This is a simple idea. It is very much the core of the Hindu conception of reality and I fully experience it everyday. Of course each one of us perceives and agrees with this idea at different levels, these differences being a somewhat direct application of the idea itself!
Whether you call it consciousness, or God within everyone, or the Selfish Gene, or whatever, we can see pretty easily that almost nothing of the sentient world, and even the physical world for that matter, is fully predictable or modellable. That means everything has a choice of response or action in each situation. Whereas gross planetary and objective physical phenomena seem to follow the classical scientific laws like Newton's Laws etc., science also tells us a lot of accuracy of measurement actually depends on the observations, with a clear subjective element! So we move over from Newton to Einstein. And poor Einstein didn't complete his general theory of relativity in his time, so even the principle of relativity has some grey zone!
I call this the principle of autonomy. So we can say either we don't know how to measure a thing totally objectively or we can also say it seems to have a mind of its own.
Definitely life is full of surprises, and we read about it all the time. The dramatic incidents of people behaving in a most atypical manner are reported all the time, cases of behaviour either for personal gain or grief, or for public good or to cause public dismay; this is all a demonstration of this principle of autonomy. If viruses can decide to mutate to confuse us, why not people!?
I call this the principle of autonomy. So we can say either we don't know how to measure a thing totally objectively or we can also say it seems to have a mind of its own.
Definitely life is full of surprises, and we read about it all the time. The dramatic incidents of people behaving in a most atypical manner are reported all the time, cases of behaviour either for personal gain or grief, or for public good or to cause public dismay; this is all a demonstration of this principle of autonomy. If viruses can decide to mutate to confuse us, why not people!?
That was autonomy. Now the second principle. The self-limiting nature of everything. I find this makes a lot of sense more. In fact more and more as I see what is happening. That explains a Steve Jobs losing his job originally, then making Apple so strong, then not living to savour his success fully. And how Cook is trying very hard to follow that act, but as it turns out, without the same success. And how the iconic Bill Gates is about to be asked to step down or out.
Why do impossibly perfect things and limitless geniuses demonstrate sooner or later some chinks? Why does a Tendulkar finally decide to step down? The reason is that just as autonomy operates at the individual level, there is a universal connectedness that imposes automatically a governing mechanism for self-limiting everything. I use the word self as a proof that each being (or thing!) accepts autonomy as well as connectedness as two sides of the same coin, and hence operates to limit itself.
That means the worst tsunami ends soon. The worst tyrant loses a battle. The most powerful are humbled in some way we can't predict.
Do you see why it is childish to expect perfection in ANYTHING? If God pervades everything, and everything is autonomous and Self-limiting, EVEN GOD IS SO. Here I mean God that is manifest. If there is a perfect, Adi-antya-rahita Bhagavan or Devi, such an idea is for me a poetic conception or extrapolation, NOT SUPPORTED BY EXPERIENCE.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, God has chosen to be so. And here ends my autonomous outburst with a self-limit.
