Assessment Tools

“Devi, Tum hans rahee ho?... Maa bankar dekho,...” The heroine in Mother India tells the idol, which seems to smile 'mockingly' at her, when she is torn apart mentally, between a compromise of starving her kids to death, or to lose her chastity to a greedy financier....

The scene impressed me very much... I was a kid, and the hand-painted posters used to weave 'dreams about that movie' everytime I passed by that road-side-advertisement-poster.. When the movie itself turns far better than that dream-about-movie that I weave within, my mind tells me 'good movie' other wise, it is just a so-so.. etc..

We can assess something, only by using some kind of a 'tool', often resembling a yardstick or a measurement scale, however fuzzy it is...

When it comes to emotions, there is a slight problem! We ourselves become the tool..! Or, is it possible staying out of it, and then measuring?... dunno! Why do people say, 'you won't understand...' to certain actions about which we try to ask, why did-you-do?... Is it that they 'know' ....that I am not going to become-a-tool, adequately enough,.... to understand the emotional reason for it?

Babies... emotion is all that they have!... They simply turn receptive to what ever predominates the ambiance just-outside-of-them! Their inside, at least physiologically is 'least-corrupted' from that emotion-receptivity point of view (though biologically that baby might have inherited even an HIV virus from the mom!)... Now, that baby might not respond/manifest, if the health problem is a 'retardation'... but for sure, the emotions are all that the baby is having, and capable of receiving right now! (it laughs and cries too intensely.. even funny sounds makes the child 'burst-itself' through a laughter!)...

Spirituality... Even to get into it... what kinds of tools are they, that are going to 'allow' us to gain some-kind-of-entry into that 'pathless-path'? Unless the 'mind' says 'go-for-it'... no point in trying it even... like we try out to watch-and-enjoy... an emotion-filled movie or so! Reading a stuff with 'spiritual' related content... or 'reproducing' it from some 'popular source'.. .. is almost like trying out a costly dress at a shop's dressing room!

(I wonder... if that pseudo-theism... plays a trick on our own selves... when it fakes an assessment-tool, that seems to be an emotional appreciation/evaluation, when it uses the feigned-emotions, the way those movie-stars do, when they work in shifts between shifted-roles for different movies!)...

Are logical tools going to work, to 'assess' spirituality?

Are emotional tools going to be 'used' like we use a fishing rod, sitting on a river bank, avoiding to get ourselves wet?

If.... it is so.....at all... that emotions “do matter”, for spirituality/theism... what level of emotions? (for sure, we need not 'count' the negative emotions, and add to the confusion...).

Is it the 'assessment-tools' itself... of a person.. that gets assessed by that 'job-giver' in an employment interview?

(Even for some new technology.. like... when 'brains are churning out new concepts of 'cloud-computing'... some other lab-workers are creating 'testing-tools' and asking these very cloudy-people to 'assess' those tools! Now, that does speak about a certain kind of 'trust'... when big money is spent into conferences, where the cloud-makers, and its tool-makers meet regularly!.. I have only spiritual-practices, to think about, when I try to assess as an idler-now... and that tempts me to wonder... how these Masters happen to exchange “even assessment tools” through their own unique 'blue-tooth' technology! When it is Spiritual Masters, the same 'dialogue'... 'Do whatever it takes' ... takes cosmic proportions! Size matters!)..

Are we serious about even taking a look at the kind of 'assessment-tools' that we use, when our mind 'incessantly' churns out conclusions, confusions, in the name of statements/observations, which are actually/effectively, judgements? Dunno!

When it is about blogs... it is so safe to copy-paste! Own stuff, renders our own assessment-tools, vulnerable to its inadequacies getting 'exposed'... But then, how to manage comments/responses? Dunno!

psn (5th April, 2014)