Does it make a sound?

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” This world negates all possibilities of having a belief (of any kind for that matter). Between what is true and what is not false, lies the reality, which the human mind miserably fails to perceive. As Bishop George Berkeley’s famous philosophy goes, “to be, is to be perceived” and that again makes the reality a virtual concept. Just that, it is a very persistent one. Otherwise, everything is an illusion…

When someone attaches some significance or meaning to any such illusion, it becomes a reality for that someone. What’s in a name? What’s in looks? What’s in your financial status? The more you think about these, the more they lay bare in front of you, because visualization they say is a powerful thing… Take a moment to look around you. Everything that you see around you is your reality. Everything you miss out in the process loses out in forming part of your reality. But in that case there are certain things I consider real which are invisible, which cannot be perceived. The best examples being the air we breathe and the heat we feel… Similarly certain other things we say that we see do not exist. For example darkness. Is that real? I would say no. Darkness is just the absence of light, which is why it cannot be made ‘more dark’, quite contrary to how we can add more light.

 Having said so, if I say that it is your perception that is creating your reality and that this reality varies from person to person, would you disagree? And in that matter, there is no one reality. But reality is said to be ‘the state of things in which they actually exist’. Then, can there be more than one reality? Don’t you think now, that the real is turning surreal?

This is where we need to recognize the latent clairvoyance in us. This moment is when you have a perfect vantage of your life, that you could well predict your future by creating it. All that you believed to be the reality all through your life could have been the society’s reality, which you convinced yourself to be immutable. When life has thrust the palette of colours and the paint brush in your hands, what you create is what you will see…The canvas is still plain… What are you waiting for?