Relativity

Its been long since I wrote anything on my blog. But for me its just like, I haven't posted it. I get a thought, I wish to blog it and it doesn't show up on my blog for many days. Don't be surprised if it appears after 2 years. I didn't blog it, but that thought is with me and will be posted some day. As like the paragraph below of this blog which was written a year back and i am just continuing with it.

Recently I was reading a column in a Telugu newspaper wherein readers write their problems and the expert suggests something. One of the problems raised by a woman was: her husband died recently and since then she is suffering from headache. Its a bad thing right. You might think that the death of her husband is responsible for her health problem. If we go into the details, her husband used to torture her everyday and life was a hell for that woman before his death. Now she couldn't understand why she is having this headache everyday as her husband/headache left her for ever. For someone who didn't know anything about the husband this would seem like a big blow to the woman. In Vedanta there is a concept which says that there are two kinds of truth, absolute and relative. Birth and death are absolute whereas everything else like happiness, sadness, beauty etc are relative.

Now lets try to understand this. Who was the 38'th Governor of California? Seems difficult, but the answer is Arnold Schwazneger. 7 times Mr. Olympia and a popular hollywood actor. If we go to some village and try to find out who all know him, anything above 1% would be a surprising thing. Now go to California and ask about YSR. It would give the same response. Think of the most powerful alien creature. Does it exist? How does it look? The relativity is there. No one is absolutely popular or to say nothing is absolute.

I have a friend of mine, who is jobless at 26. What would the state of his mind be. Sad/Depressed/Low in confidence ? Exactly opposite to that. He is totally enjoying his life and when asked about job, he answers "kya karenge. Aaram se karenge, kya hai tension." The person asking the question is feeling sad about him to say. Not everyone is like that. I have an other friend who is going through the same phase and is low in confidence, so how we see it may not be the thing happening there.

One more example to drive home the point. In 2008 there was an acid attack in AP on an engineering student [Swapnika]. As the news came out in various TV channels everyone in the state[including me] was so agitated that each of us wanted the perpetrators to be killed as brutally as anyone could imagine. As the perpetrators were encountered normalcy returned to our minds. Few days later I came across an other acid attack, in Afghanistan. School girls were attacked this time. The reason being that they were attending school and the perpetrators were against that because, the book which they follow says[or interpreted that way] that girls shouldn't attend schools. If we just search there are many such crimes just unknown to us. We are just affected by the ones we see/shown. We could be in an illusion[Maya] thinking that whatever is seen by us is the thing happening in the world.

As in physics we have the frame of reference concept, we also have a frame of reference within us and everything we see or feel is from this frame. So given a situation 2 people react differently though they see the same thing and of course what we see around is affecting us everyday. I was watching a program recently and this was explained clearly. The frame in which we live is our Manosthithi and the happenings around us is the paristhithi we are in. We cannot control the paristhithi always but our manosththi can be under our control. Its of course very difficult to master that, but once done its like a bullet proof from the world around us. So whatever happens in the world we are under our control and the things we see are not controlling us anymore. It is not running away from the problem but embracing the problem and acting with a cool mind.

When I started the blog I chose to name it "Good vs Bad" but it changed to "Relativity" now. Without further delay I am posting it now lest the title and content change.