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All We Know Is That We Do Not Know

Article Summary by: varghese    

Original Author: Prof.P.A.Varghese


There is birth, growth, romance, death, love, passion, and death. There is a tear and a joy. There is the

pursuit for money, pleasure, peace and happiness. But ultimately there is a realty: death. So far it has been the only tangible reality. Why this birth, growth, passion for pleasure, money and possessions? Everything is destined for darkness?


Or why not this birth, growth, quest for bliss and everything else? Where does this very thought emanate from? How can I be conscious of what I do?  What is this life? Whence this come from? And how? Where does this go? Why?


Is there after the darkness?


Is there anything before the light?


Did the birth into the light and the death into the darkness preplanned or accidental?


Well, what we know is that we do not know.


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Who or what we exactly are? Why we exist, our planet and this universe? All of us must have experienced these basic questions at some moment or other. There are many who have attempted to give some answers to these questions. But the vast majority do not allow such thoughts to interfere with their lives. And very few try to achieve a holistic view. .


There are millions who try to answer these questions from a particular perspective. There are millions of others who seek answers for them from science. But very few try to analyze them unbiased.


The Theo-centric ones attribute everything here to a supernatural, omniscient, omnipotent and everlasting being. They find a purpose for creation. Examination on close quarters  will rip this theory apart and reveal chasm of darkness all around.


Science tries to explain everything in terms physical, chemical gravitational and other scientific laws.. But they fail to explain the very beginning of matter or energy, the why and how of it. 



Published: April 16, 2008
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