Age of Indian Ideas – Now
SANDHI, A WINDOW OF TRANSITION
Indian concept of Time tracking connects any two disparate entities using a beautiful concept called Sandhi.
Sandhi is the joining of two places, two periods or two activities.
In the context of Time and Evolution, Sandhis are those time windows, when this world sits on the cusp of a transitional phase, from one epoch to another – not just in spatial location in the Cosmos or in material technologies used by mankind, but more importantly in the Mindset of the human race.
AT A CUSP, SANDHI
We are in a period of such a Sandhi, which in a way, can be said to have started when the West was initiated by India, about 100 ago, into awareness of the mind and ways to harness it. Its logical conclusion will be reached only when the glass ceilings that prevent harnessing the mind power are broken by mankind. Having ignited the minds, India had better take the world to this logical state.
A few in the realm of cutting edge Science today, have started to become aware of this ceiling.
TOMORROW-WHAT WILL IT BE?
Across all eras, it has always been a continuous race in this world to capture the largest market, for the longest time.
Even today, while the governments of every nation is busy fighting its problems of today, its think tanks are busy strategizing to preparing itself for tomorrow. The question is the uncertainty over what the morrow will be like and whether one has what is needed to ride it.
Other Oriental nations such as China, Korea, Japan and to some extent Russia too, are quietly developing their strengths, both inside their land as well as across the world, in anticipation of the era when the power balance will shift to the East. Each is focussing on their traditional strengths.
*China is quietly spreading Confucianism as it keeps pushing its idea of One Belt One Road (OBOR).
*Russia is trying to establish antiquity and hence greater power and claiming a Russian Veda is one way.
*South Korea is trying to woo the world with sheer technology
*Japan is silently marching ahead with Zen and Kaizen, even as it continues to beautifully balance old and new with Shintoism, Buddhism and Zen.
The goal seems to be, making these ideas, which are on the fringes of the modern world today, a mainstream idea in decades to come. The forthcoming eras will take on the nature of the winner of the silently pitched battle between the East and the West for centre of power.
AN OPEN BOOK WITH AN OPEN MIND
Anything closed can be broken down. It is that, which is open, will survive. For, there is no wall to break. It can assimilate everything well as well, as it can disseminate too.
Abrahamic thought of the West, which was closed to the idea of Mind and Science, lost in the battle with modern Science.
Modern Science which is closed to the idea of Mind, will stand to lose if it does not open up to acknowledging the Mind and the subtle world.
Subtle does not necessarily mean smaller and smaller in size, subatomic sizes etc. Subtle has to be approached as that which does not have a size to be measured. It can only be perceived and experienced.
Indian thought, Oriental thought, Brhmic thought, has always been an open school – no walls, no boundaries. Just an open mind that can expand to accommodate ideas from all around and which in turn has shared what it has, with everyone around.
आ नौ भद्राः क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वतो
Aano bhadra krtavo vantu vishvatoh (Rg Veda 1.1.89:1)
“Let noble thoughts come to us from everywhere.”
In the forthcoming Mind Era, India can lead the world with its mind to modern science as well as its millennia old open books and practices of knowledge of the Mind.
But mind you,India has to do it with an open eye this time around!
LINGARAJ PANDA
