Thinking about our Thoughts.

As human beings we always think, but do we ever realize why is it that we have given such extraordinary significance to thought?

Is it because it is the only thing we have, even though it is activated through senses?

Is it because thought has been able to dominate nature, dominate its surroundings, has brought about some physical security?

Is it because it is the greatest instrument through which man operates, lives and benefits?

Is it because thought has made the gods, the saviors, the super- consciousness, forgetting the anxiety, the fear, the sorrow, the envy, the guilt?

Is it because it holds people together as a nation, as a group, as a sect?

Is it because it offers hope to a dark life?

Is it because it gives an opening to escape from the daily boring ways of our life?

Is it because not knowing what the future is, it offers the security of the past, its arrogance, its insistence on experience?

Is it because in knowledge there is stability, the avoidance of fear in the certainty of the known?

Is it because thought in itself has assumed an invulnerable position, taken a stand against the unknown?

Is it because love is unaccountable, not measurable, while thought is measured and resists the changeless movement of love?

We have never questioned the very nature of thought. We have accepted thought as inevitable, as our eyes and legs. We have never probed to the very depth of thought: and because we have never questioned it, it has assumed preeminence. It is the tyrant of our life and tyrants are rarely challenged.

John Singh