One of the most valuable things I have learnt from my Isha classes is that logic is not all-pervasive: it is only a minor subset of the whole. The alphabet set of logic cannot explain life and world. It does cater to your materialistic livelihood. Period.
More often than not, we tend to disregard many occurrences as "illogical", thanks to our deficient logic.
I was having a good refreshing discussion with Bhoobi yesterday night, in our terrace. We were discussing about life in general intercepted with a few gleanings from our yoga classes. He gave a beautiful anecdote to explain the handicap of logic.
You eat one laddoo. It tastes amazing. You feel happy. Logic tells you that if you have 10 laddoos, you'll be still more happier... Sadly that is not the case, isn't it? Our experience says otherwise.
Well, all I can say at this point in time is that Isha is imparting amazing LIFE knowledge. Though confounded by logic many a times I guess I am realising a fraction of the drop of the ocean: logic is useless in the para-materialistic world.
p.s: If there's a way by which I can control all your lives for 10 days, I'll make you all attend the Isha course.
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Well, I do not stand to contest whether or not Logic is all pervasive, but I seriously feel that the example that you have taken up comes nowhere close to defending the view that logic is deficient/impotent.
Any application of logic relies on a set of premises. Falsehood of one or more of these premises does not necessarily render Logic faulty/deficient. In the example that you have taken, it is more of a failure of your premise that "any taste related response/ feeling to a stimulus is directly proportional to the quantity of the stimulant consumed", than the failure of logic itself.
To offer an opinion, I can't help but get this feeling reinforced. Any attempts to belittle logic are made by people who want to shy away from the "Why?", and I have a reason to believe that this is what most self proclaimed mystics, around the world, do. They are more often than not, being as mean as a teacher who tries making her inquisitive students feel that they are not allowed to question because they cannot understand what she might give as the answer.
Forget the example...that was just a rhetoric.
Let us say the logic world has premises p1,p2...pn. You can answer all questions, the answers for which are logically deducible using one or more of p1 thru pn. If u can't derive a conclusion, then it is "u dunno why". More often than not, we associate this "i dunno why" to "It can't be possible...Doesn't seem logical". Precisely, this is what I am speaking about.
BTW, FYI in Isha, they never ask you to believe anything...they only ask u to experiment and see the results for yourself which is NOT a mean teacher by the way. I don't know abt other mystics.
well, i do agree that Isha yoga has helped you to experiment with yourself.. but i really doubt whether experimenting anything can be done sans logic.. Logic tho doesn't always take you to the right direction it would really help you to bifurcate the correct from wrong..don't ask me how do i say something is correct and something is wrong ;)
Hey Rama,
It's too early for me.Maybe i join you next generation.It's better for you if you stop all this incorrigible echos of your perveted Mind.
Poi A R Rahman paatu kelu......MAYILIRAGAE MAYILRAGAE..
Srinivasan E
I concur with Prasanna S. Your example falls terribly short of proving what you are trying to prove, but it does prove one thing...
'logic is just as dumb as the one who applies it'
/stranger in trance/
great going yar.. good post...
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