PERCEPTION AND RELATIVITY- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

PERCEPTION AND RELATIVITY-    CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Let me talk about PERCEPTION first.

Three friends go to a bar for drinking beer ( costing 10 dollars a bottle )

As usual they take out one 10 dollar bill each from their wallets and gives the waiter,  3 nos 10 dollar  notes or 30 dollars.

The bar owner is in a expansive mood and he tells the waiter -- "happy hour time! -- give them 5 dollars back!!-- i will charge only 25 dollars for 3 beers today ".

The clever waiter knows 5 dollars cannot be split between 3 regular dutchmen. so he pockets 2 dollars and returns 3 one dollar notes .

The three of them put back one dollar each into their respective wallets.  Initially each wallet had one 10 dollar bill--now it has only one single dollar bill.

Now comes the perception part:

All three of them spent 9 dollars each-- 27 dollars total.

The waiter got 2 dollars.

WHERE IS ONE DOLLAR GONE-- POOF???

Be honest to yourself and dont read further, till you figure this out.

You tell an accountant without perception to give you a debit/ credit accounts statement--and see the way he sweats.

See literacy has nothing to do with perception.  A illiterate chaiwala boy in mumbai can make an ass out of you, when it comes to accounts.

Daft accountants make a mistake when it comes to "receipts" and " balance ".

Here in this case it is - 30+0= 27+3.

Opening cash + receipts = spent cash+ balance cash.  It can never ever be 30-3+2=29

See, you cant argue with dorks.   2 dollars is something which happened in the mann mandir of the waiter.  How do you know that he stole 2 dollars ?   Accounting has to be objective.

Now let me talk about another case -- It is about RELATIVITY

There was this blind man, who used to constantly bitch about his bad luck-- again and again to whoever bothered to listen to him.

Fed up of this broken record, one day a wise man suggested to him, listen I have an idea -- let us put you misfortune in a basket, and so will everybody else .  Then we will shake up these misfortunes and you can pick up another man's misfortune.  You cannot lose as you will gain your eye sight, which you so sorely miss.

Before the wise man completed , the blind man told him to FO.


He was happy with his own misfortune.  At least he could get a massive hard on and with that he could enjoy with his girl friend, or all by himself if she was at work, or busy.  His girl friend was his fan, as he could sing well and and she loved his sense of humor and his performance in bed.  And his friends had given him bull  that she was attractive, while in reality she looked YUCCKK.

Suddenly he saw the light,  as soon as he related his misfortune with another man's.  He never bitched after that.

So sometimes a leper could be the happier , that a guy in a wheel chair with a broken spine.

It is necessary to compare things in life.  There are no absolutes like happy, sad, big, small, beautiful, ugly , strong , weak, rich, poor etc.

So sometimes when you feel you are happy,  it is just your comparison, to what you felt before.

There has to be a base for every thing.   Relativity is the only thing which allows anything to exist. this extends from atoms to living beings to the cosmos.  There has to be a reference point.  People who do NOT understand this truth usually paint themselves into a corner.

You cant think in black and white. Everything cannot be termed in groups of right and wrong. There are shades of grey.  Like President Bush said, either you are with me or against me.  Hey, how about "who the fu#k are you" , or h"ow about a kick on your ass" ?

When dealing with the law you must pinch and remind yourself, that absolutes could rule the day. "Do you plead guity or non-guily", asked the judge.  You will piss him off if you say " I am only a little guilty!" Like the 12 year old girl telling her mother " Ma, looks like I am a little pregnant!"

Unlike Hinduism, most modern religions like Christianity , Islam etc are absolute.  Members of these religions  see their own religion as the one that is right and will regard all others as wrong. Religious intolerance is due to this perception.

According to the New Testament, the way it reads today’s abridged Bible , Jesus Christ said that nobody will be saved except through him.  If the "Hour of Judgment" were to take place today, do you truly believe that all non-Christians would be doomed to hell forever?" A priest will answer this with a huge YES.

Literal and narrow interpretation of holy books as is done on evangelist TV channels or in a place of worship, can be dangerous. Many spiritual statements need to be analyzed and interpreted broadly.

This is the reason why this planet had to suffer Inquisitions and crucifications.  Many of the Popes of Vatican were involved in simony, nepotism, torture, murder, sexual promiscuity, or other sins unbefitting anyone claim to spread the word of God.

Mahatma Gandhi, had said "A votary of truth [a person fervently devoted to truth] is often obliged to grope in the dark." 


Our challenge therefore lies in our blind spots, not in our vision.  Unlike correcting a blind spot in the rear view of an automobile, which can be rectified simply by adding a different kind or a supplemental mirror, at another angle, we cannot correct our personal blind spots so easily.



To correct them, we must grow in our perception and in our acceptance of what is. "Perceive" means to "seize wholly," to "see all the way through." Perception, therefore, is the act of seeing in the mind, of understanding.

Our perceptions grow and change as we mature, but not everyone's perceptions mature at the same rate, which accounts for the widely differing degrees of consciousness with respect to cause-and-effect relationships, as we see different truths.

So let me quote John Godfrey Saxe's ( 1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend--the six blind men of Hindoostan-

It was six men of Indostan

To learning much inclined,

 Who went to see the Elephant

(Though all of them were blind),

That each by observation

Might satisfy his mind.

The First approach'd the Elephant,

And happening to fall

Against his broad and sturdy side,

At once began to bawl:

"God bless me! but the Elephant

Is very like a wall!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk,

Cried, -"Ho! what have we here

So very round and smooth and sharp?

To me 'tis mighty clear

This wonder of an Elephant

Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal,

And happening to take

The squirming trunk within his hands,

Thus boldly up and spake:

"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant

Is very like a snake!"

The Fourth reached out his eager hand,

And felt about the knee.

"What most this wondrous beast is like

Is mighty plain," quoth he,

"'Tis clear enough the Elephant

Is very like a tree!"

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,

Said: "E'en the blindest man

Can tell what this resembles most;

Deny the fact who can,

This marvel of an Elephant

Is very like a fan!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun

About the beast to grope,

Then, seizing on the swinging tail

That fell within his scope,

"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant

Is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan

Disputed loud and long,

Each in his own opinion

Exceeding stiff and strong,

Though each was partly in the right,

And all were in the wrong! 

MORAL.

So oft in theologic wars,

The disputants, I ween,

Rail on in utter ignorance

Of what each other mean,

And prate about an Elephant

Not one of them has seen!

Well these were blind men. Let us talk about people who are NOT blind.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.  People see what they want to see and what people want to see , never has anything to do with the truth.

Perception determines how a person responds to the world.  This means there is no reality- only perception. This is why people all over the world get fooled by clever advertisements and branding. However, the more you already know about a topic, the harder it is for anyone to mislead or misinform you.

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

Perception is not always to be trusted, as our perceptions are colored by our beliefs, expectations and experiences. Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is you-specific. You get upset with people as they do NOT conform to your personal rules for the situation.

Perception determines reality but at the same time your "perception" of reality does not mean that it is indeed reality... it is just your reality.

Our memories are not the equivalent of video recordings of events. Instead, memories are our interpretative summaries of the information gathered by your senses.

Perception is the process of translating the outside world to an inside representation into the perceiver.  What we perceive as being true is often conditionally true rather than empirically true.

Your beliefs, values and references are what make your reality.  You may see a situation as being bad while a  person who is more optimistic sees it as an opportunity for growth.  One man’s meat is another man’s poison.  One man’s  success is another man’s failure.

Business is all about perceptions.  The essence of leading, managing, marketing and selling is coming to grips with people's perceptions. There is only one perceived reality, the way each of us chooses to perceive a communication, the value of a service, the value of a particular product feature, the quality of a product.

Most of your judgments result from decisional shortcuts and thumb rules you use to generate solutions that are good enough most of the time.   When you perceive a situation that looks familiar to you, doesn't your past experience cause you to see the event in terms of what you expect?  Doesn't your limited span of attention lead you to categorize things by aspects that appear similar to what you already know?

"We are constantly bombarded with so much sensory information that it is impossible for us to pay attention to everything.  Our subconscious mind scans our environment and selects what it deems may be important for us to notice.  Even then, people not only see things the way they are, they also tend to see what they expect to see, as well as what they want to see.  Much of human perception is based not based on information flowing into the brain from the outside world ,the brain, based on previous experience, expects to happen next.

Perception is the process of feeling and understanding the environment by ways of sensory data processing. These sensory data are the results of interactions between sensors and outer stimuli.

Our brains and sense organs are wired in specific ways to aid in the purpose of survival. This machine is built with specific perceptual functionality that intentionally orders thought in ways that allow for prime survival strategies. It doesn’t follow the physical rules or laws of the universe. It runs with a specific purpose.



Our human machine not only perceives the world, it intentionally creates and re-creates the world around it. It drives and shapes reality even though this would seem to contradict its purpose and function. This machine functions through the exploitation of an active paradox. It sees what is out there and it creates what it sees.



Truth is absolute. Perceptions of truth are relative. Therefore, facts, which are perceptions of truth, are relative.  Paradoxes is something in which the same information may lead to two contradictory conclusions--give us pleasure and torment at the same time .

Truth is singular and perceptions plural. The universe functions perfectly . Our perception of how the universe functions is imperfect.

Gandhi had reached this conclusion when he said:  "My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements, but to be consistent with the truth.  The accepted definitions of truth are only modifications of the definitions of perception.  Truth as a human understanding resides in everyone's heart, and it is there one must search for it. Although we must each be guided by truth as we see it, no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his or her own view of truth. In the end, our "detector of truth" is our inner voice ".

Truth is perfect understanding of that which is.  It is neither the spoken word nor the written word, although these may have a ring of truth to them. Truth cannot be defined; it can only be experienced and lived.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.  Perception in the broadest sense is a matter of interaction between the world and the self.

All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.  Attitude can effect perception of the real world and the real world can effect attitude.

Perception is hence more like a reflection of reality than reality itself.  It is an interpretation of reality that is erroneous to some degree and cannot be perfectly correct.

You can’t touch or feel or see perceived value, yet it affects our actions more than we’d like to admit.   Knowledge has everything to do with the social acceptability of perception and nothing to do with Truth.  Did someone say God Particle ?

Truth can exist only , only in the present, in this instant, in the here and now. The past and the future are both illusions, and like all illusions, they are devoid of Truth.  Distinguish truth and reality. Truth is is real.   Reality is not known, it is realised,experienced.

We're prone to accepting and using all "shades" of truth. Truth is absolute and simply is, so there is only Truth and untruth. Truth never needs defense, although it may require explanation.  And where Truth abides, no judgment of human value is possible.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.  There is little difference in people, but that difference makes a big difference.   The little difference is attitude. 

Any idea or thought that you accept as true will be accepted as a command by your subconscious mind.

Brain is not capable of distinguishing between reality and memory—the same neurons are sparked when we see something as when we merely remember it. Brain cannot distinguish between an image of experience and one of vivid imagination. You can participate in an orgy or think of an orgy, your wee willie winkie will give the same standing ovation.

Any passing comment or trivial statements can have a devastating effect on our subconscious mind because it is not argumentative or analytical. It accepts all statements directly on the face value. Even prayers and beliefs are positive signals which we give to our subconscious mind as something acceptable and true.

The subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that you vividly imagine. You can fool it. It cannot tell the difference between real and imaginary experience.

The conscious and subconscious minds are connected through a filter. So we cant read the contents of our subconscious mind.

Thinking is not an action of the mind , but an action of our entire body. Tell your subconscious what you want repeatedly and it will produce it. . Every thing you have experienced using your 5 senses is part of the permanent memory of the subconscious mind, which never sleeps The subconscious mind acts on old beliefs stored over a lifetime.

Many of those beliefs you may have accepted without thinking. Or you may have absorbed them when you were too young to exercise choice. Negative suggestions with growing children gets rooted in their subconscious mind and is reflected later in their behavior.

By the way, you cannot talk anyone into 'happiness' because happiness is an inside job.

Hark, all patriotic Indians .  

When you get a message on foreign funded TVs  “ Do you think Team Anna must form a new political party,  to fight corruption in India— answer in YES or NO,  by giving missed call to this number 123456789. “ be very careful.

This is one way to know who all can be called on to the streets for mass scale flash protests , to pull down a lawfully elected government, so that the wheels of governance grinds to a halt..

Virtue words like anti-corruption, truth,  freedom , peace, our way of life,  etc are such easy platforms to ask such YES/ NO questions and polarize perceptions.

Being naïve , you will send a missed call YES.  Now your number is in the call list of potential revolutionaries in a computer which can send mass SMS messages.

Don’t get polarized by such message schemes.  Example:  “ Do you think as an Indian Muslim, the Babri Masjid incident and Godhra riots are good or bad—please send a missed call to 123456789 saying YES/ NO.   Again this is a fear/ discontent  platform .

Mark my words – as one day you will wonder why so may Indians came on the streets in a few seconds , exercising their right to recall  ( just because India preferred a MIG plane over a F16 fighter jet plane -OR why a particular minority community suddenly did mass exodus,  from a sensitive area.   This can be revenge or retribution,  just because someone patriot in power did NOT allow USA  to steal our nation’s resources or sign away further nuclear rights.

This is the age of mis-information.   PR and propaganda is interchangeable.   When US put embedded CNN reporters in every army unit during the Iraq war , you must understand that these are not truth reporters— rather they are PROFESSIONAL  LIE MANUFACTURERS,  who are trained by psychologists to reshape reality.   They are trained to manufacture content.

You have no idea how you can get  carried away by such vague  branding logos like “just do it” , “I am loving it”,  “yes, we can”  etc .  

Hollow placards displaying  "Support our troops.  Help save American lives",  before dropping a bomb on women and children in one corner of the globe, to fill the pockets of greedy American corporates , must be  treated for what they is worth.

My younger son who never would ask me for sweets , one day asked my wife for more Wriggley Double Mint chewing gum.  He asked with big round eyes as a 4 year old boy  “ Mummy, can I have some more?”— like Oliver Twist.   

Knowing that this piece of dialogue does NOT belong to my son, I searched for the empty carton and found out that Wriggleys had it printed on the bottom “ When you chewing gum gets over , ask for some more”.

USA has overthrown about 50 legally elected democracies, in the modern era .  “Globalization” is nothing but a empire building strategy in this age , when you cannot  go around brazenly colonizing countries.   

China’s is full of sweat shops .  They do slave labor for the WEST.   China has polluted her rivers ,land and air, by manufacturing stupid things like toys , clothes, electricals for the West.  The real important things like critical chips and vital electronic circuits are not given to China for manufacture.

USA has just realized that they have struck a hammer on their own feet.  For all this Chinese smoke rises high up,  goes across the pacific ocean like a balloon in 3 days flat and rains down on California in the form of acid rain .  This is the reason why all yanks prefer Chilean wine to Californian wine.  

USA will need to move the polluting industries from China to India.  I have been all over the West.  They have gone back to clean rivers, green fields and clear skies.   Third world countries are expected to pollute their land and decimate their fish in rivers , to produce for the West.

The new mantra of the modern messiah and prophet to control you,  is to keep you in fear,  distract you ,  marginalize you  . By doing this they will not allow you to use your perception in a rational manner .  

Don’t despair, we in India have less corruption and are more free than USA.  For in USA Democrat or Republican president means the same thing.  Both are chosen by the Bilderberg club, well in advance .

Check out our foreign funded TV channels, at prime time. This is sheer tamasha and it happens every day . The anchor will ask you a question. If he/she  smells an answer which does NOT suit his foreign master, or his own " delusional " perception he will will keep throwing you off track by interrupting loudly again and again.  And mind you this dumbo with low IQ, but is articulate and clever with words,  did NOT choose "communications" as a subject at college ( donation quota ) by rejecting IIT. When you pull yourself together and get back on track, he will again derail you, by cherry pickin' in between . Finally again when you get back on track with the truthful and correct answer, he will shoot off a sub question to some one else on the discussion panel and ignore you.  You can never get the truth across to the nation. 


This brings me to the meaning of a "polarized vote" .  One of my Muslim officers from UP  told me this.  He had gone to pray on a Friday , in one of the large mosques, while on leave . Half way through the maulavi's discourse, he tells everybody to take out their mobiles and send a SMS vote for a Muslim singer , who had reached the finals of a National singing competition, with 2 Hindus . He literally dictated the operation, press this number then press * then press this alphabet-- 

Since my officer did NOT want to get ex-communicated he complied. He was very surprised to know that this fatwa was given in a lot of mosques of UP and Bihar.  95% of the audience did NOT even know the singer.  

So, does this polarized sham vote mean a thing? Think over it. 

Recently we has a sham "greatest Indian" poll conducted by CNN IBN, which declared BR Ambedkar as the most valuable Indian.  You can check out my post by punching into Google search CNN IBN SHAM POLL FOR GREATEST INDIAN - VADAKAYIL

To be honest I have written this post for India's best selling author Chetan Bhagat.  

He is a column writer for Times of India and Dainik Jagran-and an ex-executive director of Goldman Sachs .  He is IIT + IIM. 

I saw a foreign funded TV channel interviewing him, and singing the praises of his latest book WHAT YOUNG INDIA WANTS. 

So I bought this book , read it from cover to cover and this is what I have to say to him without any malice. 

Chetan Bhagat needs to read this post. 

Only then then he can start writing "non-fiction"  books on how to guide the destiny of India and how to guide the destiny of 1.3 billion Indians. 

Sorry Bunty-- nay-- Chetan!  

I will be checking your next book for "Goldman Sachs speak", to check if you are telling us to search for the missing dollar.  I will NOT be as benign, as this para. 

Suggest you read my post DIRTY SECRETS OF BOSTON TEA PARTY- VADAKAYIL, to check out who runs Time magazine ( who has chosen you as top 100 powerful on this planet ) and who is Rothschild.

Time magazine also loved Amartya Sen. Punch into Google search AMARTYA SEN GETS NOBEL PRIZE- VADAKAYIL
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And if you want to know why Mamata Banerjee , who is a champion of the downtrodden , and NOT a yuppie, does NOT want FDI in multibrand retail, punch into google search WALMART IS NOT GOOD FOR INDIA- VADAKAYIL.

Thought:  The ear must NOT offer endless seeing , tasting, feeling and smelling lessons. 

Question: Are you a patriot, Chetan?

Indian Yuppies have read and rejected the doctrine of Ayn Rand in her book- THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS-, as it is NOT congruent with Indian Dharma. We do NOT need your bullshit spin on it.

Advice: You are right now caught in the chakravyuh of Ayn Rand . For your own good , punch into google search THE BACK SWING OF JOHN GALT- VADAKAYIL. 

So is Hindu bashing author Amish Tripati , who is also sponsored like you, for calling Lord Shiva a mere mortal,  in his book Shiva Trilogy. 

Sometimes animals are more perceptive than gullible humans--see video below.

Be all that you can be!

Grace and peace--here is a 7000 year old Vedic chant!

CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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