FALLACY OF SELF-ILLUMINATION!

We, a group of people, though insignificant in numbers, but, arrogantly claim that, we are “Illuminated”! What actually ‘illumination’ is? Having big data, analyzing it in terms of market propensity, judging the potentials to gauge it profitability? Sometime, through some advice based on pragmatic approach and some instant tactics we adopt in accordance to the available circumstances, judging about the inclination of an event, whether it is developing or decaying, we tend to draw an inference, and inducing others to follow the normative or empirical methods, and eventually declared us as self-innovators or entrepreneurs.

Lovely metamorphosis we ponder upon, attracting others with our alluring strategy and virtually christened ourselves as “self-illuminated”. We seldom consider, how 'history' plays the major role of our entire process of evolution and how past predominantly propound and engulf us, enabling us to evolve with much superior intellect, comparing to the past level of intellect of our ancestors. The reflections of nature received by them on their time in accordance to their social and economic state they confronted was quite superior too in respect to their time and the continuity is in progress till date. Combating the constraints being faced by the present generation in terms of the reflections they are receiving from the nature, as well confronting with the social and economic strata they are belonging with, enabling them to express their mettle proportionate to the merit historically they asserted. So, 'illumination' is equally an inevitable historical process where individual's role and endeavor is pretty insignificant.

Everything in this world is in motion, having certain magnitude and even an objective, primarily focusing on a certain perspectives. To attain our objective, the empirical tactics we follow, occasionally bring success to us, in terms of our desired goal.

But, sometimes, we fail to evaluate the character of the motion we are prevailing with. It moves spirally and in the due course of its movement, it sometimes appears to be a static one, on contrary to our traditional beliefs that it may always sustain in kinetic state.

Secondly, we sometimes falter to evaluate whether the available matter is in developing or in decaying state. Occasionally we may confuse by its ostentation and infer its state as developing, where as it might be in a decaying phase, and predict its fate to be advancing towards its zenith gradually. Lack of judging its state and its trend and potentials, we often face failures.

Advent of technology and its predominance largely affecting our corporate lives. But, it alone cannot solve the problems in terms of the complex design of a matter and to evaluate correctly about its proclivity and eventual fate, if we are in a fix to observe in a static platform, failing to analyze it in its proper state. Our imagination is a product of reflection of matters available in nature as well the moving phenomena we observe in the available social and economic fabric, which itself follows a natural process, necessarily with a blind trait as compare to the nature.

Nature is blind. But, human beings, having vision as well aspiration and apprehension, being emanated from the observation of nature and its surroundings by virtue of his senses, construe him as the most supreme creatures of all lives in this planet. A unique tool it possesses, the ability of observation, and eventually judges a matter by virtue of reflection nature produces in his brain, inducing human being to alienate himself from nature. A process it follows at random with a conscious effort to change the course of matter. Now, this process also guide the course of a matter in such a fashion which is also a product being reflected from the society he is dwelling with, resulting him to resort to a mechanism, which may facilitate him to attain his aspiration. 

Consequently, ‘illumination’ too has certain magnitude. If one is considered as an ‘illuminated person’, obviously his emission of light would follow a pathway with alacrity to create a bunch of targeted beneficiaries who will be aligned with his wave length and ready to dance in his tune and bring accolades for him, making him larger than life! At the same time by initiating a devise, he will garner huge wealth and generate revenues for a group whose interest he is destined to serve. We may tend to coin with various terminologies to eulogize this ‘illuminated soul’ in accordance to our fancy as long he is capable to satiate our aspiration.

But, ‘illuminating’ majority will engender huge energy, making an upside down development to any available social fabric, where instead of any individual, collective ‘illuminated souls’ will generate, producing huge energy and bring overhaul to the entire social fabric.

However, we cannot rule out, every individual is obsessed with himself at first and his own name, fame becomes his only aim. Eventually the definition of ‘illumination’ gained a different dimension, where we tend to believe that, an ‘innovation’ is the brain child of an individual. He might alone possess this unique skill, ushering others to ‘illuminate’. This conception triggers him to think that, it is first necessary to ‘illuminate’ himself, than ‘illuminate’ others. As if, it is an exquisite matter only hidden in few individual’s brain! As a result, ‘illumination’ sometimes turns in to ‘hallucination’.

For instance, a person with his knowledge in physics explained one, why the color of sky is blue. But, unless the nature appears as blue to us, is it possible for him to ‘illuminate’ us with his wisdom regarding the colors? Besides, who have gifted with eyes, for them it is easy to explain. But, a blind man, who have no such perception of color, for him, by virtue of other senses he have to be perused and it requires different method too to ‘illuminate’ him. The qualitative value of color in nature with its dispensation quality, eventually could be ‘illuminated’ to him, triggering him to unearth and explore in his own way of thinking, utterly different from the person capable of identifying colors by virtue of his eyes. But, the matter will remain unchanged in terms of its quality, whether to blind person or the person who is capable to see.

 So, the ‘illumination’ is a process, primarily dominated by nature and the existence of matter in nature, followed by the reflection it produces in our brain, triggering us to be ‘illuminated’, irrespective of any individual’s influence or endeavor. ‘Illumination’ is an eventuality, being ushered by the nature alone, and the circumstantial conditions are the only responsible factors, enabling one to be ‘illuminated’.

One cannot be alone ‘illuminated’, aiming to cause betterment for the majority by his own whims. It is the reflection being produced in his brain by nature. It is necessarily a collective method, resulting an organization to thrive, and here lies the team effort, the primary criteria for the overall development of an organization, institution and even for a nation. An individual is nothing but a part of a whole. May be, a useful component, but not the only component, having the potential to act as a wizard, bringing magical impact to the society.

A lightening can cause huge fire to the forest. But, lightening is a consequence of process of mass value in nature, making a qualitative change to the available environment, enabling to produce huge heat energy.

So, ‘illumination’ is nothing but a form of energy primarily being generated out of time and space, resulting an overwhelming change to available circumstances. But, the elements, which are ‘illuminated’ having the potentialities to be ‘illuminated’, paving the way for initiating change to an available social and economic fabric.

These ‘illumination’ virtually capable to produce numerous luminaries and we sometimes being confused by its glow, consider themselves as the principal agents, enabling to ‘illuminate’ us.

Thus, the cult worshipping emerged with the social fabric we are dwelling, and as being exercised for a long time of adoring these cult figures, it has been strongly ingrained in our faculty, utterly manufactured by our own design, having no resemblance with the nature’s phenomenon.

We have numerous examples, where a statesman, who is responsible for genocide, is being nominated for awarding Nobel Prize for peace! What a ‘Illumination” we have observed!

Unless, ‘Illumination” is being focused on mankind and humanity become the primary agenda, the fallacy of ‘self-illumination’ will remain infinitely, making the scenario of ‘illumination’ more complex and confusing.