A Proposition

The truths we may know.
The Truth is not knowledge.
It’s only an unending quest.
It’s in the quest, one sheds his ego.
Yet, he doesn’t know; he cannot know.
But at sometime in his unceasing quest
he becomes love,
And becomes the Truth himself.

Niraj Kumar Jha

An Irony

When you believe in yourself,
the world too bestows its faith on you.
But when somebody is condemned to question everything,
how can he believe in his self too?

Niraj Kumar Jha

Save the Knowledge from Yourself.

Negate yourself to let knowledge prevail. Your persona should never subsume the knowledge you seek to impart. This subverts the knowledge even if it tends to be valid.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Spiritualising and Philosophising

Spiritualising soothes; philosophising distresses. One is about meaninglessness; the other about meanings. One is about timelessness, the other about times. Retire or remain restless. The choice is yours.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Spirituality and Religion

Yuval Noah Harari says (in his interview to TOI, Sep 2,2018) that spirituality is about questions and religion is about answers. I think this to be unlikely. Both spiritualism and religion respond to the inexplicable existential riddles and anxieties. Only difference is that one seeks to soothe his nerves by using his faculty and the other by his agency. The problem with the other is that he is very troublesome.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Random Notes

• When a race suffers slavery for a millennium, they assume the running of the apparatus of slavery by themselves as the state of freedom.
• Philosophical fatigue triggers religious fervour. 

Questioning the Rationale of Creation

My simple contention is why let noumenal prevail over phenomenal, or essential over formal, or unity over diversity, or eternal over ephemeral. If we are believers and do the opposite, then we question the rationale and ridicule the effort of creation.

Niraj Kumar Jha