A Re-Organization of the Muladior

A turning in the mind

        

 

 

 

          

 

              Author's Note:

 

For someone to say, ' I've changed my mind about things,' is not something new. What is new is for someone to say ' I've experienced some fundamental changes in my mindset, on account of which I've changed my perception about things.'

 

Such a fundamental change may for instance refer to the emerging idea that the creative god is female, not male as cultivated in a host of faith practices. That the view is proposed as a significant cognition of the equality of the gender in their relations.

 

The impact of this may alter not only our experiences of faith but also our perceptions of intelligence. No doubt it would have an attendant effect on individual identities.

 

 

As a child's experience of the mind, the Muladior ( belonging to the beginner) introduced a strange new world to the mind of the early Indians in their quest for understanding of the world. The early bards placed the perceiver ( Krishna) as lying on an ocean of milk. This created the perception in the mind of the reader, of the childlike qualities, with which, one comes to perceive god.

 

This began a mindset among Indians that persists to this day. In turn, the Indians became persuaded to perceive themselves as children in the eyes of god. This has introduced some special difficulties in the growth of the society and the maturity of the individual experience.

 

In the quest for self-realization, Indian yogis undergo a ' born again ' experience, to rediscover the child in their experience and come to encounter the curious phenomenology of mind that the early seers experienced. In time , this experience of the perception indicated changes that were quite considerable in relation to that which was perceived before.

 

In the first instance, the perception consisted of Vishnu lying on the waters of creation as he contemplated the possibilities of creation. This is today viewed as the standard experience of the emanation of matter into life. An age later, on account of the living experiences gathered by man, he was viewed as lying on the coils of the serpent Ananta (time). This became representative of the growing evolutionary experiences in the world.

 

In the third instance, the perception of the Siva family came to be portrayed as the quintessential mindset, leading to the reasoning and logical application of thoughts as the mind of the householder.

 

From one period to another, the time taken is about 1,200 years.  This leads to the perception that any mindset so established as to faith has a prescribed utility as to time and may thereafter come to a new cultivation of itself.

 

From the point of experience of the Siva family in the 8^th century bce, the engagement of mindset by the average Indian today appeals for a new perception. As the search grows for an accurate depiction of the perception, several new experiences compete for a part of the portrayal.

 

Foremost among these, is the issue of gender equality, self identity and the maturity of the issues. In a peculiar difficulty associated with the experience, it is found that it is no longer possible to portray the Indian experience in a purely provincial and denominational sense.

 

In the depiction of the portrayal as a lady sitting in a rose garden, next to a column of light, the phenomenology comes to an acquiescence of the inquiries of the heart as to the issues today and the ways we find for resolving them.

 

As a depiction of ' Truth and the Lady,' the portrayal indicates a need for man to continue with our living experiences of the truth. It creates an avoidance of the man-god idea, but relates to man's understanding as the instrument of the light in our perceptions. In coming to encounter the female representation of the divine, we affirm the reproductive quality as the continuity of life's experience.

 

The fundamental change this brings to the mindset of man is obvious but whether it will retain a durable continuity of experience will be the true test. The impact on male identities is expected to be curious.

 

In the legend of Gilgamesh, in an early world experience of the phenomenon of rebirth, the king emerged from his experience with a perception of a ' Monster in the garden.' This would be small consolation to the man in the street today who figures that he has been upstaged by the female qualities. Perhaps that is why Gilgamesh experienced it as monstrous.

 

A good journalist prides on knowing the pulse of society. A bard may have to do something more, he'll have to live the experience and in doing so, come to affirm the nature of his self. Such is the will of the man today, in declaring that faith and reason will always experience a skirmish. It's what it is.