Duality

One of the most intriguing subjects that I ever studied as a student of science is Physics. Amongst other equally mystifying concepts, the one that has fascinated me the most is the principle of duality, postulated by the renowned German physicist, Max Planck. He made a rather weird albeit entrancing discovery - it is inherently possible for a physical entity (say, an electron) to have more than one existence in the space-time continuum. The idea seemed whimsical and preposterous at first blush, but Planck went on to substantiate his theory with scientific proofs which could no longer be dismissed as outlandish.

This is Physics, pure and sublime and in its most natural form. Let's momentarily extend the concept to our lives. All we need to do is extrapolate the definition of the 'physical entity' from a minuscule electron to something not quite minuscule as humans. From the principle of duality it stands to reason that I, you or anything in the whole wide world must innately have more than one existence in the space-time continuum. Thus, there is a Sankash that exists alongside this one in some other world (known or unknown to humankind). And he is as real, or unreal for that matter as the Sankash who owns this blog. That the two different Sankashes, who are apparently unknown to each other now, were borne out of a single Sankash is a school of thought that cannot be ruled out. It is just that each of them took a different turn at one of the many cross-roads they have come across in their life, and thereby chose not only different futures for themselves but also different destinies.

Skeptics will argue that I must be out of my mind (read insane) to write what I have written. In fact being insane is the most basic form of sanity that you can ever hope to manifest. To a clinically (note the word clinically) healthy person a mentally retarded person is insane, but from the retarded person's perspective he himself is as sane as any other - may be for him, on the contrary, the clinically healthy person is insane. So, who is sane and who is not? Figure out the answer yourself. The fact of the matter is we are so busy looking at everything through the periscope of reason, trying to be reasonable all the time that we end up being reasonably unreasonable most of the time, if not all the time. We always keep looking for that line that tells right from wrong, reality from illusion, permanent from transient, mortality from immortality completely ignorant of the fact that the line was never there in the first place. All that you see, hear, feel is as real or unreal, as right or wrong, as good or bad as you perceive them to be.

So, is the principle of duality reasonable or unreasonable? Only you know the answer.