People who are no longer stumped by the apparent issues of life
understand the shortcomings of the verbal contact with life. To them, there is a whole new universe that
opens up. The vast majority of human
beings, though, are unaware of this truth and they allow themselves to be
controlled by the verbal associations with the experiences in life. The following paragraph taken from the Tao of
Physics by Fritjof Capra says something in that direction:
“The Eastern mystics, too, are well aware of the
fact that all verbal descriptions of reality are inaccurate and
incomplete. The direct experience of
reality transcends the realms of thought and language, and, since all mysticism
is based on such a direct experience, everything said about it can only be
partly true. In physics, the approximate
nature of all statements is quantified and progress is made by improving the
approximations in many successive steps.
How then do the Eastern traditions deal with the problem of verbal
communication?”
Capra answers this question in a detailed way in his book. We can also chip in here. One answer can be based on the
region of intuition whose power is far greater than the merely logical mind
that relies on the verbal approach. The
pointer here is that those who understand the limitations of all belief systems
move on to the inner awareness where the non-verbal contact with life rules the
roost. That region is free of religious and other conditioning. People who wish to lead a vibrant life sooner
or later move into that zone.
