The Witness

Believe It or Find Out Yourself Series : VII

We don't have a custom of referring to a witness as a man of wit. Perhaps in some instances we ought to. The word comes into usage in very sterile and intense situations with regards to the integrity or virtue of persons. Certainly we have stored its meaning in a singularly introverted way.

George Orwell's ' Animal Farm ' suggests that if we allowed the term witness to be popularized as wit we may well be ruled by pigs and cows. And we certainly don't want to do that.

However in the interest of the public right to knowledge and opinions, a person should not deny the possibility of such a relation between the two words. It is an integral understanding of an individual as regards the truth of his nature.

Ho Tai, the marvelous and laughing mystic of the Oriental experience used to say, ' if truth be known your laughter would fill this room.' In translation that probably means a person who is constantly smiling and is most amused deep inside at every act and antic he comes across in life.

The early Indic realized the implications of such a condition in the human experience. Milk and the cup of kindness make for a strange bedfellow relation. To overcome this, they perceived a need to expand the conscious experience of the universe. In Indic studies therefore one encounters the expression that ' the universe is a one person experience expanded into many.' Science affirms the expansionary motion of the universe.

From a certain perspective, this refers to the fondness that we seem to have about life. So much do we like life that we expanded its possibilities to an infinite number of different plays … to be lived in by different forms and lives … and like horses with blinkers are only familiar with what they encounter but not yet the entire Rama. It enhances the play.

That would bring about a curious and perhaps comical nature to things … depending on a person's perspective. Quite a mix, sometimes of opposites that eventually add up to the knowledge of who we are. The exception to this may be the person who says ' I'm only responsible for myself and nobody else.' Play or misery or foolishness … we have come to call this thing … life … Believe it or find out yourself.

Reviews

[Muse]

Your writings always amuse and perplex me...the stuff I write compared to you...I must seem juvenile??
You force the reader to consider deep thought. Like the Mona Lisa...what is she smiling about...is it because she just witnessed something amusing? The definition of witness is loose and open for interpretation if you ask me. We sometimes witness ourselves through the actions of others...or is it the other way around...they are witnessing our reality. It's quite the conundrum if you ask me. Witnesses can be false...a witness can be honest.