Corollary of sensible arguments

 Minds have always been argumentative. Social norms can only restrict the articulation on the outside. Within ourselves, the only constraint is ‘an eligibility criteria to get admitted into a mental health home’ 😜

Some arguments get ‘seeded’ positively. And when the seed sprouts after a decade or so, the flower is exquisite 🙏

A whole science was evolved into, for ensuring that the corollaries of any ‘healthy' debate/argument, is not missed 🙏 Tarka_shastra was the name!

I was ‘just’ lucky to have witnessed the fading_phase of the science of arguments, when i was a kid, and my mom's elder sister was admitted into a group_debate ( a ‘male’ dominated exercise in 1955 to 1960, among sanskrit scholars in a tiny remote village). They broke the rule, when they saw an illiterate lady(my aunt) outperformed them, within the stipulated parameters of the science, and won an argument 🙏. The same lady admitted defeat with me 20 years later, when i happened to argue very respectfully with her in the interpretation of ancient spiritual concepts (in my mixed mother_tongue😜. I stand zero chance in sanskrit against her, to even talk).

A beautiful message sprouted recently after 1½ decades of some arguments between two youngsters, when they were just around 25.  Both were the academic ‘cream’ of our society, and hence equipped with the best available logical skills.

I quote just one sentence from their flowering of intellect 🙏

“I still remember the walk home when we were discussing religious conversions. I had a standard line at that time: "You can't convince me, I can't convince you."    You stopped me and said something like, it isn't about convincing the other person, it's about convincing yourself how strongly you actually feel about your own argument. That one line changed my perspective and permanently shaped how I view every argument I have”....(UnQuote)

Precious piece of Wisdom!( Emotional equipoise, as a living experience, is the immediate flowering of a corollary to this conceptual grasp, of the purpose of an argument or debate🙏..  automated corollary. Other corollaries need conscious efforts to operationalize the intellect with a quiet mind 🙏)

I now wish,
both of them were blessed, to reach at atleast ‘few’ of the several COROLLARIES that could have opened its doors for them🙏 ( Oh yes, its quite possible that they would have EVOLVED into a few corollaries already! Just that it is yet to spread out its fragrance)

Archimedes conceived a corollary ‘Law of floatation ‘ as a bonus😜, when he was looking for only “relative density” wala concept.

Newton missed the corollary that ‘a LIVING’ tree can defy gravity, when he discovered the gravity_law, from the apple that fell from the tree🤣

The ‘attention span’ of present day minds is reducing due to pace of life 🙏. One reason why, precious corollaries are missed 🙏

A corollary yours,
psn(18 july 2026)