“You are out of coverage area”

 

“You are out of coverage area”….this is a common statement one hears as far as mobile connectivity is concerned. It is of no use even if I am within your eyesight – your mobile should be able to detect my mobile and only then our conversations may begin and our mutual presence gets perceived by each other! This I have seen it and experienced it as a daily experience when residing in Vancouver where all I could see that each individual’s psychological space was brimming with individually defined data/ information/ tasks by being hooked to online or virtual environment. Whether the surrounding climate changes or a dog barks or whether you are sitting next to a person – it feels immaterial to the person who chooses to remain completely engrossed in an imaginary world informed by continuous interaction with AI. To a person who does not know anything about AI, or who is not online or not hooked so far with the virtual environment, to such a person it feels that the entire community is a faceless set of people who remain silent, who don’t respond to anything and who do not even acknowledge any changes happening in their vicinity. An offline person talking to a person hooked online, it can feel just the same as talking to some kind of a wall or a stone or a planter (although a planter is still “alive”!)….

This is a problem of the human mind and there is no limit to the extent to which one can allow oneself to be carried away with numerous distractions/ data/ information/ manifestations. To be engrossed in million things is not a sign of intelligence – rather it is a sign of a disease - of running away from fear or of not acknowledging the spontaneity of change/ force or the presence of consciousness. More multitasking with countless virtual things is a sign of desperation or anxiety or fear. I do not treat it any achievement of mankind to develop this kind of a mental attitude, although I am aware that these words probably do not mean anything to the online geek.

The philosophical angle to this is the retrograde march or निवृत्ती. What does this mean? It means to slow down and concentrate on one thing only. This concentration results in diminishing the distinction of subject and object, reveals variables that are self made by our existence and finally slows the internal motion of the mind to reveal consciousness. By doing this, our petty tendency of the ego gets dissolved and a larger awareness dawns in. Although this is said in just a few sentences, it may take an entire lifetime or even more to realize this state of being. The criticism towards AI are two – it fragments and presents disparate data and it does not let anyone synthesis anything at all. Synthesis, philosophically, means to align oneself to consciousness (or to become consciousness and to dissolve any known separation or manifestation or variable in the equation). Synthesis means to dissolve and be omnipresent and beyond the effects of space-time-causation. In other terms, this is what is God.

This nature is already present in all life forms. We conceive and imagine life forms having different names and forms (worm, earth, plant, ant, you, me, dog, river, cloud, sun) since that is what we are born into a state of mind (or force/ motion). This breads differentiation and fear. This is our default imagination as human beings and that is the basic reason why we see things differently and always compete and create noise. We think our body is the reality and that is the impulse behind all our imagination. We are NOT the body but the spirit. As more and more of this awareness kicks in, the hold of manifestation loosens up and we are not compelled to do anything at all (or our motives are not personal – but universal).

It is evident that the state of human mind and that of an enlightened person who has felt the consciousness medium within him/her are poles apart. We are presently not even in the range of vibrations of God and so “we are out of coverage” as far as His messages and guidance or voice is concerned! We are (or choose to remain) so engrossed in human vibrations that indicate differentiations, then how can we ever realize the Truth of consciousness?

I leave that question to you.