Is Logic styling itself into Dogma?

 We all have grown up grown up listening to our teachers, professors and from over all academia and even reading about it that how Dharmic stories are fictional or if refined further with a seeker attitude that these Puranic stories are personification of certain elements or attributes. Puranas and Vedas for obvious reasons appear out to be completely fictional to the rational human mind and it is obvious. People find it comparatively easy to digest other 2 Itihaas documents/poetry like Ramayana and Mahabharata while Puranas appear to be more abstract to the human mind. The major question arises here, is it personification of certain concepts to teach lessons to the humans or is it all real?

Art by Develv (Deviant Art): Portfolio.

Majority of the people will go out with the first option because of the in drilled “scientific temperament” by the institutions which are the reservoir of coloniality in Bharat and rest of the world. It compels you to weigh the stories with the lens of logic and illogic. The overall idea of this article is not to propagate that what is written in Puranas is real or fictional but the idea is to appeal to fellow seekers that do not be quick enough to label out any even from the ancient texts without transcending the mind itself.

We decide that a particular individual is scientific in approach on the basis of how logical one may sound. But the real question is that is Logic the best way of understanding the cosmos really? In the modern world Science and Religion are seen as each other’s rival. Religion indeed is the rival of science, but as you might remember from the previous articles from ”The Perspective Enigma”, which happens to be a blog based on the series of well-connected articles with an underlying idea of how cosmic civilizations dominated in the past, you might have as well understood the primary difference between Dharma and Religion. Dharma is not the rival of science as opposed to Religion which is more of a western & West Asian (Middle Eastern) concept. But the current day or modern science of 21^st has taken a different trajectory all over and tries to force itself as superior to rest other form of sciences. In ancient Bharat “Vigyaan” and “Adhyatma” were not seen as a separate thing. Same goes with Ancient Greek society where Science was seen as a branch of Philosophy. Same is the idea which Astrophysicist, Historian and Geopolitics analyst- Abhijit Chavda resonates. Given below is the criticism by Harbir Singh Multania on modern science or the current approach towards science-  

 

Artist- Anirudh/molee; Deviantart

“I am starting to turn into a science skeptic. Not Science itself but the profession of science as it is being practiced currently and has been in recent decades. It's as if science and academia has become one big mafia of data and statistics. Anything that looks statistically sound is valid, anything that can't be statistical shown or disputed is not. Doing this work are countless "scientists" who are high IQ and driven as hell but who have no intuition whatsoever for seeking out truths and realities from genius ability to mentally weave scraps of information into a comprehension of reality.

This is a disaster. Academia cannot today create Einstein, Higgs, Wegener because it has become an industry of grants, tenures, publications where everything is weighed and rewarded on the basis of statistical provability before bureaucratic systems.

I used to have rock solid confidence in scientists (those of the west anyway) because I have unimpeachable faith in the scientific method. But it becomes clear now that the bureaucracy and administration of science has created an army of bureaucrats acting like they're doing science but their output is just statistically validated meaningless drivel. As variables change or their values change, the results change. From climate science, finance and economics, drug trials, flossing and fat consumption, to terrorism scholarship, gender studies, anthropology, and international conflict and development, across the board MATLAB and STATA certified bullshit has crowded out genuine discovery.

I think it's a crisis of science that is going ravage academia in the coming decades as more and more "scientists" compete for research opportunities, positions, and grants even while the usefulness and credibility of their results declines and creates skepticism amongst those who have to fund all this and then be bound by its "findings".

That's not to say that real, good, intuitive, imaginative science is not happening. It is. And while these folks will also suffer in the coming crush, they will be the only ones standing when the smoke clears.” – Harbir Singh Multania, Analyst.

 
Art by- RowenHeBing: Portfolio on Deviantart

I would like to take you back to the very definition of LOGIC on which we pursue science. Logic is basically a process of reasoning conducted or assessed according to the strict principles of validity.

Basically it is an assessment based on what appears out to be valid for humans and hence we call the person rational who is in accordance to logic. Validity of any event is based on the simple factor- whether this happened or not. So basically validity along with advancements in the world with time keeps adding and transforming the dictionary of LOGIC. It is an automatic updating dictionary. So the next time any dogmatic science nerd who follows modern science as a religion calls you illogical, you may as well tell them that theory of relativity was also illogical for humans back in the 20^th century because it did not appear to be valid in front of five senses of humans and the human intelligence.

 Lord Indra

Anirudh/molee: Deviantart Portfolio

Basically LOGIC is a narrow framework of intellect through which humans are trying to perceive the cosmos. No wonder why stories of Indra Dev, Surya Dev, Vayu Dev, Lord Brahma with three heads baffles the human mind and it goes to automatic denial mode that it cannot be true. The denial is the self-defensive mechanism of the human mind in order to safeguard its own sanity. Sanity- an illusion, which itself is based on noted self-observations of (your mind of) the Maya or Matrix we live in. The concept of Maya and Matrix looks even more sensible once you understand string theory and even quantum theory. Same Quantum theory which Werner Heisenberg compared with Vedanta- an ancient Hindu text on the secrets of Brahmaand.  

Art by- Chewin06: Deviantart Portfolio

To put it simply, imagine time traveling to the medieval period and walking in the Rajya Sabha of Samrat (Emperor) Krishnadevaraya of Vijaynagar Empire and you tell the people about future technologies. How will you describe Internet to them without using any terms which are in modern use, because then they will not understand? If you explain how internet works then it will sound like some mythical tale to the people of the greatest South Indian Hindu Empire of the 14^th century. The Sabha will either call you unsound or might label you as a man of the divine world. Move forward 200 years from the event to the Mughal period when the same story reaches to the ears of Turkic Ruler sitting in Dilli, he will probably think it is a complete myth. It is not the fault of the invader either entirely to label it as a myth because the story entirely appears to be illogical to him. 200 years later, now coming to the early 20^th century a reasonable Hindu might not wish to discard entire story about the divine man who spoke about Internet in a different way to the people of 14^th century, but will still definitely find it hard to accept it as it is. Natural proceedings towards learning more about this event will begin with appropriations and assumptions that maybe some parts (of the story) were later exaggerated or possibly inserted by the invaders to make us look illogical. Other half of appropriation will lead to setting up the story in that contemporary framework of logic of the early 1900s (colonial India) and then label the un-understandable or what appears to be illogical part as some abstract for something else.

 The above example does not claim that Ramayana or Mahabharata has to be taken word to word and literally because these are prose set in poetic fomat. But one should remain humble enough to bow down and simply say “I am seeking answers, I do not know anything in entirety”. This opens a room for realization that there is world which may not sound logical but can be a reality.

Art by- rkamalart: Deviantart Portfolio

 Graham Bruce Hancock is British science-based journalist who proposed the idea that everything you can imagine exists at some part of the universe. If not as a whole then at least as elements. This concept is also present in the previous article of “The Perspective Enigma” by the name “Perceiving with Disabling Knowledge”.  I will strongly recommend each one of my reader to also check out that article if you have not read it. This idea arises from a notion that mind is incapable of imagining something new as a whole which may not exist at all. So when we imagine fictional creatures it need not mean that the exact creature exists in entirety in some corner of the cosmos but it may exist partially the way you imagined. Maybe the imagination itself might be a combination of 2 or more fragments and characters of the cosmic creature. It is an interesting theory because if we come to think of it we necessarily do not imagine an entire new space in dream ever. It may appear as strange to you because of the mixing up of the elements but all those places exist in some forms.

 

Zeus Artwork by Annina Weber: Art Station Portfolio

The main question is how can you identify what is real and what is unreal if indeed the universe is just a Maya. Read “Vuja De” another article (from “The Perspective Enigma”) based on the similar concept which elaborates upon the fundamental nature of the Universe, cosmic strings vibrations and how your thoughts itself manifests reality.

So Logic need not reveal the reality of the universe and it is in a way even turning people dogmatic. Our over reliance in our 5 senses & intellect is such that whatever is larger than the narrow framework of logic is incompressible for human mind. As Carl Sagan said, Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Building blocks of this “Logical, Mathematical & Scientific” Universe which humans perceive is based on illogical phenomena. You can never find the logic behind the existence of the Brahmaand. This is why Puranas & Vedas appear illogical to the human mind. Our mind cannot comprehend anything beyond 3 dimensional space. We have never really seen any 1 dimensional cosmic string either which makes up quarks, leptons, bosons and those 3 makes up a nucleus of an atom with certain configurations. We may never know the presence of 4 dimensional and higher dimensional beings if we try to seek them with modern scientific mind.

We are trying to decipher nonphysical phenomenon with physical apparatus. This is why is science is going towards stagnation now. Until we transcend beyond the current state we can never perceive new realities of unexplored dimensions.   

Can River Ganga turn into a Goddess or is it just a personification? If it is a personification of the river then how was Bhishma born? Or will you label it fictional? These are some questions I will like to leave it for readers here and comment below your thoughts.

Goddess Ganga by Deva & Elv or Devel: Deviantart Portfolio