Einstein said, ‘I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.’
Einstein also said, ‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.’
Now, let us relate Einstein’s words with the realism of loneliness. What most people complain of when they say they feel bad about loneliness? It is connect they are speaking about. Scientists say that loneliness is all about a perceived ‘lack of connect’ with entities around in one’s ambient milieus. So, if we have this missing connect, we are never with the debilitating feeling of loneliness!
Well then let us have this magical and transcendental connect. Let us be objectively logical to accept that only real knowledge and wisdom connects. Spiritualism means connecting the microcosm with macrocosm. Yogic philosophy of India talked about the transcendental connects of self with cosmic consciousness, around 3000 years back for lasting wellness.
When we have real knowledge, we are truly connected with cosmic causality. A person who has the power of knowledge has the true connect with all causalities around him or her. That ensures, he or she is never lonely. Researchers conclude that those who are more educated and knowledgeable have lesser incidence of loneliness. It is easy to accept how knowledge is the real connect.
What Einstein is talking about is his transcendental curiosity and will to connect with true knowledge and wisdom. He was not interested in God but he was immensely and perpetually interested in knowledge about the core concept, which surrounds the idea of divinity. He was thrilled infinitely about all things that are mysterious, which humanity has not yet known. His curiosity and inquisitiveness is transcendental. He was always connected with every speck and detail around him. He was never lonely but deeply connected with rainbowish shades of his own consciously selected curiosities and inquisitiveness.
Most often, people with different ages feel the disconnect with people, their own milieus and larger purpose of life. Moreover, this disconnect or lack of connect brings about the very troublesome emotion of feeling alienated. Somehow, Einstein points out to this crucial fact that true and real connects is intangible – not physical but mental. Knowledge is the real and lasting connect with everything around us. Lasting wellness can come to us through lasting connect between generic elements and as our consciousness is intangible, its lasting connects can come only through intangibilities. Knowledge is the real intangible connect.
In contemporary cultures, the worst casualty is average person’s disconnect with instinctive human curiosity and inquisitiveness. Especially, the fast-paced life-living choices of our young generations and the clutter culture they live in, make them accept that knowledge is optional, even a burden. There is an insistence on living life, at the cost of ignoring knowledge about life-living essentials.
Einstein’s insistence is on perpetuity of the joy and thrill of knowing – connecting to everything in the cosmos, from people to ideas, through knowledge and wisdom. People of any age, whether they are kids, young or old; this inquisitiveness should always remain as primary energy of all actions and behaviours. There is nothing but knowledge that truly connects us with things other than us.
It is rare that a kid feels loneliness. He or she is always busy connecting physically as well as mentally to everything real or imaginary around him or her. Kids are wired for curiosity and inquisitiveness, even when societies usually smother their innate curiosities. However, as we grow, we stop to actually keep growing. We stop connecting. We stop the crucial linkages of knowledge. Modern cultures insist on education as means to acquire skills about jobs and careers but the crucial life-living knowledge is being sidelined. So, we may be skilled but not truly knowledgeable.
Therefore, Einstein is never lonely as he is always connecting and feeling joyous and thrilled, not in finding answers and solutions. He is thrilled as the very energy of inquisitiveness is good enough for him. He is thrilled by feeling connected to the process of delving into the mystical world – being connected to the art and science of inquisitiveness.
We too have to learn this mastery of the artistry of being in perpetually connect with this art and science of inquisitiveness about the mystical universe – everything around us, till life allows us time.
Knowledge connects, it keeps us thrilled and in joy of being inseparable part of the colossal whole. Yes, everyone is truly lonely in his or her pursuits of knowledge as this process is intangible and operative at the intangible level of consciousness. A consciousness filled with connects of inquisitiveness of knowledge lands us at this facilitative time-space realism of happy loneliness. We are then lonely and at our happiest best.
It is good to understand and accept the hypothesis that loneliness is your first intelligence, beckoning your drifted and fluxed consciousness to come out of it and start the journey of self-exploration. Most greats used this precarious energy of loneliness this way.
Buddha was a king’s son and was raised in all worldly endowments, with all the material glitter, glam and indulgence intentionally made splattered around him. He was young, had a beautiful wife and a lovely son. Still, he felt loneliness in his world of drift and flux. This lonely feeling paved way for him to attain Nirvana.
He left everything. As there was no poise of purpose within him, he felt unease and more loneliness. He later discovered that world had grief and troubles but leaving the world and turning a saint was no solution. He realized that it was the poised mind, which was the solution of all grief and troubles. He advocated self-actualization of this poised being, which in modern scientific lexicon is called higher consciousness. Buddha’s life-living philosophy is a very contemporary need. In all eastern spiritual traditions, there is this emphasis on self-actualization. They insist that all realisms are within this poise mind or higher consciousness. Even God is within this mind consciousness.
We all have a Buddha within ourselves. Who is a Buddha? Buddha means the enlightened and empowered. Therefore, being Buddha means actualization of the potential of our conscious self, which is already there within us. This potential is dormant, or un-evolved, or untouched in most of us.
Also, in all of us, there always happens a time and space, where we feel disenchanted with the world we live in and with the people we are surrounded with. As the scientists say, the very people and the very material consumptions, which make us thrilled and happy once, are the primary source of our disenchantment, heartbreaks and ultimately the loneliness. The Yoga philosophy said the same 3000 years back!
One evolutionary utility, which modern humans must accept with cautious usages, is reactionary cognition. Judgment and perception are never amenable for reactionary priorities. Just hold things, accept holism, accept that we all are instinctively aligned to and wired for reactionary choices. But modern living requires us to rise above our instincts because, peaceful-coexistence is the call of the time and we all have to use the intelligent mind for a holistic cognition.
There is a long scale of realism and on two extreme ends of the scale stand good and bad. We all know, there are very few, say .1% of global population, who are on the extreme ends of the scale – either too good or too bad. Most people stand somewhere in between the two ends and they are a mix bag of both good as well as bad. It is situational or time-specific life events, which make the majority of us reactionary – making such choices, which are just short-term reactionary. We have to accept that such reactionary choices are never real and right. Therefore, we all need to rise above the short-term cognition.
Moreover, it is also important to accept that majority of those standing in between the two ends of good and bad are the most susceptible of ‘indoctrination’. Some of them are made ‘puppets’ at the hands of some ‘confused and conflicted’ elements of society, who are very few. These indoctrinated people are also neither good nor bad but simply ‘puppets’, who are made to ‘wear’ a ‘cognition’, which they have not ‘tailored’. We have to accept that mainstream society should never make judgments and perceptions on the basis of ‘tailored cognition’ of some people.
It is as simple as that – Just hold your cognition and allow it to settle, whenever there is a big upheaval in the social or cultural system. Check your reactionary cognition and never allow yourself to say things or do things on the basis of your reactionary cognition. Always remember; good and right judgments and perceptions are never reactionary but always holistic. We all live in very tough times with loads of social and cultural upheavals all around us. Let us not make judgments and perceptions of the basis of reactionary cognition...
Having quality leisure time for ourselves, introspective moments with self in positive solitude is something, we all need to value. The drift and clutter of contemporary cultures and milieus around makes us reactionary. Being settled is good. Loneliness leads us to the doors...
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