The subtle aspect of it, is what
attracts my attention when I try to find out the hidden blocks that
hinder the spiritual growth! The 'passive negation' is elusive to
that easy perception of it! For instance, the lack of appreciation
for something deprives us of the experience of some other thing else,
which in turn evokes joyousness in us, and we keep lamenting that joy
evades us! If we happen to remain indifferent to all forms of music,
for instance, how are we going to even know as to what we are
missing?
I would try to use a
practical/technical incident to demonstrate... Maybe 'techies' might
find an appeal due to this example! (This happened a few years
ago.... We were still new to use of computers for
international/inter-country transactions)
At my work place, it so happened that
the task of handling a cumbersome software fell upon my shoulders...
It was cumbersome because of several reasons... The people around
were too early at 'settling' down when compared to the computing
technology, that demanded some attention at least initially, to
re-settle into it, relocating ourselves from the earlier settlement
into manual hand-written form of accounting! This particular
software was cumbersome due to a unique reason! The designers had
sought to focus more onto the security aspect rather than the
user-friendliness of it, and hence they 'expected' the needed adherence to 'getting familiarized with its nuances on an on-going
basis'!!! So, this one software became a source of fascination for
me! The cost of even updating it was stupendous... And the people
who held the access to the source codes of the software depended more
on the process of revamping the very software, at least once in every
three months (irrespective of whether the functionality-utility
needed it or not!!), because, the security of the software was what
made it the most dependable and most sought-after one globally! The
bulk of inter-country financial transactions was done using this
software...
The drama part of it:
There was a data field which expected the figure in the form of a
currency as its unit... The routine data input was fed into it,
for that transaction, but the software refused to move further, to
the next menu... It did not even give any hint as to which of the
fields were filled incorrectly!... Several colleagues tried their
'common-sense'... the nearest they could approach to the problem
was,... that this transaction was with a Japanese institution, and
hence the currency was Yen. When they had decided not to try any more
with it, (and were about to request the clients to use US dollars,
instead), I requested for a few more minutes, and looked at what
they did not try to look at so far... They went through that amount
field, Yen, but did not bother to look at it... (We KNOW, the Yen
has only one unit and no fractional units as its currency forms, is
what they unanimously decided within themselves, even unaware of
their own unanimity about it!)... I looked at that field, and saw
that the name of the currency was correctly mentioned as 'JPY' and so
was the amount too... correctly mentioned. Then it struck me, how
is this stupid memory machine going to know that I have stopped with
the numerals, digits of inputs?... Perhaps it is still waiting to
know,.... that..... 'we' find it as 'enough is enough'!... I
requested permission for one more attempt at data input mode, and
they readily obliged me, reactivating the 'dead' file, to allow
correction/editing to the data... All I did was to place a dot, a
period at the end of the digits, the numerals of the amount field...
Now the software got what it wanted (the 'go-ahead' for its cursor,
the pointers to proceed to validating the next data field!).
Two significant things happened
thereafter:
The people around missed to take notice
of the fact that 'this donkey' (a non-expert, a non-technical fellow,
a non-entity amidst us), happened to bray in the right tune, the
right notes of music, to become harmonious with the receptivity of
that 'entity' (Yes! When we seek to give life to that activity,
enough for it to become a 'transaction' that would trigger a chain of
reactions that are going to signify transfer of rights of meaningful
activity of a few people, in the form of shift of merchandise across the continent, this transaction, even in its present form, as a
digital file, may be rightfully looked at an entity!).
The second thing that they failed to
appreciate is the concept of 'communicating' with inanimate designs
which are 'effectively' a clear communication to us from the
designers (as much as this planet, this universe, is a communication
from its creator to us, its dwellers, its users, its by
products!)....
The negation is in the nature of an
'omission' to take notice of something that does obligates us to do
so!
...
The heritage passed on to us by our
ancestors makes it obligatory on our part to accept it with a grasp
of its intricacies and then to hand it over to the next few
generations, making improvements too, if possible! (A typical
example, a simple tantric diagram, or image becomes a live design
when a small dot is placed at its centre! There was a whole movie to
illustrate this 'point' ... A malayalam movie 'Atharvam'!... Now,
due to mere lack of understanding, if the design is not going to be
adequately appreciated, are we not effectively negating to respond to
the communication of the ancients who had bequeathed a wonderful
functional design created with lots of efforts, innovation and
application of highest-level of human efforts!).
...
Coming to spiritual arena, 'negation'
and its ramifications have been dealt with at great depths, and the
tools, techniques and processes evolved to handle the unwinding of
such accumulated 'negations' bear testimony to the enormity of its
importance, and value, in spiritual terms!
Psn (21st March, 2013)
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