Unreal Reality Chapter 8
In the beginning there was order. And sense , as we understand .What is sense? Do you mean it
makes logical sense, as we understand, that is - that the cause leads to effect . The obvious question
he asks is what is so logical about the cause leading to effect ? How do you know that it is a logical thing for an effect to follow a cause . What is logical is only the connectivity through time .In other words things happen in time .Chronology is a big thing .Nothing but time connects things . The
connection is flimsy ? So it is. That is how things are. You want everything to follow a pattern ? You
believe everything follows a pattern . The scientist or the thinker maps the pattern and thinks that
he has achieved something . You have achieved nothing because a pattern does not really matter.
Things happen in succession , not because of an inherent cause-and-effect relationship. Because you
are not able to decipher the Big Cause . Why are we here ? Do you know ? Without the knowledge
of the Big Cause how does one trace the small effects to their causes ? Can we say that the headache of a person who is a patient of jaundice is traceable to the cold draught of the morning ? Again one is using the same fallible human logic . How else will one convey the absurdity of the whole thing ?Jagannath always wanted to look at the inner truth. There is no other truth than the inner truth.
Everything else is skin-deep. When he looked at anything his eyes looked for what was below the
surface. When he looked at people it appeared as though he was looking through them and not at
them leaving a disconcerting feeling in them. Nothing was real . It is the shadows which stretched
on the ground behind them that preoccupied him. It is the shadows that are real .You are unreal .
You are a reflection of the Reality , a reflection of the shadow itself. These funny rules of the natural world only cover up the essential truth .Because they impose limitations on the physical existence.They impose clearly defined contours limiting your understanding of the physical objects. Men,things , trees and the blue sky - everything is limited and circumscribed. How does one get at the truth ? Jagannath always thought that in order to arrive at truth the rules making up the truth haveto be demolished . Because it is the contours that define the objects and a contourlessobject is born
out of an undefined idea. It is the ideas which stretch into space like kites floating in the sky whenseparated from the strings. Space is unlimited and undefined .It boggles the mind to imagine the
billions of stars glittering in the firmament without limiting edges . It gives you a headache to think of the infinite possibilities present in the universe when you lie supine on the roof watching the
starlit sky of the amavasya night.
The problem Jagannath faced from childhood onwards was the absurd illogic of the daily
transactions of the world. When he became the branch manager of a bank his problem was not how
to run the bank branch efficiently and earn plaudits from his superiors . What bothered him was the
superstructure of a bank built upon thin pieces of commonplace logic codified into the do's and
don'ts that skirt the Reality , pretending to exist on logical foundations. The money is not the truth
nor are the people who bring money and take it .What is truth ? Absurd limpets of bank customers
strutting around as if in dream bearing shadowy discs of silver money into its portals ? And the
bosses who wore many-layered monocles and ,hawk-like , supervised the manager walking about
in apparent control of the nebulous banking system ? Jagannath was totally confused . Who are
these ghost-like creatures shrieking out in eerie silence across the marble-topped counters of the
Bank? What is the apparent justification for their existence ,an effect which can only be traced to the Original Cause ?Money as a gross statistical aggregate fascinated him. Not because it felt good to have crisp new currency notes in your wallet which gave you the power over things and people . Not even because money meant acquiring beauty and living a life of rhythm and symmetry.Jagannath enjoyed being asymmetrical and out of rhythm. Symmetry implied conformity with the imperfect logic of things born out of a limited comprehension of the nature of things. Who wants money for acquiring such imperfect things ? Money itself is a product of the imperfect workings of the human mind far
removed from the Big Logic.
Computers break down the basic code of life. The accounting system of his bank depended upon
these silica-based machines which seem to understand the algorithm of life better than any other
imperfect human system . Everything in the bank that dealt with cash got translated into soft
menu-driven programmes written in the binary code. This way Jagannath found it easier to
understand the complexity of the Big Logic and tear down the utterly inadequate human logical
system . But the programmes are so stereotyped and so much modeled upon the limited logic of
the human mind and a severely circumscribed value system it represented that Jagannath got tired
of them soon .The Rules of the Logic are so predictable and so boring ! What are the Rules which
made these rules imperative in our workaday world ? Should one not have to enter the very heart
of these idea-machines and crack the Basic Code which governed all those logical postulations one
mistook for science ? Through a systematic destruction of an extremely fallible human logic the
entire value system which the computers uphold in deference to the society they serve can be
toppled in no time . You enter the Disc Operating System and destroy the very foundation for the
running of the multitudes of tiny logical systems operating to manage the various subsystems that
made our life . How easy and how vulnerable !
Jagannath hated symmetry . In a chaotic world the artist tries to bring about symmetry . He always
felt that attempts to bring about symmetry would take you away from the Reality. And then the
need for capturing the rhythm of life ! Underneath the rhythm lies the heart of matter , the very
nature of things. Symmetry is achieved through a structure which should be destroyed in order to
arrive at Truth. This is because your idea of Beauty is derived from a distorted sense of Reality in
order to grasp the Reality it is essential
to destroy all those physical layers that have hidden it from us.
What is ethics but an extended logic born of the limited working of the human brain over centuries
of existence of the human race exclusively created for the purpose of ensuring its survival ? What
ultimately matters is the survival .It is the framework of the ethical system which keeps changing .
There is nothing absolute about what is right and what is wrong .It is the current agenda of the
society that keeps determining what is right , not necessarily the most logical thing. One thing
fascinated Jagannath very much . In the Bank incidents of frauds take place at fairly frequent
intervals. What motivates these people who commit frauds to take enormous risks knowing fully
well that the system will ultimately throw up the fraudster ? Jagannath looked at the bank's
accounting systems with fascination .It is not the menu-driven programmes that interested him . It is
the mind of the computer that mattered. That is where the Reality resided . It is not the ethical
system based upon an abstract altruism that interested him . It is the shadows of the Reality thatcaptivated him . What are these frauds but flimsy attempts to move away from the structures of an impossible accounting system , which in turn depended upon an imperfect logical system far removed from the Reality ?For thirty years Jagannath thought that the truth eluded him , the
nebulous Logic , which is the mother of all logical systems .
The banker - accountant always goes red in the face when the apparent inconsistency of
accounting transactions stares them in the face. For every goddamn debit entry there has got to be a
goddamn credit entry .Jagannath thought about the exciting possibility of the existence of a
suspense entry in the grand scheme of things . What if the books of the universe did not tally in the
ultimate analysis and the trial balance ended with a suspense entry ?
End of Chapter 8
makes logical sense, as we understand, that is - that the cause leads to effect . The obvious question
he asks is what is so logical about the cause leading to effect ? How do you know that it is a logical thing for an effect to follow a cause . What is logical is only the connectivity through time .In other words things happen in time .Chronology is a big thing .Nothing but time connects things . The
connection is flimsy ? So it is. That is how things are. You want everything to follow a pattern ? You
believe everything follows a pattern . The scientist or the thinker maps the pattern and thinks that
he has achieved something . You have achieved nothing because a pattern does not really matter.
Things happen in succession , not because of an inherent cause-and-effect relationship. Because you
are not able to decipher the Big Cause . Why are we here ? Do you know ? Without the knowledge
of the Big Cause how does one trace the small effects to their causes ? Can we say that the headache of a person who is a patient of jaundice is traceable to the cold draught of the morning ? Again one is using the same fallible human logic . How else will one convey the absurdity of the whole thing ?Jagannath always wanted to look at the inner truth. There is no other truth than the inner truth.
Everything else is skin-deep. When he looked at anything his eyes looked for what was below the
surface. When he looked at people it appeared as though he was looking through them and not at
them leaving a disconcerting feeling in them. Nothing was real . It is the shadows which stretched
on the ground behind them that preoccupied him. It is the shadows that are real .You are unreal .
You are a reflection of the Reality , a reflection of the shadow itself. These funny rules of the natural world only cover up the essential truth .Because they impose limitations on the physical existence.They impose clearly defined contours limiting your understanding of the physical objects. Men,things , trees and the blue sky - everything is limited and circumscribed. How does one get at the truth ? Jagannath always thought that in order to arrive at truth the rules making up the truth haveto be demolished . Because it is the contours that define the objects and a contourlessobject is born
out of an undefined idea. It is the ideas which stretch into space like kites floating in the sky whenseparated from the strings. Space is unlimited and undefined .It boggles the mind to imagine the
billions of stars glittering in the firmament without limiting edges . It gives you a headache to think of the infinite possibilities present in the universe when you lie supine on the roof watching the
starlit sky of the amavasya night.
The problem Jagannath faced from childhood onwards was the absurd illogic of the daily
transactions of the world. When he became the branch manager of a bank his problem was not how
to run the bank branch efficiently and earn plaudits from his superiors . What bothered him was the
superstructure of a bank built upon thin pieces of commonplace logic codified into the do's and
don'ts that skirt the Reality , pretending to exist on logical foundations. The money is not the truth
nor are the people who bring money and take it .What is truth ? Absurd limpets of bank customers
strutting around as if in dream bearing shadowy discs of silver money into its portals ? And the
bosses who wore many-layered monocles and ,hawk-like , supervised the manager walking about
in apparent control of the nebulous banking system ? Jagannath was totally confused . Who are
these ghost-like creatures shrieking out in eerie silence across the marble-topped counters of the
Bank? What is the apparent justification for their existence ,an effect which can only be traced to the Original Cause ?Money as a gross statistical aggregate fascinated him. Not because it felt good to have crisp new currency notes in your wallet which gave you the power over things and people . Not even because money meant acquiring beauty and living a life of rhythm and symmetry.Jagannath enjoyed being asymmetrical and out of rhythm. Symmetry implied conformity with the imperfect logic of things born out of a limited comprehension of the nature of things. Who wants money for acquiring such imperfect things ? Money itself is a product of the imperfect workings of the human mind far
removed from the Big Logic.
Computers break down the basic code of life. The accounting system of his bank depended upon
these silica-based machines which seem to understand the algorithm of life better than any other
imperfect human system . Everything in the bank that dealt with cash got translated into soft
menu-driven programmes written in the binary code. This way Jagannath found it easier to
understand the complexity of the Big Logic and tear down the utterly inadequate human logical
system . But the programmes are so stereotyped and so much modeled upon the limited logic of
the human mind and a severely circumscribed value system it represented that Jagannath got tired
of them soon .The Rules of the Logic are so predictable and so boring ! What are the Rules which
made these rules imperative in our workaday world ? Should one not have to enter the very heart
of these idea-machines and crack the Basic Code which governed all those logical postulations one
mistook for science ? Through a systematic destruction of an extremely fallible human logic the
entire value system which the computers uphold in deference to the society they serve can be
toppled in no time . You enter the Disc Operating System and destroy the very foundation for the
running of the multitudes of tiny logical systems operating to manage the various subsystems that
made our life . How easy and how vulnerable !
Jagannath hated symmetry . In a chaotic world the artist tries to bring about symmetry . He always
felt that attempts to bring about symmetry would take you away from the Reality. And then the
need for capturing the rhythm of life ! Underneath the rhythm lies the heart of matter , the very
nature of things. Symmetry is achieved through a structure which should be destroyed in order to
arrive at Truth. This is because your idea of Beauty is derived from a distorted sense of Reality in
order to grasp the Reality it is essential
to destroy all those physical layers that have hidden it from us.
What is ethics but an extended logic born of the limited working of the human brain over centuries
of existence of the human race exclusively created for the purpose of ensuring its survival ? What
ultimately matters is the survival .It is the framework of the ethical system which keeps changing .
There is nothing absolute about what is right and what is wrong .It is the current agenda of the
society that keeps determining what is right , not necessarily the most logical thing. One thing
fascinated Jagannath very much . In the Bank incidents of frauds take place at fairly frequent
intervals. What motivates these people who commit frauds to take enormous risks knowing fully
well that the system will ultimately throw up the fraudster ? Jagannath looked at the bank's
accounting systems with fascination .It is not the menu-driven programmes that interested him . It is
the mind of the computer that mattered. That is where the Reality resided . It is not the ethical
system based upon an abstract altruism that interested him . It is the shadows of the Reality thatcaptivated him . What are these frauds but flimsy attempts to move away from the structures of an impossible accounting system , which in turn depended upon an imperfect logical system far removed from the Reality ?For thirty years Jagannath thought that the truth eluded him , the
nebulous Logic , which is the mother of all logical systems .
The banker - accountant always goes red in the face when the apparent inconsistency of
accounting transactions stares them in the face. For every goddamn debit entry there has got to be a
goddamn credit entry .Jagannath thought about the exciting possibility of the existence of a
suspense entry in the grand scheme of things . What if the books of the universe did not tally in the
ultimate analysis and the trial balance ended with a suspense entry ?
End of Chapter 8
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