It was perhaps Einstein who first saw things from a frame of reference which never existed before in the world of physics. My mind boggles at the thought of how would this world look, sitting inside Einstein mind or may be Dev D. mind for that matter. Sure everyone knows that there are different frames or paradigms which exists in the world but the fact that the same world appears so much different when seen by different individual is what is exciting the hell out of me....an IIT undergraduate looks at 500 rupee note as a means of his weekend daaru/sutta/movie/food, for an autowala it is half of total revenue from his daily hard work which would sustain his auto, his family, at last himself, for a teenager gal it is a hair cut or a beauty parlor session, for a beggar its a miracle, for a investment banker it is a peg of JD. The obvious question "so what", anyways 500 rupee is just a means for satisfying different needs. I know ....but point here wasn't about how many ways one can utilize 500 rupee but; there is nothing out there its all inside..... :)
It was perhaps Socrates who first saw a self or a ego, a universe which was made of segregated materials and souls, together with Aristotle & Plato they laid down foundation of what we see today as western philosophy.Where individual material and souls exists in various relationships. Essentially opposite of western is eastern philosophy where universe is one, for western philosophy god is outside the universe above all directing this universe whereas for eastern philosophy god is inside in the heart of people. The two philosophies have created two different worlds. Clearly western philosophy is a market leader by volume with 90% market share.
By western I don't mean the geographical west world, although that is where it was born but today it is the most prevalent philosophy. The people living in the eastern globe by geography are also living in the world shaped by western philosophy.
Like stock market everything has a cycle what goes up has to come down....... if today western philosophy is booming then tomorrow eastern has to, I m not saying eastern is better or western because good or bad is again frame dependent. Current economic crisis is sign of power shifting from west to east who knows it might triggers end of another boom which is western philosophy.
It is clear I want to see eastern philosophy boom. But because isme sabh kaa bhala hain :)
Western philosophy has made us to see ourselves as individuals interacting with rest of universe, we always see value in what others have and no value in what we have, it is fundamentally a state of suffering. In such a frame need to evolve arises from unhappiness!
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