Everyone
lives in this world. Every person who is born in this earth plays a
real role. The role includes striving hard to acquire wealth, health and
happiness in one way or other. When a persons is perceived by others
through their senses it is considered real. For example, no body felt
that tsunamis are real with such devastating power during the 80's and
90's. It is considered real only after the perception through our
senses. Similarly our life is also considered real until it is
perceived by others or remembered by others.
Consider this example where the native Australian's were unable to locate the big ship of Capt.Cook while identified the small ones;
The story actually traces back to Captain Cook and his landing in Australia in April 1770. In other first encounters, the locals sailed or paddled out to meet Cook’s ship. At Sandwich Sound in Alaska, they came in canoes, showing open hands as a sign of friendship. Off New Zealand, canoes full of Maoris were more aggressive: “They brandish their spears, hack the air with their patoo patoos and shake their darts as if they meant every moment to begin the attack.” But when Cook arrived off Australia, his ship drew no reaction. According to the historian Robert Hughes: “It was the largest artifact ever seen on the East Coast of Australia, an object so huge, complex and unfamiliar as to defy the natives’ understanding.” This is clearly the origin of the tale of invisible ships. It was only when the Europeans landed in canoes that the natives took action: “The sight of men in small boats was comprehensible to them: it meant invasion.”
the above example clearly illustrates that the majesty of the Captain Cooks big ship is not considered as real by the native Australians while the small boats are real because their degree of perception stops there. so our life is not limited to our own perception it is also depends upon the perception of others.
Consider this example where the native Australian's were unable to locate the big ship of Capt.Cook while identified the small ones;
The story actually traces back to Captain Cook and his landing in Australia in April 1770. In other first encounters, the locals sailed or paddled out to meet Cook’s ship. At Sandwich Sound in Alaska, they came in canoes, showing open hands as a sign of friendship. Off New Zealand, canoes full of Maoris were more aggressive: “They brandish their spears, hack the air with their patoo patoos and shake their darts as if they meant every moment to begin the attack.” But when Cook arrived off Australia, his ship drew no reaction. According to the historian Robert Hughes: “It was the largest artifact ever seen on the East Coast of Australia, an object so huge, complex and unfamiliar as to defy the natives’ understanding.” This is clearly the origin of the tale of invisible ships. It was only when the Europeans landed in canoes that the natives took action: “The sight of men in small boats was comprehensible to them: it meant invasion.”
the above example clearly illustrates that the majesty of the Captain Cooks big ship is not considered as real by the native Australians while the small boats are real because their degree of perception stops there. so our life is not limited to our own perception it is also depends upon the perception of others.
If a person is made list the number of people he knows during the last
century that person accounts about 100 or more suppose make it to 2
century back the number declines and so it reduces. Consider the case of
person who lived 1000 years back then a person can recollect them only
through their works and contribution to the society and that too in the
language known to him. Consider this example, a tribesman in amazon
jungle does not knew about Abraham Lincoln or Jesus Christ or Buddha or
etc., he considers that life exists only among his tribe and with one
or more known tribe living around the place. He often knew who is the
head of his tribe about 100 years back?.unless they possess the
requisite data in writing
Now comes the next question; is our life is remembered until our works
are documented?. In general yes, a scientific person will consider that
Thiruvalluvar lived 2000 years ago in Asia (a great poet who wrote
Thirukural in his native language Tamil, the greatness of his writing is
it applies to every other person in this world irrespective of his
colour, religion or race) while the life of the great Hercules (Greek
hero) is not true.
At this point, It is the ultimate question to ask our self "is our life real?",
One
person life is considered real until/unless that person life is
remembered by others. Every person does a role so in this world so that
he/she is remembered to the maximum extent. Even though the role played
by every others is different like acting, playing, inventing etc., the
basic nature behind them is to make their life to be remembered up to the
maximum extent.
In general a person in earth is remembered in 5 ways
- during the course of his life
- during the course of his/her relatives/friends life
- until his/her contribution is remembered through his/her works
- until his/her language is prevailed and till his/her contribution is useful/destructive.
- until earth revolves
In this world up to our knowledge we can say that only few things are
real like universe, Sun, Moon, Stars, Earth, Water and Air, and we can
also add God to that. God is real because we were unable to reason
certain things beyond our capability and efforts and as a basic nature
of human beings we leave those things which we cannot equate, or
formulate as God, which cannot be disproved.
When considering all these things now are we living a real life or it
is just a smoke which goes away during the course of time.
