Adjectives

We use adjectives to qualify nouns – No big deal, all of us know this!  But then, these qualifications are RELATIVE and are with respect to some norm or standard. A strict boss, a kind person, a smart employee, an intelligent boy etc.  Do we not pass judgement while affixing these adjectives?

Who determines strictness, kindness, smartness, intelligence…………………? Aren’t these very relative and subtle? What purpose do they serve? 

Let me give an example here, which many of you from the corporate world can relate. There are many times, when we say:  “He is a good candidate “, OR “He is a reject “- a remark made mostly based on their knowledge of the subject.  The truth is that no one is good or bad. Only that this person is not aligned to a specific requirement, at this moment in time. What is knowledge – is a subject in itself.

We can comprehend the above, but what we fail to comprehend and internalize is: what is “success” and “failure”?  We are quick to label someone as successful, based on our frame of reference and not on the beholder’s frame.  A little reflection will convince you that this is the truth. 

Now that you have agreed on this concept, let me stretch this logic a bit further. Let me illustrate this with a simple analogy here. Our ears can hear sounds only of certain frequencies and SEE light of a band of frequencies. Does that mean, there are no other frequencies of sound or light? Of course not, and science as it exists today has proven that communications happen beyond the above ranges.  So it will be wrong to conclude that there is no music or beauty in the other frequency range of sound or light.

We have always believed that human form is the ultimate in terms of evolution from other species, as far as our definition of good, great, intelligent etc. are concerned.  This is because we SEE manifestations of behaviour and we have defined them as good or bad.  There are certainly other organisms, which can communicate and enjoy at other frequencies, which are beyond our comprehension.  This being the case, it is quite probable that the “Lower” forms of organisms are really the “Higher” form – closer to the SUPREME.  Do we not often allude to “the good old days” and how things were much better, in the days of yore?  Is this not contrary to the direction of evolution? 

What we have been trying to grapple above is the circular nature of life / evolution / duality – In reality there is no beginning or an end, which means evolution has no direction. What we perceive as duality is only relative. When we say that the second’s needle of a clock moves in a clockwise direction, it is true, when viewed from the front of the clock, but when viewed from behind the clock, the same second’s needle is moving anti clockwise. That is the conundrum.