Virtual reality

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Let us examine knowledge and its functions as well as its capacities
and dimensions. Knowledge requires a platform to operate, which called
language. As a beginning, will it not be easy to explore what we speak
and write? How do we acquire linguistic skills? Is not the word an
abstract entity all by itself? Finally, are we using the word or used
by it?
To think of thinking is the need of the day, but do we know what
thinking is or do away by the process itself? Word is a window to its
knowledge and feelings generated. The teacher and taught, without two
elements there is neither education nor the world we visualize. The
same gap is from word to real, since the word apple is not real, so
the gap is the problem. To solve this problem are we not creating
innumerable problems? Simply we say that the problem lies in ones own
perception, alternatively the world we experience.
Do we aware of the functioning of linguistic patterns or just carried
away by presumptions and assumptions, which are part of linguistic
ideology? It is surprising to note that all philosophical statements
are logical derivations. Logic based on two, one is constant and the
other is variable. Out of these we derive, the third, which is a name,
imposed on real. Name – its image – feeling – idea, the steps we call
functioning of language. Linguistic operation is three dimensional in
its volume, directional, and dynamic in its character. Is it not the
whole of the intellect, which we carry all the time with different
names, such as mind, heart, consciousness, inner world etc?
Knowledge is the outcome of interactive principle which is result
oriented in its conceptual form. Therefore, concept drives humans to
its result. However voluminous in its stature and predictive in its
character still it is partial and indirect by its nature. The
relational arrangement between nouns – verb – tense is the relational
attitude between subject and object. This relation may be rational or
irrational. Opposites ingrained in language, so pessimism verses
optimism, order – disorder, theism – atheism, and so on rooted in
language but not anywhere in nature. Essentially languages constructed
for memorizing past events and experiences so to refine them in
present. Even the refined state of consciousness is inadequate to meet
the present. Therefore, there is continuous strife for better
knowledge in the world in which we live. By its very inception,
knowledge is divisive phenomena hence can offer division only. It is
the witness to its own activity, which is the reason of its expansion.
These are the grounding factors for conceivable reality and
experience. Memory is past and functioning in present and projects the
future project.
It is clear that the trio KNOWER – KNOWN – KNOWLEDGE is all past and
time bound. If there is no transformation to intelligence, this
knowledge remains a mere tin. Formulas require explanation.
Explanation may be in the shape of a song, dance, and drama but there
is every chance of deriving mythical ideology, so to save from this
kind of diversions, there is philosophical enquiry. Enquiry is full of
logic, which is based on mathematics, when not used in conjunction of
subject, express disastrous and conflicting statement
Knowledge is a cluster of statements. Essence of accumulated knowledge
is called as intuition, which instigate, HOW? Word as is an image and
its produced image is mounted upon primary image. Two lifeless images
are interacting because of sound.
The whole of thought process depends on calculation. Movement of
thought is calculation, but only factual but not real. Natural
intelligence is covered by accrued intellect like fire is covered by
smoke, mirror is covered by dust, but smoke is taken for granted as
fire. Since there is no clear distinction between factuality and
reality, all suffocated ideas are expressed as real. Ignorance verses
intelligence, these two opposites are responsible for tons of
literature. Phenomenal approach to language may solve problems since
it deals with what we see, hear, feel etc in contrast to what may be
real and true about the world we feel and live.
We have to bear in mind that we are exploring virtual world, otherwise
known as linguistic knowledge, which has a fraction of relation with
the real. This relation is only with image, which we get out of sound.
Sound and touch are the basic ingredients to formulate a picture. Our
so-called mind is nothing but the analysis of these pictures. Here we
are not going to propose any new idea or concept but investigating the
gifted knowledge from our ancestors and trying to find out its
relative strength, which we inherit as a language. So let us begin
with our own mother tongue, which we learn in the form of a song,
story, an epic, or sayings, which stand as a translator throughout the
rest of our lives. We call this translator as mind, heart, etc. We
live in a pluralistic world which in fact is not real but a virtual
one, which is also called MAYA (Sanskrit).
Belief plays a vital role in our lives, without which, we cannot even
imagine. Thus, derived imagination is the stepping-stone for entire
human activity. Language is not as simple as it appears to be.
Arranged relation between sound and symbol and their picture is
thought and its provocation, now the question is whether it would be
possible to examine this invisible provocation? If with what?
Relation with a mirror is the same with a language. Whatever formulae,
theories, explanations, and concepts thus derived are only limited to
those images which help our movement both inside and outside.
Habituated to live in a conceptual environment, without which we feel
homeless. Yet we talk of mukthi, moksha, freedom etc. This we may call
self-deception. Education through a language advocated since eons.
Veda (Sanskrit) means to know and this functions over two, one is
(memory) smrithi and the other is sruthi (order of sound) but both are
invisible. Therefore, there are different names for the outcome of
combinations and permutations. Unfortunately, we hang on to these
names. All invisible feelings are generated in-between two images, one
is of self and the other is of the object, and the activity continues
forever until there is true enquiry. Then only knowledge acquired can
function in a sane order.
KUMARILA BHATTU (Vedic exponent) said that words convey their own
meanings, not related to something else. Descriptive sentences are
significant. Sentence meaning as composed of separate word meanings
held together in a relational structure. Word meaning formed is the
simplest unit of sense. Persons thus learn the meaning of words by
seeing others talking as well as from advice of elders.
MANDAN MISRA said that phenomenal distinctions are unreal and
appearance of immutable word essence.
K LANGER said that language is only means of articulating thought.
Essential act of thought is symbolization. World of humans made of
symbol and its meaning.
PRABHAKARA said that all knowledge is verbal which is inferential in
its character.
HUXLEY said that we sin by attributing concrete significance to
meaningless pseudo knowledge as real understanding. We are amphibians
living simultaneously in the world of experience and the world of
notions.
SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY explains that the language is the base of
intellectual games we play with ourselves. It is responsible for the
division of SEER – SEEN which is an egocentric ideology. This virtual
reality is the cause and its effect of illusion.
PATANJALI YOGA describes that two different feelings like pain and
pleasure never occur simultaneously. Inference we derive out of a
paragraph is only feeling.
POORVA MEEMAMSA said every symbol is a picture and its experience is
SEER. Entire linguistic pattern is only indicative. So the index and
indicated are images. Combinations of several meanings of words are
the meaning of a paragraph.
GOUDAPADA (mandookya karikalu) explained that cause and its effect are
interdependent and prone to change.
SANKARA Acharya said that group of symbols is a word and expression of
these words is creation. However, mature logical ideology may be still
it is partial and different from the real. Negation of all
psychological impressions is to be wise.
PANINI (Creator of Sanskrit grammar) warned to check phonetics to
understand the cause of difference in time. Sound is traveling in the
human body in the shape of symbol. Totality of A to Z is self and its
practices.
JIDDU KRISHNA MURTHY said that word is not the real thing.
NAGARJUNA said that the experience and reason do not give us genuine
knowledge.
RAMANUJA said that we could not prove the existence of an object
without attributing, even in case of self-consciousness and in the
object of intuition.
WITTGENSTIEN Main source of our failure to understand is that we do
not command a clear view of the use of our words.
VIDYARANYA (panchadasi) Because of verbal sounds we get pictures of
existing objects and a doubt. This happens even when there is no
object.
What we are destroying is the house of cards and clearing the ground
on which they stand. Philosophy does not result in propositions, but
rather in clarifying them. The end of language is the end of human
world.