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Intuition and Sixth Sense - mumbo jumbo no more
Says the Quran, 'life is as flimsy as a spider's web and with one breeze it is gone' and warns man not to be attached to what he thinks is his own such as wealth and sons. (Sura Ankabut). Both Quran and Bible refer to God's voice that proclaim 'When I decide construction or destruction I only got-to say 'Be' (Innama Amruhoo Izaa Araada Sheian Wayakoolalahu Kunfayakoon'). Referring to constant change and impermanence - or anithya the Buddha's philosophy, recommends detachment and an ego - less state. Taking creation, existence and destruction to be Nature's laws, ideally, he chose the wheel as symbolic of such change. The Bhagvat Gita extols the virtues of asceticism - again the pillar of detachment. The real test of tsunami lies with those that live to be aligned with a higher purpose. Offices, administration liberal market, the communication tool and warfare were not what God Parama Sathya or absolute truth had in mind for man which ill effect of competition and loss of absolute values we see so rampant. The current man made system with it's social constructs tends more to kindle man's below bestial state enticing him towards sinfulness - something contrary to what was really expected of him. Such an environment is incompatible with nature's offerings. When artificiality conflicts what is natural - nature strikes back unreservedly. The collective emanation of such negative rays invites nature's boomerang - the hour's need being the collective will towards absolute values as a safeguard for nature's wrath. Engineering a man-made system into the loss of absolute values has also propelled man towards a captive mind which collapse has also effaced his once strong intuitive power. A country's indigenous knowledge comprised this intuitive power and man bereft of scientific development and all externalities saw the sharpening of such. If the captive mind saw the erosion of such power, it's retention was the fortune of animals. Intuition believed to be illogical is 'ill placed' in rational, scientific thinking yet it is intuition that drove only the animals and birds away from their natural habitat scenting the tsunami. Not a single animal reportedly was found dead. How come then rational man with all his learning miss out on this marauding onslaught? Certainly man in the course of fitting into modern learning is fast losing his grip on the Sixth Sense. More fortunate are the animals whose such sense purity remains intact. Their minds are not bombed by externalities that blunt creativity enabling such unsullied state. Logical reasoning dims intuitive power making socially accepted knowledge itself highly questionable. The cat's ability to look for Kuppameniya and early man's penetration into the jungle for wild roots, leaves and flowers as antidote for sickness were not the result of modern science. What's described as premonition but dismissed and disowned by modernity as 'emotional' was not the outcome of book learning. Yet it was premonition itself that saved the animals leaving man to research and machines. |
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Never before did we see the Sri Lankan mood plummet so low - at its
lowest ebb as it were when tsunami decided to teach us the grim reality of
the universal chain of helplessness. For perfectionists and their like,
this is a chance for re-alignment in thinking and reflecting upon the
words of the Quran, Gospel and other holy literature - very often taken
lightly.
