A Good Form

Tales of Resemblances : VII

 

 

 

 

 

 

The expression sources itself from the Brits. In a general sense it refers to the shape and size of our perceptions as we bring ourselves to view the events in our environment. News of a policeman gunning down a felon in the act of a crime provides us with an assurance of social security. However suggestions that a policeman committed murder and tried to cover it up by removing evidence shatters the same.

 

History is written by the victorious. That expression makes our mouths go dry but we say ' its what it is,' with what can only be described as a partial acceptance. Is there more?

 

A self invention takes place at several different levels and then like the façade of a building, deposits itself on the face of encounter to represent itself as being at par with what is normal in our lives. It starts with projecting our senses outward as against being introverted. That takes in the environment through to us in what the early Greeks described as Logos, Ethos, Pathos and eventually the introversion, rhetoric.

 

How we classify each experience requires more tutorship. They say about the Mahabarata, the longest epic poem in the world then,  that if you understood the meaning in the first two lines, you got it already. As a matter of curiosity, those two lines are, ' The King loved to hunt. It was a passion with him.' So how does the Indic learn his epics? Does he rely on a great deal of self invention? The answer to that has to be ' yes,' but he is persuaded to borrow his inventions from the life around him.

 

In much the same way we borrow from our observations, experimentation, contrivances, rural and urban landscapes, habituation or as is often the case, one's own body. The poet Gibran referred to the fact that we never cry all of our tears nor laugh all of our laughter. It must therefore imply that we don't offer all our piety as well to anyone. The art of invention is obviously alive and well in the world.

 

Of these, the engagement of the body in such exercises is what we fear, regret and sometimes get ecstatic over. When we seek to heal ourselves, there's no doubt that that's the place we must go. But in doing that we mustn't forget to project the senses outwards. It promotes ethos and reduces the pathos that comes from such studies.

 

 

 

 

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[Sagar Waingankar]

Deep search as its revealed! Liked one. Curious to know more about those Greek terms! Thanks Sir for sharing your thoughts.