Calculative and Meditative Thinking
Sometimes in the year 2014 in New
Delhi, I was listening to a speech delivered by one scholar and social activist,
the name of which I can’t remember today. He was speaking on the topic
– “Changing human behavior in modern age”. …….Calculative thinking is taking
over the Meditative thinking, where people just gather inestimable information;
put them together and use that for specific purpose in search of self benefit.
Success-failure, profit-lose are more important than the soul of thought. Aphorism
of life is re-scripted and spirituality is replaced by multiplicity of ideas. Meditative thinking tries to find root to soul
and to the body; motivate us to learn from the beginning to end about what and why
of the happenings in our surroundings. Meditative thinking gives birth to imagination,
then creativity and link road to the future. It is the creativity that binds
human beings with the sense of the responsibility and for future.
World will be in more chaotic condition because we have lost sense of
responsibility to others. World had the history of class struggle between ‘Have
and Have Not’ in the past, and today we try to say that that is over. But
nothing is over, even in this age also, where Right to Food is a law in all
most all countries of the world, there is still such situation prevailing,
where a section of people have the right to preserve food, and others have to
struggle for having that. Huge gaps of privileged and unprivileged, knowledge
seeker and knowledge controllers are creating again new class. Technology is controlled by wealthy people,
chasing achievement of life in their prescribed road map; we lose everything of
our foundation …......
Echoes of claps were heard and he was
praised by chair person of the function. Such a thought provoking deliberation
was outside my interest at that time. For me difference between calculative and
meditative thinking was not so important. Because as we know every working
people would be naturally calculative in nature and meditative thinking is for
creative people and thinker only. As a
listener, I also couldn’t but clap along with others in the hall.
After the elapse
of couple of decades, today I am re-connected by the soul of that speech just
for a few reasons. Reasons are : - (i) we
have lost interest of reading book, because we need to pay cash for that and it
consumes much time to go through. Contrary to that there are writings in net
for cheaper price, which are short, precise, informative and useful in life. Meaning,
searching of soul through the book reading is now old fashioned hobby for us. (ii)
We now just try to know the culture as how comfort of technology teaches us,
not the tradition. We want to enjoy it not to live in it, extract profit out of
that and never try to understand. (iii) Everything of society including politics
and religion, now survives in management and publicity concept, not on any
founded ideology or Ism. Organizational war of supremacy and dominance has
converted all those to merely a material being from the foundation of thought. (iv) We have seen the time where sons or
daughters have started disowning their moral responsibility towards parents.
Parallel to that parents have also lost much hopes from their children in their
future life. Reason is that calculation of life disallows such responsibilities
just because those are not manageable. Most
drastic change of fact is that calculation of practical life has seriously
influenced now the thought process of thinkers and their creativity too.
Ultimately
concluding line of speech is Calculative thinking gives us sense of management
with specific burden only, but Meditative thinking gives us about wholeness of
life and nature. But after all we are human being; we all are more or less
materialistic because, we are living in material world, where the calculation is
much needed to win in the competition of life. We shall always opt for the
path, which is convenient for the survival of individual life. But following
the rowdy race of life, we shouldn’t forget to think about the truth that, the creative thinking is not a product of any factory that can be assembled with
machinery. Our study and learning lessons should be a thorough process of
finding the root, knowing the present happenings and understanding its future. Materialism
shouldn’t be defined within the narrow space of avariciousness only; it also
should have space for new imagination for the future. All these can be realized
only by persons through in-depth learning processes and experiences of life.
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