Why “whys”?
If we subtract either our consciousness or our intelligence from our being, would there be any question about what kind of life would be left for us? The answer from you and me will be a straight 'no'.
This is because it is our consciousness, or our intelligence that is asking the 'whys?' If we take this a step further ahead, we will come to see that our level of 'whys?' again has a direct correlation with our level of intelligence or with our level of being.
A 10-year-old boy will generally never seriously seem to understand why the elders of his house need to take things like politics so seriously. An earthworm would never understand how a dog could smell that something dangerous was approaching the property of its owner and the younger you and I would never be likely to think deeply of the life questions we are now dealing with here.
Why?
It is because, as we grow older and become more mature, we will have generally gained higher levels of knowledge, accumulated more experience and wisdom, and achieved higher levels of intelligence. And in accordance with these new levels of knowledge, experience, and wisdom, so will there be new levels of ‘life’s questions’ that we begin to ask ourselves.
But still, why ‘whys’?
The fact is, without questions, there will be no answers. (That is, if they are 'true questions'.) Here, I would like to say that some of life’s questions are not the authentic ones. Unfortunately for us, sometimes the questions on the table happen to be like …
'How many colors are there in a rainbow?'
We know well that in nature, there is no such thing as a real rainbow. No such thing as 'color', or no such thing as 'how many?' Rays of light, passing through different mediums, will bend and you read them as a rainbow … and in different colors. Some people can see nine colors in a rainbow while most of us generally see seven or less in a rainbow. How many is many is subjective.
The rule must be, “If there is no absolute answer, then that will not be an authentic question, it will just be the beginning of another question. So, accordingly, with our level of intelligence or our level of being, the questions will be calling to us. And one day the answers to them will come to us. (Here, one thing worth noting is a saying in Sanskrit, “Understanding comes to those who are not in a hurry to understand”.
Continuing on with our questions and answers, we will gain higher and higher levels of intelligence and wisdom. Then again, the questions more questions will come, leading to higher levels of wisdom and understanding ... and so it goes on. This process seems like it is leading us to somewhere.
But to where?
My thesis is, we are little variables, in different steps along the way of an already solved “gigantic problem” and there is a solution already there at the end. It seems that we are meant to advance to the solution, step by step, and to answer the 'whys' in our respective steps. If we give the correct answer, then we will be closer to 'the solution'. Closer to 'there'. And if not, we will be stuck at the old level, facing the same 'whys' in one way or another, again and again.
'Whys' are not man-made. They must have been already there. They were already there when we each were born. That is why, in life, we all face identical questions, just sometimes in different ways, “death” being the question of them all and know that the same was true with ancient Greeks, Mesopotamians, Indians, Chinese and Mayans.
'Whys' are the exam questions that come, one after another, to all of us. Be glad because this exam is, in the end, to give each and every one of us our due credit.
That is “Why.... 'Whys'.
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