Currently, on an Indian TV channel, an advertisement by a cellular services company is marketing its product by depicting Grandma and her granddaughter in remote locations but communicating through a cell phone. The granddaughter makes grandma listen to the sound of the temple bell and the Grandmas’ head bows down with reverence….
Prima facie the ad appears as a natural phenomenon in the traditional Indian setup. But Mind cannot accept it at a face value.
The sound of bells… in Grandma generates reverence.
The sound of bells in Hemingway brings the apprehension of uncertainty and Death.
The sound of school bell springs up joy of freedom to play in the child’s heart?
The sound of the bells in a meditator’s mind generates an urge to go from without to within.
What made the sound such a difference in different people?
It is certainly not a mere contact of the stimuli with the sound sense organs!
Is it logic mixed with the contact?
To certain extent yes. Grandma knows the daughter has gone to pilgrimage. Hemingway is on a warzone. Child is in a school.
But what if the granddaughter plays the sound of some other bells? What if the child hears the bells of a different school? Does logic play any role then?
Why does a news of bursting of fire crackers in a remote location generates different reactions? E.g. no casualty = accident, child dying = carelessness on someone’s part, more people dying = a possible sabotage and so on. And if it is sabotage then it must be definitely a particular group or a sect or an ideologist may it be ultra, contra or pro.
MIND argues, if logic is used in its true nature, it should suppress a Rolling Mind by analyzing and revealing the true nature of affairs. But it does not always do it.
So can one say that logic is also entangled and therefore part of the Grandma’s knot?
Then what is responsible in influencing logic? Is it a valuation?
If Valuation cannot assist in right judgment then is it worth?
MIND again wanders… Is not absence of Valuation more profitable in LIFE?
Friday, August 8, 2008
Valuation
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2 comments:
Valuation and association is what we grow up with...some actions are good , some bad and it is inculcated in us from our childhood.
Is there anything like a 'good' bell or a 'bad' bell sound? Probably not, except that our past associations evoke current reactions.
The sound of a temple bell is intended to evoke 'good' feelings and encourage us to buy the product.
To see the sound as it is without any past associations is what we learnt much later from meditation techniques like Vipassana.
But is it possible to get away from our old mind habits altogether?
its something to do with the response system that we have been built-in since childhood and the "grandmas knot" that is carried over generations, that some values resist change...
however, a very neatly articulated post...kya likhte ho sureshbhai...
as usual, provokes thinking...
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