Reality and Political Economy

This is a piece i wrote a month ago (10th July, which was the day of the Puri Jaggannath Ratha Yatra), and circulated to a friend or two. Not a typical article on this otherwise intentionally "practical" political blog of mine. However, the last paragraph also connects to a piece i intend to post around the time of the Indian Independence Day (15th Aug.).

As With Reality, So With Political Economy

By V. Shruti Devi

Whatever the consciousness focuses on more strongly, whatever you are able to tilt in such a fashion so as to create a new balance, defines the middle. From the myriad aspects (or degrees), of consciousness that exist, whatever manifests itself prevails as the perceived reality and truth. The act of manifesting to the ‘normal’ bandwidths of the human capacities of sight, hearing, smell and physical sensations is as proximate, in terms of absolute relativity, to the act of manifesting to other bandwidths.

Thus, manifestations of all kinds, and through all media, are aspects of the ultimately infinite reality. Each manifestation (ranging from manifestations of the diversity of human and non-human gene pools of micro organisms on our planet, to manifestations of elements, their compounds, and the diversity of ecosystems they constitute), is an indicator of the ultimate, infinite reality which is something that might remain beyond the interpreting-capacity of the majority of the human population in the near future. The more conditioned the minds of humans are, by experiences related to the ego, the less is the likelihood of realising (or accepting), the fact of the ultimate infinite reality.

To carry this thought into two aspects of the workings of human society: Resources and Religion.

Humans have displayed, over time, a propensity to wage war, both internal and external, primarily for the survival-related phenomena of accessing the resources of the planet in their various forms and scientific refinements through various means, including the use of religious domination and religious exclusion in society.
 

At the level of the Inner Self: The quest for the highest balance of matter (light being one of the phases of such formulation) as in the practising of the Gayatri mantra; the inner jehad of Islam; the quest for redemption in Christianity; possibly the applications of modern psychology, or the simple act of meditation, and in fact, “thinking”, in all its forms, can all be described as struggles to reach the best possible version of reality.

Those who do not engage with any of these aspects or degrees of inner struggle are those who possess or have arrived at a predominantly balanced quality of consciousness at a given point of time. When such inner balance reaches a durable quality, then it becomes temporally possible to tap into hitherto undiscovered aspects of infinity without disturbing the balance.

Much of modern civilization has pursued the race for resources in an arguably delusional fashion. However,  Kimaya (or Magic), to loosely translate and borrow a Pashto tribal term, can be wrought from alternative pre-religious levels of consciousness that have managed to survive and revive in the form of some of the values and ways of what is today described as ‘tribal society’.

These possibly “superior” ways and paces of interacting with nature and consciousness might hold the keys to a more infinity-friendly balance to launch the current population and future generations into currently intangible definitions of attainment and excellence.

The thoughts put forward here surface from various levels of subconscious storage, information overload, the experiential gamut, to name a few.

A book written in 2012, entitled Churning The Earth, The Making of Global India, written by an economist and an environmentalist, present some well-researched ideas on how to accelerate the tapping of the true potential of our planet. It argues that “true globalization” is “yet to happen”. There are also “stories from the future”, which relate a few examples of how the change for a more sustainable world has already begun.

With these tidings while writing this on the day of the Jaggannath Ratha Yatra (a deity that traces its origins to the minds of the tribal people of the Eastern Ghaats, and that has been embraced by Hinduism), i conclude with the hope that the Satya Yuga (or the Age of Truth), will manifest everywhere. It is expected to sprout from amidst chaos, and in scattered cases of positive thought and action.