Dictionary - Beyond* a Mere Collection of Words A world around words Every
country has created its own
Dictionary and advances it further as per the progress rate of the citizens of that country. It is a kind of sensitive index that clearly reflects the growth rate of a country through its use, misuse or overuse by the citizens. Of course, the worldwide-dominating English language dictionary lying on our tables is a fine example of that effort and reason behind so many of our own selective interpretations. There are certain stages of our interaction with this dictionary to take out selective meanings, which further determine the existing layers in a country.
stage 1 – A Novice – When you don’t know that you don’t know, and the society
treats you as an
illiterate. (When you don’t know that you don’t know.) A novice is always on main agenda or a soft target of politicians because he doesn’t know that he doesn’t know. Stage 2 – A Learner – When you know that you don’t know and start learning, and the society treats you as a
student. (When you know that you don’t know.) Stage 3 – A Practitioner – When you know that you can use this for some specific purpose and the society treats you as a
professional. (When you know that you don’t know what, and now how to proceed towards it.) Stage 4 – A Believer – Here you run a risk of being a blind follower or believer so now you are in a stage when you firmly believe that you know that, and the society around treats you as a firm believer or a
religious person, “
The more faithful than thou”. But in fact, you touch the stage of either believer or blind follower. (When you know that you know: you have a name, identity, religion, kinsmen, state and country to ensconce in a secure zone with a specific set of values and code of conducts. Step carefully in this stage, because a terrorist also knows that he knows.) Stage 5 – An Observer (introspection or contemplation) – When you realize that our this source or tool, i.e., dictionary, is lacking somewhere and you become a silent or sometimes detached
observer. Actually everybody extracts, or is confined to, only a certain percentage of meaning of a simple dictionary word; some only up to 20 per cent, some 45 per cent and some more than 75 per cent, like Mahatma Gandhi who extracted the meaning of two simple words: “truth” and “non-violence”, and made his mark through these two dictionary words; and Hitler with the word “discipline”. This is the stage where citizens of the existing countries are in search of various preachers to know something which is not describable by their own-developed dictionaries and to borrow meanings from the dictionary of that preacher (in fact, every human being develops a specific dictionary during its lifetime and gets a sort of confined strength of mind to solve or at times further manifold problems). A stage when you know that you cannot describe some phenomena by these mere dictionary words; it is not sufficient. (When you know how much you don’t know.) Stage 6 – An Intellectual or Learned – When you use the dictionary words wisely for the welfare of society and your fellow countrymen, and now the society treats you as an
intellectual and an asset to the country. In this stage you are labeled as a renowned poet, musician, novelist, even businessman and scientist. (When you know what you know and what is the significant application of this knowing.) Stage 7 – An Awakened Soul – When you know, realize and understand where you put your last efforts, the reality of where you’re heading. Now what is next. The
religion that you followed till now was meant to discipline the material body and mind gifted for this birth. The person becomes
Spiritual, and the society ordains or treats that person as a
Spiritual leader and starts a religion, as per its mental strength, in his name. But now the spiritual entity is aware of the lackings in dictionary as mere words of mouth. (When you know that what all you were trying to know is effective but only to a certain visible limit). You actually have a calling name, a calling religion, friends, kinsmen, birth city or country to condition your body in an identity “to escape from the fear of losing yourself in this vast universal play.” Through religion you ring the bell of your material body to awaken or vitalize its spiritual essence; now is the time to see beyond the boundaries. And during the journey you cover the distance from one vision to another higher vision. An actual out-of-box-thinking process starts. Stage 8 –
Nirvana, A Gone Case – not for everybody, others replay the above stages again back to 1, 2 or 3 depending upon their growth rate. (A stage when you are not here to use this dictionary, but you are remembered, admired and
even sometimes enforced on others (i.e.,
convertees)
for how wisely you used this during your lifetime. The whole human race is subdivided virtually on the basis of using this common dictionary and its implementation further to fulfill circumstantial duties. All are users in our day-to-day life at various levels.
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