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JOURNEY IN BEING ANIL MITRA Anil MITRA, © COPYRIGHT 2012 |
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BEING names what is |
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Being and world are known in experience which as theater of (human) being has crucial significance |
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The Being of experience is so immediate that it needs no proof |
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The power of Being is neutrality; of experience—immediacy |
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The UNIVERSE is All Being |
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Creation is a form of Being |
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The Universe contains all Creation |
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But is not created |
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A pattern or LAW has Being |
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(A Law is a limit—it allows |
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Some patterns, not others) |
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The Universe contains all Laws |
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The VOID is the absence of Being |
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It contains no Law and so has no limits |
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Every pattern, Law, or object |
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Emerges from the Void |
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The Void is ever present with the Universe or any part of it |
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Therefore the Universe has no limits |
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There is at least one Void |
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The number of Voids has no significance |
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The Universe has no
limits |
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Demonstration—items (1) through (5) |
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Meaning. But for the
freedom of concepts |
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‘Something from nothing’ is a trivial corollary |
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An interpretation—a scientific law or theory is a compound fact |
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Regarding a domain of valid knowledge |
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But implies nothing about the existence |
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Or nature of what lies outside |
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General Cosmology—Universe, Identity, and Power |
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The Universe has Identity in acute, diffuse, and non-manifest phases |
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This Identity has continuity across the non-manifest |
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The Universe is ultimate POWER—that is, degree of limitlessness |
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Journey. All individuals inherit (realize) the ultimate—the Universe and its Power |
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While limited in form, realization is endless process or journey in ideas and action |
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The journey is unlimited in variety, extent and duration of Being |
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For unlimited form realization is a single acute act of Being and perception |
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CIVILIZATION and individual are VEHICLES of realization. The individual fosters civilization which cradles the individual |
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The matrix of civilizations across the Universe is Civilization |
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In its internal and external endeavors civilization provides disciplines or means |
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‘SCIENCE’ and ‘YOGA’ will stand for the instrumental and disciplines of Being-becoming, respectively |
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Human Being. For the journey, the tension between human freedom and received human nature—and situation—is essential |
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Human Civilization. In understanding-action, social study must be integrated with participation-immersion and illuminated by the metaphysics |
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A powerful conception of RELIGION is as use of all dimensions of being in understanding and realizing All Being |
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The process of Religion is identical to the process of Civilization conceived ideally. The ways of transformation occasion finite, continuous, and embodied realization |
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Being and its Transformation (Synthesis I) |
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All times and places—Yoga practice and action; death and crisis |
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Here and now: immediate—routine, write, exercise, diet, chores, and honesty |
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Culture—care and sharing; charisma and initiative; moral behavior; abandon |
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Nature—gateway to ultimate, immersion, inspiration, and catalyst |
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Civilization of the Universe (Synthesis II) |
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Organic—Civilization as matrix—individual transformation, sharing; communication and charisma |
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Artifact—or artifactual Being. Ideas regarding artifact—artificial intelligence and life; ontology, cosmology, cognitive science |
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A Vision For Our World. In the ideal the good of the whole and of the parts coincide |
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Political-economic principles and action |
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Culture—science, art, technology, and symbol |
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Religion—Being in all its dimensions in realization of All Being |
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An Individual Journey—a description and ongoing report of this journey in process |
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Ideas. I find that the ideas are never complete. However, I feel that relative maturity of ideas has been achieved |
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Transformation of Being. Ideas are an incomplete part of transformation. Essential transformation is at a beginning |
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Civilization. My involvement, which begins with this work and its motives, has some definition above |
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The Future. This place is held for accounts of the journey—ideas, transformation, goals—as it unfolds |
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Influences and sources. General influences are defined by the world and cultures in which I have lived. Though diffuse and often in the background these influences are immensely significant |
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Individuals whose lives have been exemplary. The great statesmen and religious leaders are among my inspirations |
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Philosophy. The main influences include ideas on the nature of the Universe from Indian Philosophy. From the thought of the west I have learned much about meaning, and the nature of Being, Logic, Mathematics, and knowledge |
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Science. Science has served as inspiration in many ways, especially in interacting with the metaphysics |