Virtual reality (maya)

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Let us examine knowledge and its functions as well as its capacities and

dimensions. Knowledge requires a platform to operate, which called language. As

a beginning, will it not be easy to explore what we speak and write? How do we

acquire linguistic skills? Is not the word an abstract entity all by itself?

Finally, are we using the word or used by it?

To think of thinking is the need of the day, but do we know what thinking is or

do away by the process itself? Word is a window to its knowledge and feelings

generated. The teacher and taught, without two elements there is neither

education nor the world we visualize. The same gap is from word to real, since

the word apple is not real, so the gap is the problem. To solve this problem are

we not creating innumerable problems? Simply we say that the problem lies in

ones own perception, alternatively the world we experience.

Do we aware of the functioning of linguistic patterns or just carried away by

presumptions and assumptions, which are part of linguistic ideology? It is

surprising to note that all philosophical statements are logical derivations.

Logic based on two, one is constant and the other is variable. Out of these we

derive, the third, which is a name, imposed on real. Name – its image – feeling

– idea, the steps we call functioning of language. Linguistic operation is three

dimensional in its volume, directional, and dynamic in its character. Is it not

the whole of the intellect, which we carry all the time with different names,

such as mind, heart, consciousness, inner world etc?

Knowledge is the outcome of interactive principle which is result oriented in

its conceptual form. Therefore, concept drives humans to its result. However

voluminous in its stature and predictive in its character still it is partial

and indirect by its nature. The relational arrangement between nouns – verb –

tense is the relational attitude between subject and object. This relation may

be rational or irrational. Opposites ingrained in language, so pessimism verses

optimism, order – disorder, theism – atheism, and so on rooted in language but

not anywhere in nature. Essentially languages constructed for memorizing past

events and experiences so to refine them in present. Even the refined state of

consciousness is inadequate to meet the present. Therefore, there is continuous

strife for better knowledge in the world in which we live. By its very

inception, knowledge is divisive phenomena hence can offer division only. It is

the witness to its own activity, which is the reason of its expansion. These are

the grounding factors for conceivable reality and experience. Memory is past and

functioning in present and projects the future project.

It is clear that the trio KNOWER – KNOWN – KNOWLEDGE is all past and time bound.

If there is no transformation to intelligence, this knowledge remains a mere

tin. Formulas require explanation. Explanation may be in the shape of a song,

dance, and drama but there is every chance of deriving mythical ideology, so to

save from this kind of diversions, there is philosophical enquiry. Enquiry is

full of logic, which is based on mathematics, when not used in conjunction of

subject, express disastrous and conflicting statement

Knowledge is a cluster of statements. Essence of accumulated knowledge is called

as intuition, which instigate, HOW? Word as is an image and its produced image

is mounted upon primary image. Two lifeless images are interacting because of

sound.

The whole of thought process depends on calculation. Movement of thought is

calculation, but only factual but not real. Natural intelligence is covered by

accrued intellect like fire is covered by smoke, mirror is covered by dust, but

smoke is taken for granted as fire. Since there is no clear distinction between

factuality and reality, all suffocated ideas are expressed as real. Ignorance

verses intelligence, these two opposites are responsible for tons of literature.

Phenomenal approach to language may solve problems since it deals with what we

see, hear, feel etc in contrast to what may be real and true about the world we

feel and live.

We have to bear in mind that we are exploring virtual world, otherwise known as

linguistic knowledge, which has a fraction of relation with the real. This

relation is only with image, which we get out of sound. Sound and touch are the

basic ingredients to formulate a picture. Our so-called mind is nothing but the

analysis of these pictures. Here we are not going to propose any new idea or

concept but investigating the gifted knowledge from our ancestors and trying to

find out its relative strength, which we inherit as a language. So let us begin

with our own mother tongue, which we learn in the form of a song, story, an

epic, or sayings, which stand as a translator throughout the rest of our lives.

We call this translator as mind, heart, etc. We live in a pluralistic world

which in fact is not real but a virtual one, which is also called MAYA

(Sanskrit).

Belief plays a vital role in our lives, without which, we cannot even imagine.

Thus, derived imagination is the stepping-stone for entire human activity.

Language is not as simple as it appears to be. Arranged relation between sound

and symbol and their picture is thought and its provocation, now the question is

whether it would be possible to examine this invisible provocation? If with

what?

Relation with a mirror is the same with a language. Whatever formulae, theories,

explanations, and concepts thus derived are only limited to those images which

help our movement both inside and outside. Habituated to live in a conceptual

environment, without which we feel homeless. Yet we talk of mukthi, moksha,

freedom etc. This we may call self-deception. Education through a language

advocated since eons. Veda (Sanskrit) means to know and this functions over two,

one is (memory) smrithi and the other is sruthi (order of sound) but both are

invisible. Therefore, there are different names for the outcome of combinations

and permutations. Unfortunately, we hang on to these names. All invisible

feelings are generated in-between two images, one is of self and the other is of

the object, and the activity continues forever until there is true enquiry. Then

only knowledge acquired can function in a sane order.

KUMARILA BHATTU (Vedic exponent) said that words convey their own meanings, not

related to something else. Descriptive sentences are significant. Sentence

meaning as composed of separate word meanings held together in a relational

structure. Word meaning formed is the simplest unit of sense. Persons thus learn

the meaning of words by seeing others talking as well as from advice of elders.

MANDAN MISRA said that phenomenal distinctions are unreal and appearance of

immutable word essence.

K LANGER said that language is only means of articulating thought. Essential act

of thought is symbolization. World of humans made of symbol and its meaning.

PRABHAKARA said that all knowledge is verbal which is inferential in its

character.

HUXLEY said that we sin by attributing concrete significance to meaningless

pseudo knowledge as real understanding. We are amphibians living simultaneously

in the world of experience and the world of notions.

SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY explains that the language is the base of intellectual games

we play with ourselves. It is responsible for the division of SEER – SEEN which

is an egocentric ideology. This virtual reality is the cause and its effect of

illusion.

PATANJALI YOGA describes that two different feelings like pain and pleasure

never occur simultaneously. Inference we derive out of a paragraph is only

feeling.

POORVA MEEMAMSA said every symbol is a picture and its experience is SEER.

Entire linguistic pattern is only indicative. So the index and indicated are

images. Combinations of several meanings of words are the meaning of a

paragraph.

GOUDAPADA (mandookya karikalu) explained that cause and its effect are

interdependent and prone to change.

SANKARA Acharya said that group of symbols is a word and expression of these

words is creation. However, mature logical ideology may be still it is partial

and different from the real. Negation of all psychological impressions is to be

wise.

PANINI (Creator of Sanskrit grammar) warned to check phonetics to understand the

cause of difference in time. Sound is traveling in the human body in the shape

of symbol. Totality of A to Z is self and its practices.

JIDDU KRISHNA MURTHY said that word is not the real thing.

NAGARJUNA said that the experience and reason do not give us genuine knowledge.

RAMANUJA said that we could not prove the existence of an object without

attributing, even in case of self-consciousness and in the object of intuition.

WITTGENSTIEN Main source of our failure to understand is that we do not command

a clear view of the use of our words.

VIDYARANYA (panchadasi) Because of verbal sounds we get pictures of existing

objects and a doubt. This happens even when there is no object.

What we are destroying is the house of cards and clearing the ground on which

they stand. Philosophy does not result in propositions, but rather in clarifying

them. The end of language is the end of human world.

thank you

sekhar