Monday, May 5, 2014

459. What is the Vocabulary of the Thoughts?????

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Psychologists say on an average a person will have as many as 60,000 thoughts per day. Thoughts emerge out of our mind making it busy and often babbling constantly. Have you ever made an attempt to know the vocabulary of your thoughts that emerge out of your mind? If one thinks deeper was it not the thoughts which were the threshold to the vocabulary? If so, what was the vocabulary of the primeval thought?

Did a thought need a language or is it vice versa? To answer this question we have to realize that even a deaf and mute person can compose great music. So, the deficiency in the senses need not hamper the expressions of the mind. Vocabulary is the expression of the thought from the mind. Thought could be the father of the vocabulary, and we have had many vocabularies in the world.

I have always wanted to know in which language my mind is projecting the thoughts. Even though an individual is well versed in many vocabularies he does think in his native vocabulary. Thoughts that my mind project are by and large about things I know. I rarely think of that which what I don’t know. Now how do I know? What are the providers which supply the ingredients for my mind to project a thought? Often it is my senses that offer all the required components for my mind to create a thought. Since my senses are protruded towards the outer world they grasp or realize what is present outside me to my mind.

There is no need of vocabulary for my senses to convey that which they perceive to my mind. The intimacy between the senses and mind is like that of husband and wife who love each other considering themselves as two bodies and one soul, here Bhavana (feelings) supersede Bhasha (language). And in the same way there is no need of vocabulary for the mind to express thoughts. 

Suppose I am walking along a street and I happen to pass by a chat shop and my nose grasp the smell of Gol Gappa automatically I salivate, in which language did my nose convey the smell to my brain and in which words did my brain tell the saliva glands to secrete excess saliva in my mouth? As soon as my nose got the smell my brain quickly processed the information and directed the salivary glands. Now what does processing mean? Processing is just the communication between the neurons in my brain and conveyed to the entire body through axons. This communication is by the means of electro-chemical signal pulse. The processing speed depends on the quantity of the information that my senses provide to my brain. All this is happening without a script or vocabulary. Although to express the same to others, I need the help of words which are based on the expressions of my thought.

All that I blog is just the experience of mind that can be expressed in few words if I try to do so, but how can I express that which is felt beyond mind, I fail to express them in any language. That is because it is just “Bhava Tanmayattva” (feel of ecstasy). In that bhava tanmayattva stage the mind loses its relevance as well as its existence.  Bhava Virakthi (Detachment) and Bhakti (Devotion) are such experiences which cannot be expressed in any language but has to be felt by every individual all by themselves.

1 comment:

  1. Great post Sreeram! I think it is important to try to express what is felt beyond the mind because we may provoke a spark of understanding or a moment of revelation in another. I think this is the role of art and everything creative.

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