My responsibility right now is to complete an assignment that is due for 10th October and I hope to finish it by today itself but while solving a data processing inequality question: I saw a beautiful quote which sparked the desire in me to clarify the fog around a very permanent thought in my mind which I always use to relate to things around me on random days. The quote goes as:

It is different, they say, from knowledge. It is different, they say, from ignorance. –Isha Upanishad

It just striked my realisations that I had been collecting over all these years, sometimes explaining them to people imperfectly but never coming to a concrete conclusion. I feel that there is a loop within which whole of our life goes and gets complete. I will take an example from my personal life:

Till 5th standard, I hated Maths. I could solve problems but I never enjoyed it because I never could thought why I was doing it or never gave it a thought. Things looked insignificant. But after 6th standard, I literally loved it the most. I spent so many hours in a day, finishing maths book in 1-2 months only and I could feel there was this stage: Things looked hard, I solved them and then they looked significant for some time followed by them losing that special place of being hard and hence losing a bit of significance but not becoming insignificant as a whole. You see the pattern? In order to arrive at a 90% level of insignificance, we start with 100% insignificance, gain 10% significance and get to some other form of significacne or insignificance. I no longer felt things to be greater than my potential but I respected them. This is like there is some gain in entropy but information gain too only to arrive at something very similar to the initial stage we start with.

No doubt, this thing affected me: I started ignoring rules to be followed, I started becoming free yet not chaotic, I started making mistakes in small calculations because I considered that avoiding mistakes in them is not something of my interest as it is something that can be done very easily.

All these traits are also showed by students who don’t start with anything at all, who are lazy and ignorant. Does this mean that knowledge is just another form of ignorance? And that if you are not ignorant at some level then that just means you don’t really know the reality of things??

It’s like when I become good (perfect in my opinion) at playing a song on keyboard, I do those kinds of mistakes which beginners do. They are significant and insignificant both!!!!

I want to list more examples but I need to complete my assignment now. I’m fascinated by these small thoughts that come randomly out of nowehere in my mind. I hope I learn to preserve them carefully soon.


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