Color capable versus color blind

I found an interesting article. I was unable to explain this so well. But, I did like to take the logic further.

For instance, when our name is called out in a noisy place like a railway platform, we hear it almost distinctly. But, if the same thing is pre-recorded and played back to us audibly, maybe, we may miss our name being called. Something interesting and noteworthy. (Maybe, the reconversion of 'waves' does not restore the fidelity entirely!).

Recently, an elderly lady during her last few hours of life, reported having 'talked' with her departed husband. It sounded as if, she might have imagined or hallucinated. But, if we look at this 'colour theory' a bit carefully, then, maybe, we can also presume a possibility that when the 'impact' of the sensory levels of perceptions are getting dull (the body fatigued, life energy draining out), the subtle capabilities get more prominently surfaced! The ancient spiritual masters would have looked at this great possibility and might have 'worked' towards bringing these capabilities 'at will' and during prime youth (meaning when sensory levels are good and at peak), and towards this end, have perfected a few tools (spiritual practices). The goal or purpose being, to have a perception that affords us to reach closer to our 'true' inner nature! Like any other field of 'capabilities' the temptations are there and perhaps greater. These extra-sensory capabilities are popularly known by the name 'siddhi/s' and the temptation to get recognition, get material power side-tracks the aspirant from main priority, goal, and entangles the person into life-death cycle inextricably, for a longer duration of time. The 'vision' that comes naturally in most cases, especially those meeting death at an advanced age, is not of much significance because the factor of 'at will' is absent, and mutation of 'karmic' accumulation does not happen much. Obviously such vision happens almost during a state of 'helplessness' (a passive spectator state, not even an alert 'witnessing aspect' state!).

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If this possibility seems plausible, and the mind is open to say 'let me see', a person can work his way further.

Psn

quote:

http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/op-ed/colour-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/345039.html

Colour is in the eye of the beholder

Look around us and we see colours everywhere. We frequently talk about a red shirt, a black board, a white moon, etc. But what is surprising is that these colours do not belong to the objects themselves. The different colours that we perceive are really only inside our eyes and heads. A red shirt is only a shirt that appears red to us. By itself, the shirt does not have any redness.

The light that we see, the signals through which we get to listen songs on the radio, the radiation that cooks food in the microwave oven, the waves which give us an x-ray picture are all the same kind of waves, called electro magnetic (EM) radiation. If they are all the same, one might ask, then why are they given different names?

If one ever dropped a pebble in a pond or a bucket of water one would have seen that concentric circles emanate from the centre and spread out. These are waves. The number of waves coming out per second is called the frequency of the wave. Some are less frequent and some are more so. Similarly, EM waves too travel at different frequencies. What you hear on the radio is due to EM waves that come in at a frequency of about a million waves per second. With a billion EM waves per second, one can cook food. With More waves than that, one can see one’s bones. The frequency is the only difference between all of these waves.

What we perceive as colours are also EM waves. They have a frequency range from 400 thousand billion waves per second (the red colour) to 789 thousand billion waves per second (the violet colour). So a red shirt is actually a shirt that emits EM waves of a specific frequency. This particular frequency has been labelled as red by our brains. It is as if our brain has a mnemonic for the different kinds of frequencies.

If we can see some frequencies of light, why can’t we see x-rays or radio waves? That is because we are all products of evolution by natural selection. Since the sun has its peak radiation around this frequency range, we evolved eyes that detect the same frequency range. This helped our ancestors identify food, predators, friends, mates, etc. Based on their needs other animals have evolved eyes to see differently. Honeybees, for example, can see ultraviolet rays but not red light.

Thus, no object has intrinsic colours. Colours are just names that our brains give to different frequencies. But this subjectivity of colours leads to an interesting problem. Can we ever be sure that what we see as green, is also seen as green by the next person? What if the other person sees the same frequency of light as red? And what if a third person sees it as blue? Is there anyway for us to find that out? It’s an interesting thought to hold on to.

Hurdle Race!

It was fun watching a hurdle race, till my turn came to participate into one! Now that fun part got diluted a little. I could get over the hurdles, but the time factor, and the competitor was the real hurdle, not that 'hurdle' itself!!! It was the high school ground, and the supervisors were our 'drill-masters' as we were taught to refer to them. The 'drill-sir' seemed in no 'way' concerned about the hurdles that these hurdles and the competitors created in my tiny head about the 'concept' itself! If those hurdles can be tall, why not have pits, to jump into, or to jump over? (At the village, I did have a tough time, keeping pace with my cousins, who played 'catch the thief' game, the main hurdle was the rule, which said that we stay only on the branches of the trees around, and chase each other.... placing feet on the ground was prohibited).

Later on in life, the hurdles came to stay! There was never a 'cake-walk' (whatever they meant by it!).

Now it seems, the hurdles are in varieties, at unlikely places, in unlikely shapes, etc. I have no time to ask funny questions like I did in my childhood mind, 'why not pits', etc .

People place hurdles on my path, being unable to tolerate their own! This Yoga business seems to 'reveal' the several hurdles that I had created for myself long..... ago (dunno, how long this long stretches into.... “karma” is a convenient word for it! ). 'They' offer a consolation too.... one can jump over the karmic-hurdles, by-pass it, remove it, dissolve it, etc.... But to become 'capable' of doing any of these, there are yet another entirely different set of hurdles, to get used to, to practice with!

Unlike in that school race, the number, size, timing of 'real' hurdles that one crosses is fuzzy, quite illogical, quite disproportionate, and allows no comparison! A fellow with comfort zones, concessions, pampering, etc crosses just 9 hurdles in his life (the tenth one, he simply shifted upon the next idiot!), and is declared a winner, while another unfortunate fellow spent his whole energy crossing 29 + 1 tougher ones, and 'kicked the bucket' half way (Yessss... now I know what that 'bucket hurdle is.....), and is declared a loser! That leaves us with no option/choice, except to seek consolation only from within, that we did our best all the while, all the way!

(How I wish, that school-hurdle-race had stretched into 'real' life.... oh no........ not 'reel' life... movies still seem good only with that hero facing unrealistic hurdles.... and emerging a winner only during the last 5 minutes of the life).