The Perspective Enigma

  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 o...

Our world, the mother Earth, was formed long ago than we can imagine; that is 4.543 billion years estimated by the scientists. 3.8 billion years ago life originated and 2.1 billion years ago eukaryotes evolved. The human ancestors have been around for 6 million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. But the civilization as we know in our human history is only 6,000 years old. But that is not only is it? Industrialization started in 1800s and  rest is a history. Industrialization transformed our cities and the world we see today is because of this great age of ideas. How did the civilizations began and when? It is still something which is debatable. We started from hunters and gatherers to Nomadic lifestyle and later shift to permanent settlements, that's when the civilization began.  It all started from clustered communities and an idea of settled lifestyle; its also the origin of living closely with the families and frie...