To know is the biggest delusion in material life as in this mode one has invested in the petty self aspect of life which is exclusive to that self as if whatever one decides is or more precisely needs to become the norm. This is a movement away from the Socratic plea which stated that ‘all I know is that is that I know nothing.’ Here, the adherent is in a fixation where there is a partial clarity in operation with its vulgar modal forms which forces a certain way of being in exclusivity …. where there is no link to the self that one is but rather a temperamental one based on fragmentation.
Justification for that kind of belief is ample as the proponent develops a saliency of being in that no other matters. All that matters are a crude way where a boundary is set. The barrier at an impersonal level may best be seen in adopting crude nationalism or religious zeal or at the personal level an inbuilt element of me-ism where barriers are in abundance.
Material life exposes oneself in delusions of grandeur as if to the crude self belongs everything where the other is not only blotted out of one’s existence but is subject to one’s vile hatred and arrogance of being where all that matters is the little me in operation to the detriment of others about me.
The concern is not to be simply in the mode of negativities where one does not see above and beyond the petty ego or neophyte stage where one is stuck at a level of the mind which forces one to acts as per partiality of being.
In neophyte stage, one is stuck at a level of the conditioned mind where one is directed as per the whims of the latter. There is no movement or attempt to rise above and beyond the false ego, or the zeal of knowledge as per one’s petty self. Life is very much a question of at least acknowledging and to be sure not ignoring the other. The vile of course has its agenda of recreating life as per its whims which shuts out every other bar initially his ego self minus others whereas its crusade is clear as it is a movement towards imposing rather than exposing. It is plain impulsiveness where one reacts as per a partial way of being.
Only in seeing the whole may one move about laterally in but for one entangled in a level of a divisive mind this may be a daunting task since one claim to know! And with it comes a derogatory state of affairs where the vulgar is in operation, where hatred and violence becomes the norm where some other or certain others only are acknowledged… the rest are relegated or ignored to a conditioned mind which perceives only a certain way of being…. where what matters are its ways or impositions nay that impulsive self at work.
The question of divisions always dominates the arena as is viewed in a shade of being not akin to the dialectics. In such a mode there may hardly be a way forward as what merges are negativism where what matters are that truncated form of being to the detriment of the other as already hinted.
The arrogant self is marred in contradictions: it may not have any shelter as it seeks justifications. One may never quite justify arrogance, anger, hatred, envy and greed at a level of the mind which is reactive and caught up in the modes of a materialist culture. The arguments put forward by such a view is all too addictive and bear no resemblance to life as it is. It is a question of being simply ensnared in the diversity where the unifying aspect is abandoned. Part of the reason is that there is no real understanding beyond the merely material.
A conditioned form of knowledge is corrupted at the outset and is within a predefined set of boundaries where negatives are in abundance and where there may not be an escape to see and or just to perceive. Everything is marred in contradictions. The problem with partiality is that all is within a set norm and so knowledge is dependent on that which is seen.
Is there a way forward beyond the fragmentations and the conditioned? Is this possible to move out of the realm of the temporal and the material? Perhaps on towards a transcendence without any contradictions where one is not a victim of the envy, pride, anger and hatred? To be sure, one is slowly moving away from the known categories towards a realm which challenges of that into which one has always been immersed in since being awaken rudely onto the world.
Or let us say is there a way out of our dilemma of being… away from that known towards that which is not in fragmentation or partiality but a wholeness of the type Krishnamurti speaks or of the non-divisive perspective which Prabhupada also refers to when talking about transcendental knowledge. Whatever it is it is, definitely not of the forms which causes aspects of the three poisons to use a Buddhist terminology.
Or those negatives which subjugate and keeps one rooted in the material. It is a transcendental form which may only be appreciated if one readily moves away from that which is readily perceived by the senses perhaps it is that which makes us meditate of a form away from the temporal and the world of hatred and anger and on towards that realm where there is calm, peace and a sense of togetherness… of a oneness within any division which may be readily observed by sociologists to the kind of divisions which politics usually thrives on. Or the kind of exclusiveness which a few, some and many others thrive on based on a demagogue type of existence where some always thrive at the expense of others whilst what is being stated herewith is a way which initially questions a roguish way which is both ill-conceived and thrives on hatred.
The question of course remains are we able to rise above and beyond the known and the temporal to both see and live towards that rather than be cornered within the temporal?