Bharatham : Uthishtatha-Jagratha : (wef-05/11/2012. )

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 23,2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-7. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Philosophers have stumbled upon this difficulty and have gone to the extent of finding out if there is any qualitative superiority in our reason, in our intellects, in our ratiocinations, beyond what the senses give us as a quantity of information. We have failed utterly. We have found nothing; we see nothing. But there is a peculiar feature in our reason, or rationality; and our question which is refusing to be ignored finally, whatever be the difficulty in answering it.  2. The process of human history is nothing but the insistence of this question to receive an answer and the failure of humanity to provide an answer. If humanity had provided an answer to this insistent question, the world would have vanished altogether by this time. But no one has

---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 03,2020.06:04.AM. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-6. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Our daily activities will show that there does not seem to be much relevance between the seeking of an answer to this question and the nature of our daily movements in life. We do not consciously do anything, it appears. We are driven by impulses. We are forced under certain circumstances to act in a particular manner; and if this is true, we cannot say that we have an aim before us. The aim is merely to be subjected to the mandate of that power which compels us to move in a particular direction. Well, this cannot be called an aim. This is slavery. 2. So we do not seem to be able to perceive any aim in our life by opening our eyes, or listening to any sound through our ears, or from any sensory operation. And intellectual