Evolution of knowledge

There is never a single moment that the world has slept. It has lived, breathed, perspired, toiled, sweated and grown. Inexorable and ineffable, we have watched it grow without some understanding at first and with a slight understanding later on. What we know seems to be a drop in the ocean and the mysteries we are yet to understand are endless. And it shall remain so for the future generations that shall live on this earth, for growth leads to evolution and evolution leads to convolution of current knowledge and that leads us onto further searches of knowledge. In a strange thought of paganism, we have probably been made in the splitting image of the Earth- Mentally and metaphysically and not physically though.

We change from birth until death and whatever change we have made is subject to further changes. We live or try to live, we breath and that is a given, we perspire and toil to feed us and others, grow in stature and strength and finally without understanding ourselves, and without realizing our dreams, we die. The energy within us does not die though and it is conserved around us and we pass on the energy to someone else and that is probably where the concept of 'rebirth' occurs. Since it is the same amount of energy that has pervaded the universe from time immemorial, there has to be the process of rebirth. We sure know or we do not believe that such a thing occurs in physical form. But the ideas and thoughts we perceive and provide stay for generations to come until they are abolished to obscurity for the future generations will always know better than us.

Knowledge grows from strength to strength, but ancient knowledge does not diminish in value. The knowledge gained over the past centuries will not mean a thing to the future unless we know why and how the knowledge was obtained. Till the end of our life, we try to learn this aspect and the irony is that at the end, we do not want to pass on all of it. The future is better off when it learns for itself. This is not about the change that occurs around us, but the constant that pervades the universe. For thousands of years billions of people have lived on this earth and we still do not understand every single personality that lives within our reach. Statistics could very well argue that if knowledge of people and knowledge of psyche were passed on from person to person, we would know everything to know about others and there might not have been war or peace; opinions or arguments; good or bad; perception or absolute.

Every which way we turn, we are faced by perceptions and opinions. It is up to us to learn what each one of them means and how each one of them impacts. Whether we shall contradict those opinions or argue or ill-treat others depends on us and the knowledge we gain while interacting with the rest. The knowledge is neither set in stone nor written on water. The knowledge is again a perception when we learn it. The only way to then make knowledge absolute is by constantly evolving it and ourselves, in which case knowledge is not absolute again. We shall go through these circles forever- of knowing and not knowing and of appeasing and letting down people. At the end, it does not matter at all, because the knowledge is good only when you learn it yourself.