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I don't see his smarts.. so they ain't there.
First, this is not a debate on the existence of God or supernatural forces of any form, name etc. This is a criticism of the embarrassingly crude and narrow-minded approach that Richard Dawkins adopts in his book 'The God Delusion', while advancing arguments for atheism that are quite predictable and very repetitive, and don't take more than a brief skimming through by any layman, to understand. These arguments have been made by atheists worldwide in more or less a similar fashion for a long time now, and have been strengthened very much after Darwin came out with 'The Origin Of Species' in 1859.
I wanted to begin my critique here by saying something about evolution, versus creationism, and provide you with my views on the subject. But if I did so it would be very foolish, because my knowledge of evolution is confined to a layman's idea of it, and I know that there is no dearth of experts in the field who would more than easily tackle my amateurish doubts and speculations on the subject, with their immaculate research studies and principled methods of observation that have brought them to their current levels of understanding. No, my problem is not as much with evolution, as it is with the 'scientific method', so to say. Even assuming for argument's sake that evolution has made us what we are today, that shouldn't be grounds for a person to apply the principles behind the discovery of this process to everything in the Cosmos, and denounce the existence of forces and phenomena which are beyond our perception today. The scientific method suffers from a severe handicap when addressing questions that are beyond the realm of the first Tattva, and enter the realm of the second and third.
The first step of the scientific method involves 'careful observation'. Aren't we making an assumption here? An assumption that we can indeed observe, fully and without handicap, the phenomena which we seek to observe. This is a vital mistake, and one which illustrates the fact that if we are where we are today, it's not entirely due to the 'scientific method'. We cannot create, modify, innovate or explain anything solely on the basis of what we have observed. Inventions like the light bulb, the airplane, the safety pin etc., testify to that. There's always an idea, or an assumption, something that doesn't really 'exist' before we can perceive it with our five senses. So the next time you hear people say something like, 'I do believe that science can ultimately find the answer to all the complicated questions in life', don't hesitate to give them a piece of your mind. Like Dawkins, they are patronizing, narrow-minded, presumptuous, belligerent upstarts who underestimate the potential and diversity of human consciousness, and grossly mislead an already dislocated and hollow generation of people all over the world into believing that if you're in a dark room that's full of artistic masterpieces, there's no such thing as art.
'Starry Night' - Vincent van Gough
You're likely to ask that question if you happen to come across this blog. So, what is 'tattva3'? Tattva is a sanskrit word, which means 'reality', or 'truth'. Tattva Traya (tattva3) means, 'three truths'. It is a great thing that has been passed down from a time and age that is shrouded, not in faraway mists or hallowed fumes, but by suffocatingly thick and voluminous folds of time, calculations of which are not even conceivable, going by the standards that we are all forced to accept today.
Why have you started this blog, and why is this post in the travel channel?
The simple answer to the second part of the question is that this is a travelogue, more than it is anything else. Tattva3 is everything, and the journey towards understanding it is, ultimately, beautiful. There are obstacles along the way, some planned, some unexpected. I've met with many of these, and I'm still on the road. It gets difficult sometimes, and you wonder if you have to be a little mad to convince yourself that it is true. You don't. Tattva3 is not about far-fetched concepts that don't really matter in your everyday life. It's about satisfaction. A feeling beyond happy. It doesn't have the intensity of passion or the induced high of intoxication. People get along just like they did before, and deal with their problems and situations in life in just the same way. But after a person has merely recognized these truths, they confront the same things with the understanding that they are all parts of a whole, which is bigger than their sum. And that paves the way for further exploration into realms that are mind-bogglingly beautiful.
Why have I started this blog? I may have started it because I have lots of time on my hands right now.Or maybe because I feel that a few things need to be placed out there, for everyone to see and think about. But it is very difficult to put this subject in a space where anyone can be reading it, coming from any background, and having gone through any of the diverse, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, bizarre, scary, horrible, experiences that permute in a zillion ways to form the gamut of what we go through in our lives. But I want to do this because I know that it's something worth talking and thinking about, and I'm hoping that building this blog will help me inculcate some discipline, and give me something that can start off a routine in my life. So, there's a lot of 'me' in the reasons for starting this blog. Let's call it a venture, from which I can benefit just like you can. I think that's fair.
What can I expect to read in this blog?
Let's begin with what you can't expect: you won't be seeing adult-oriented material, erotic stories and the like. You won't be getting cooking recipes. There will be nothing on the lines of 'spirituality for dummies' or 'philosophy for dummies'. And, like a great person once said, 'these things cannot be made to stoop down to the level of the crowd, but must raise the consciousness of the crowd as much as possible'.
What you can expect, are 'impressionist' adaptations by the writer, of a branch of knowledge that is beyond immediate sensual gratification, but, when cultivated, can offer the same satisfaction and relief that a lover obtains upon reading a letter from her beloved who is away at war, saying that he is safe, and waiting to return to her. I think that's all I can say about this right now. Come back and read this blog often to get a taste of what it will be like.
And before this post is done...
Even if I don't mean it or feel it, I want to say that I'm so small and insignificant in the bigger picture that it did not create any necessity for those who did, to decide on making me realize my position and see beyond myself. In doing so, they've changed many things for me. It makes all the difference to a grain of sand, when it knows that it is part of a beautiful moonlit beach, and not a useless speck of matter with no place to be and nothing to do.
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