon full assimilation they have the fluidity of knowledge.

Recall
If one cannot recall a specific memory, then it is quite possible that the memory has been fully assimilated into knowledge; and it would have to be reconstructed carefully for the time under consideration. But it is also possible that a lack of assimilation elsewhere is preventing the recall of this time.

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Beingness, Desire & Knowledge

July 22, 2010 – 8:49 PM

A person is a being. That beingness is there, essentially, to satisfy some desire.

The key characteristic of beingness that is most valued is INDIVIDUALITY. This concept of individuality boils down to “an indivisible unit (of consciousness) that is unique.”

The INDIVIDUALITY is based on the uniqueness of the desire it is designed to pursue.

Each one of us is an individual. Each one of us is pursuing a unique “desire” that defines us. Though it is rare to witness an individuality defined by the single pursuit of a pure desire. Such individualities stand out because they go far in accomplishing their desire. Gandhi would be such a pure desire; and so would be Hitler. Here we are simply talking about a desire and not passing a judgment on that desire.

The knowledge disseminated by an individuality is obviously designed to serve that basic desire that defines it. There is no question about it. But, what I posit here is that there is “knowledge in itself,” which may then be moulded by the desire-bound-individuality for its purpose.

Knowledge may be biased by desire.

Thus, any person outputs knowledge that is slanted by the beingness of that person. There is no knowledge from any single source that would be free of slant, whether it is Hitler or Gandhi. But underlying that slant there exists “knowledge in itself.”

The biggest hurdle to perceiving that “knowledge in itself” is not the slant put on it by its “source”; though that can be a significant hurdle.

The biggest hurdle to perceiving that “knowledge in itself” is the the beingness that the viewer is. When one can rise above one’s own beingness then one may perceive that “knowledge in itself.”

“Knowledge in itself” exists for no beingness.

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Some of my favorite Music

July 21, 2010 – 10:15 PM

I don’t really care about music, but some music just gets to me even when I don’t have any idea of what the lyrics are. My children, both of whom are quite musical, are amused at my odd and eclectic taste in music. On my recent birthday they compiled my favorites (there are not many of them) on a CD and presented it to me. The following selection contains many of them.

Lately, I have added some new ones.