The Pendulum of Desire

The Human Bond Series : X

The German philosopher Hegel referred to time as being a function of desire. He advanced the argument that human activity is based on desire and in measuring the progress of human events we set into our practice a concept of time … which separates different activities into separate time periods  … and allows a better understanding of its individual nature.

 

Such a concept of time differs from that of Einstein's study of relativity … where all natures are viewed as one whole as if there was no passage of time from one to another. In Hegel … time is viewed entirely in relation to human activity … and it is possible to understand the individual experience of time very accurately to that of one person.

 

As the basis of the measure of time … desire in its numerous forms … warrants some attention. Desire functions in a way as to create opposites of its nature and to experience such opposites of its nature at separate times. Hence in the view of reincarnation theories … an Indic who lives a life founded on the relative social interaction with others creates the opposite desire of individual experience in isolation in his nature … this may be lived at another time, for instance, in the  European experience.

 

Hence in a study of social groups a person may come to a curious complement between the Indic and the European as two sides to a coin. In unusual circumstances … involving a life of intense pressures … it may be suddenly possible for the opposites to create a mesh of itself and introduce both the individuals living on opposite sides of the world … to an intimation about each other.

 

In applying that concept broadly across the circumference of the world's experience we come to find matching and complementary pairs in the personality of individuals. As a rule they are opposite in personality … however given the civil natures we have come to cultivate in the world … we sometimes find a certain balance in the personality of the individual that is quite representative of the world's outlook.

 

In any suggested view of the global experience … from the Indo-European experiences of the past to the possible homogeneous human of the future … we see in the experience an understanding to be established for uniting the opposites of our individual natures into one balanced perspective. This may well be the way of the future.

 

But until then … like the pendulum that swings from side to side … we may be obliged to maintain a curious sense of difference in the public and physical natures of our being. A tomato in England would still be ' takkalika ' in India.