General
Worth Pondering Over
Mr. Anil Saraogi
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The modern "erudite" man is obsessed with reasoning & logic and proof of rationale before he or she would accept anything. And he is almost always on a witch-hunt to spurn anything new that comes across him. However all the stellar strides of the mankind go on to suggest that all of them were considered absurd and ludicrous by the contemporary scholars. But it is worth pondering that had Copernicus, Galileo been overwhelmed by the then existing knowledge base, could they have initiated anything that would go against the works of well established scholars of their time, like Aristotle? In
fact, mankind has progressed only because of the inner instincts of
the few who dared to sail against the wind.
We must understand that logic and rationale only capture
& reflect the existing knowledge base and can never form the
basis of discrete and seminal advancement of humanity. Take for
example, way back in 1687, when Sir Isaac Newton proposed his laws
of motion, in a layman's language it came to be reflected as
"Everything that goes up eventually comes down" And, in
fact this was loosely corroborated by the law of gravitation. Over
the next two and half centuries, this had been well entrenched into
the psyche of the scientists. Most of it could not think otherwise.
But just imagine, our life in 2006 AD, had some crazy scientist at
NASA not dared to think beyond. In fact even the thought perplexes me and I
cannot see anything but medieval life. Perhaps
the following words from the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung ( 1875-
1961) capture the essence in the crispest way: The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but
by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind
plays with the objects it loves. - Carl
Jung (1875-1961) Swiss
Psychiatryst
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