" There is no way you can listen to anything without interpretation" - UG

UG is reminding us that we are no more than socially engineered 'reference points'.

Human interactions and transactions are a daily social necessity. Understanding, translating or interpreting is the only way to function sanely and intelligently within this social order or framework.

Because every social interaction or transaction is rooted in this 'reference point' , every act of understanding or interpretation will only strengthen, fortify and legitimize the social beast.

" Problem of living has become a very tiring business " - UG

UG is a master disruptor. He cuts to the chase and peels off layers of acquired meanings that have crept into our verbal structures and got deeply entrenched.

Every thought, word, expression, meaning that we have inherited is culturally soaked and biased. Heaps of misinformation and disinformation lie buried beneath our indomitable belief structures or the value system.

UG here, is explicating life and living, in the simplest of words stripping off all the mystery.

For UG, the questions on life and its meaning, however profound, were just abstractions, mental gymnastics. He focused on ground realities, our problems of living, pointing out that they are our own creations. Problems of poverty, hatred, terrorism, cultural wars, all the problems of living, he maitained have their roots in our ways of thinking and the inherited value system.

" Intellect is the cause of destruction..." UG

UG is de-constructing Buddhi or Intellect here.

The constant use and reshaping of thought is the intellect. This, by the way is the process of human learning. The more we learn, the more we experience, the more we gather knowledge, the more we end up sharpening the intellect.

Artificial Intelligence (A I) mimics this exact process of human learning. ChatGPT is just the beginning!

A I machines gather 'intellect' using enormous computing power and speeds

( hardware ). Trained initially by the humans with the help of powerful algorithms and unfailing mathematical models, the machines are then exposed to enormous amounts of information (or Big Data) in any field.

The machines then go on the 'auto' mode and by constantly running and re-running thier algorithms and using statistical models on the big data that they acquire, begin to 'learn' ( Machine Learning or M L) and 'see' patterns, 'recognise' things, places and people, 'make' judgements, 'take' decisions and 'predict' events all on their own without any explicit instructions. That is pretty much all of the attributes of a regular human intellect.

A I , the experts predict, will surpass the human intellect very soon. The greatest intellect, Einstein, with an I Q of 160 will be no match to the acquired intelligence of a machine in just a few months from now, say the experts.

UG here speaks of intellect turning into a weapon of its own destruction and so do the experts who say that A I could soon turn into the next 'nuclear bomb' in the wrong hands!

" Thought is our enemy " UG

Thought fakes identity (I or the self) through separation. And then gives itself continuity or protection through purpose (rights and wants).

"The intellect has not helped me..." - UG

Intellect is the showman that runs the transactional world (or the superimposed reality -UG)

Demonstrably, intellect (methodical, refined thinking) is capable of dealing with myriad problems of existence, whether it is learning a technique, finding a job, building a home, driving a car, using a computer...so on.

This gives rise to the erroneous notion that intellect is a comprehensive 'problem solver'.

UG debunks this myth and points out that intellect cannot resolve 'the living problems' of life like love, hatred, anger, jealousy, division etc. The instrument is hugely limited and singularly incapable of finding solutions for many problems associated with living in society.

Problems born of thinking, cannot be solved by thinking.

Psychology - the tenacious world of superimposed reality

Psychology - the tenacious world of superimposed reality

In this deep dive, UG de-constructs and lays bare the roots of 'conditioning' or 'psychology' or 'superimposed reality.'

Conditioning is layered atop biology for the sole purpose of 'functioning sanely and intelligently (sic) in the world.'

This process of conditioning helps the biology to actually survive in two different ecosystems - the natural environment (where all living creatures get schooled or conditioned...or the biological conditioning) and the artificial environment (where humans get soaked in the superimposed reality of culture, society, religion, god...or the fallacious psychological conditioning).

UG is a pointer, not a promise!

Every cell, every tissue, every human perception is contaminated and colored by knowledge. Conditioning, on the other hand, is inevitable for human beings in society.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad describes the corruption of senses by 'knowledge and experience' (superimposed culture) as the death of the senses. (Chapter I, Third Brahmana, B.U.)...freedom from knowledge (dying to acquired knowledge) as true liberation.

Calamity or death as described by UG, in his case, was a natural, acausal event that put an end to the tyranny of human knowledge and experience of centuries.

For us, UG is a phenomenon that points to the vast unknown dimensions and possibilities of human creation. And will debunk the many assumptions and presumptions in the extant literature on such phenomena.

UG is a pointer, not a promise!