Your obligations as a 13.77 billion year old being

We aren’t people hoping to live through till eighties or nineties. Even the new born among us is literally 13.7 billion year old already. If you consider yourself otherwise, it’s simply due to the lack of information you have collected about yourself. I am saying this not with a motive of glorifying human beings alone. Often we have been envious of a mountain that stands for millennia under a single name.  We take buildings and trees as our land mark to reach specific destination. Some of us might have breakfast in the East and dinner in the West of the globe. And we give a sigh of relief when we reach our own property even as we find it to be exactly in the midst of the landscape so deeply registered in our memory.

But believe it or not, even the high rise constructions around you started off only as hydrogen molecules many billion years ago – got consolidated into bigger atoms at the furnace of stars – got dispersed into deep space at the time of nebulae, the explosion – found its recent place as iron or aluminum or silica at various depths in planet earth – and perhaps finally waited for intelligent human beings who would engineer them into well-arranged marvels of houses.

The stones of Taj Mahal and woods of Meenakshi Temple have made their journey through different galaxies. As time rolled out through inconspicuous ages, when no government was alert enough to mount taxes, the value of materials fortunately didn’t score too high and we have managed to add some engineering value of late and have assembled them as our neighborhood. And that reminds me of how markets are roaring bullish and how they would leave out large chunks of populations as spineless worms rather than citizens who could still be counted with the rest.

So everything is evolving around you including market indices. The dynamics of growth is just eager to wipe out unfitting masses.

There’s a way to stop this madness -- to cool the hectic pace of inhuman reforms or one-sided development. The flicker of hope would strengthen when we also realize the potentials to which our own knowledge and consciousness can grow.

From the time we invented language to register all forms of reality in our memory, from the time we learnt to reason out with the help of concepts conveyed through words, we have indeed taken the pace of evolution to a new height altogether.

But there’s something yet to be achieved at the centrality of our mind.  Knowledge of who you are and how you were formed right from the moment of Big Bang is an essential requirement for this change. Gems of wisdom hidden in our religious traditions rightly invoke us to aim for something far greater than what we normally find to be the case in our immediate surroundings.  They invite us to aim for moral power, psychic strength, joy and freedom.  Not something to be achieved after succumbing to the merciless law of nature.  It’s rather by believing that there are lot more changes evolution is still awaiting to bring before us.

Your consciousness is destined to grow; to assume many more stages of growth before it begins to shine like the artifacts in front of you.

Our intelligence hardly stops at learning natural laws or by tweaking things with our hands and machines.  It doesn’t even stop when we impress the media with the magic of our words in order to gain public approval.

We basically need to remember how this mental power that emerged through evolution is something lot more potential than the other slowly evolving species and objects.  Just by believing we might one day change the nature of things around us. Objects are led by forces.  Cells evolve through reproduction. Mind evolves merely by learning more and more of what has been the case and what more marvels are likely to happen.

And the first step in the right direction is to acknowledge that neither your body nor your mind is of the small age that you have been told. Lot more value additions can happen to you merely by knowing your entire history.