Have you ever thought that why is the world the way it is, why can't we just control objects around us by just our will, or why can't we move a wand and get our things done on their own?
The answer can't be an absolute "NO". Because we all have thought about all this, atleast in the childhood, when our mothers or grandmothers told us the mystical and unbelievable stories of the fairies, talking animals, heavenly Gods etc.
We all have seen Harry Potter, Spider Man, Narnia and different magical movies of our times.
But as the innocence and the gullibility of the childhood passes by, we tend to realize that none of it is true.
Thus we are taught by others and from our own experience that whatever we can see, hear, touch, taste and smell is the only reality.
In other words, we are constantly forced by the surroundings to think that, what our five senses can sense is the only reality around us.
But the truth can be a bit different.
Let's take a person named "Chiku".
Chiku is congenitally (from birth) blind and has not talked about vision with anyone in his whole life and is 20 years old, thus not a child. He is left with just four senses- Audition(hearing), Taste, Touch and Smell.
Now if you try to teach Chiku about light and its nature, the beautiful colours of the rainbow, your reflection in the mirror, he will probably laugh at you and say that he doesn't believe in magic, mystical creatures and childish imaginations. Because for him, a real object is something his four senses can sense and everything else is mystical, divine, magical, whatever you call it.
He just cannot feel the sense of vision and has never felt it.
Now if, with the help of some medical treatment or some eye transplant or whatever, we can make him to see, it will be a marvellous, enlightening, or maybe a divine experience for him.
He may think of being in a dream and may require some time to get used to watching things.
Now think of all of us as Chiku, we have all the five senses, but we may still miss something that we can't even imagine, maybe some organ that can be used for telepathy(talking to other people without conversing, just talking through our minds).
So, there can be many different feelings we just can't sense, so we are left with the idea that things we sense are the only reality but in fact, reality can be much more unreal.
The answer can't be an absolute "NO". Because we all have thought about all this, atleast in the childhood, when our mothers or grandmothers told us the mystical and unbelievable stories of the fairies, talking animals, heavenly Gods etc.
We all have seen Harry Potter, Spider Man, Narnia and different magical movies of our times.
But as the innocence and the gullibility of the childhood passes by, we tend to realize that none of it is true.
Thus we are taught by others and from our own experience that whatever we can see, hear, touch, taste and smell is the only reality.
In other words, we are constantly forced by the surroundings to think that, what our five senses can sense is the only reality around us.
But the truth can be a bit different.
Let's take a person named "Chiku".
Chiku is congenitally (from birth) blind and has not talked about vision with anyone in his whole life and is 20 years old, thus not a child. He is left with just four senses- Audition(hearing), Taste, Touch and Smell.
Now if you try to teach Chiku about light and its nature, the beautiful colours of the rainbow, your reflection in the mirror, he will probably laugh at you and say that he doesn't believe in magic, mystical creatures and childish imaginations. Because for him, a real object is something his four senses can sense and everything else is mystical, divine, magical, whatever you call it.
He just cannot feel the sense of vision and has never felt it.
Now if, with the help of some medical treatment or some eye transplant or whatever, we can make him to see, it will be a marvellous, enlightening, or maybe a divine experience for him.
He may think of being in a dream and may require some time to get used to watching things.
Now think of all of us as Chiku, we have all the five senses, but we may still miss something that we can't even imagine, maybe some organ that can be used for telepathy(talking to other people without conversing, just talking through our minds).
So, there can be many different feelings we just can't sense, so we are left with the idea that things we sense are the only reality but in fact, reality can be much more unreal.
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