Perception depends on perceiver

17 Dec 2015 - Delhi : 
Whatever you believe you start seeing that thing outside. How many times it has happened with you that you expect a question to come in exam and during the exam you end up misunderstanding a question(due to you trying to expect something). If something is going on in your mind, you answer it on that basis and not on what the person has asked.

Last night before  sleeping i set up an alarm to wake up early morning at 4 am and the last thought that i had was to wake up at 4 am on hearing the alarm. Soon in time Alarm rang, and in half sleep stage (when my consciousness is still in dream world and yet to become aware of the visible world) i dismissed the alarm. I was feeling tired and decided to sleep a little more. I looked at time and it was 4 am. I remained in bed and decided to sleep a little more. Woke up after some time and looked at my digital watch it said the time as 4.45 am.  My roommate in next room was awake and it was unusual as he normally wakes up at 9 AM. Did he not sleep the whole night ? Unusually today i was feeling tired and decided to use the bathroom. While using the bathroom i checked my mobile and saw the time as 11 pm. OMG .. what has happened ? I was shocked. I came to know then the alarm bell i wake up to was actually a call from a friend which i had dismissed and the time i saw later was a projection of my mind which wanted to believe it was 4. I only saw the minute part of digital watch and made up the hour part. i.e 11.45 became 4.45. 

Now look at this image and see the train will follow your expectations. Direction of train will depend upon your desire and way of looking.



Did you get it ? If not please try again.

Sometime i wonder if everything that we see is influenced by our way of perception. If perception depends upon perceiver , what is this world? Is this world really Maya as the vedantic scriptures declare. One sees pleasure in something while other finds pain in the same thing. Pleasure appears in sense objects yet no one is happy in the world after seeking sensual objects. Vedanta declares that when we fix the perceiver , perception becomes perfect. (Jaisi Drishti Vaisi Srishti)

A story connected with Akbar and Birbal is worth sharing here, 

One day the Emperor Akbar saw a woman hugging and kissing a very dark, ugly and unattractive child. He was very surprised to see that. He thought and thought but could not think why? He asked Birbal that why she was doing that to such an unattractive child. Birbal replied innocently, “Huzoor, he must have been her own child. For every mother her own child is the most beautiful child in the world.” 

The Emperor did not seem to be convinced with this explanation, and Birbal had guessed this from the Emperor’s face. Next day, in the presence of the Emperor, Birbal ordered a Guard to present the most beautiful child in the world in the court. Next day, the Guard brought a more unattractive and ugly child with buck teeth and his hair stood like a porcupine and presented to the Emperor. “This is the most beautiful child in the world, Your majesty.” the Guard stammered.

The Emperor asked, “How do you know that he is the most beautiful child in the world?” “Your Majesty, I went home and posed my problem to my wife. She told me to bring our child to the court.” the Guard replied meekly.

P.S : Regarding the friend who called from today onwards i will consider him as close friend as only a close friend can disturb so late -:).