Implication

These legal terms are at times much more honest, outspoken than most people around! Perhaps, that is why, the ‘conditions (that) apply’ are in very fine print!

What about the converse implications? In our day-to-day life, we often tend to overlook the impact, the consequences of these types of implications. Whenever we are too emphatic about our preferences, choices, etc, we are incurring the wrath of ‘excluding’ someone/something else that deserves perhaps, even a better attention! Even the ‘match-fixing’ (whether it is cricket, or a marriage alliance), works entirely on implied parts of ‘innocent looking’ pleasantries!

This ‘implying’ aspect plays a very significant role in interpersonal skills, and its evolvement. For instance, after years of keen observation, I had been suggesting to the superiors under whom I worked, to try to appreciate the person who is reasonably punctual, for a change, instead of lamenting at those who are punctually late for work! But the effect is very slow, and almost imperceptible, though very much a certainty, and may be therefore, that I really never got to see my suggestions imple-mented! Possibly, the bosses themselves were inadvertent victims of the phenomenon of ‘implication’!

All this calls for a discrete sense of discerning ability, and coupled with sharp alertness, and keen awareness of the witnessing aspect within the self, so as not to become entangled during the process of implication!

I found a question, seeking clarification about something that generally ‘implies’ a very laudable aspect! “I am proud to be an Indian” is the prescription. And here the question seeks clarification about the ‘latent’ violence in it! Both are valid, but only to a person who is able to comprehend the ‘implications’ which are not really ‘declared’ assets (personal assertions).

(I was even reminded of a joke by a famous journalist, a bit controversial one too, who brought out the funny aspect of the implication, when we try to overdo the repetition of calling somebody “Father of the nation”…. Then, what are other ordinary people?)

psn(16^th April, 2011)

The question:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110413195850AA2WtbO

Why jiddu krishnamurti said -When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European,?
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent

My reply:

It is just because of the 'implication' that we are so attached to, when we call ourselves as so-and-so.
It usually implies that we are a bit rigid about it. And rigidity offers resistance, which is violent. Definitely, J K did not imply any "active" violence. Please see the context. There is a potential violence that could turn active under severe provocation. It is the subtle vulnerability that is hinted at.
(We all enjoyed the movie "Independence Day"... maybe, that is because, we call ourselves 'earthlings'! And it was violence all over. Spirituality seeks to differentiate such 'qualified' violence/conditioned violence!)