We can explain poverty, the reasons for our failures, the prosperity of leaders of various hues, the reasons for others cheating us in several ways.
One of the ways , I found it useful, to escape from all the above, is to get a better understanding of
REALITY. VS PERCEPTIONS.
IF ONE CAN SEE THE REALITY YOU CAN NEVER BE MADE POOR.
HOW THE BAD LEADERS AND CROOKS IN THE SOCIETY BECOME POPULAR AND PROSPEROUS IS COVERING THE REALITY WITH FALSEHOOD.
Perceptions
Most rich & Powerful play around with human perceptions to gain positions and possessions.
The idiots, for lack of understanding of perceptions, become victims and live on the edges of life&death.
Any one who read through the book, with a lot of stories will never become poor or exploited.
Introduction
Without exception every one of us feel that, “I know the truth.”
None of us know truth a.k.a reality. What we know is merely a perception which is a distorted truth.
Some would say that “I will go to the bottom of the issue and find the truth”. The truth is, not that simple to find-out, as we wish to.
Truth or reality can be found wading through several layers of falsehood covering the truth. That require extensive learning & thinking.
After reading several real life stories, we would realize the damage that the perceptions cause to our lives.
The distorted truth is perception.
With the exception of men-of-knowledge, such as saints, sages and sufis, no one has clue to distinguish between truth and distorted truth.
Others, like you and me mistake perception to be reality and live through pains caused by deception and deprivation.
Who distorts the reality?
Many in our living environment distorts our reality. Those who do so distort the truth to profit by it. The merchants, professionals like doctors, builders, political leaders, trade union leaders man power consultants, HR professionals .
Some times, we ourselves allow distortion made of reality by others, driven by greed, foolishness.
By nature our sense perceptions are defective to various extent.
Some have color blindness. Some have hearing problems. All of these hide the truth from us in some ways. The list is endless. So we end here.
Those who do not realize that what they see is corrupted truth, stand to become poor.
The first step to saving ourselves from exploitation and poverty is to realize that every one distorts the truth and project falsehood as real.
We will see in the following pages a few instances from real life, how people are vulnerable. The trickster exploit the vulnerable by merely painting a falsehood over the truth.
The first story explain how our own failed faculties can distort our own perception.
Chapter 1
A High Tech device in a tiny village.
“Failing faculties distort the truth”
I visit a tiny village, close to a south Indian town of Trichy, on the bank of Cauvery.
The village is popular for a small but famous temple there. I visit the temple, typically, once in two years.
The village consists of just one street and two temples. The total number of houses in the village could be a little over hundred.
For few years the village had only old people while the younger generation in the village left the village for lucrative employment in cities.
The village and its surrounding are lush green, a great feast for the eyes and mind.
There is no need for Government supplied water for a living. All one does in a village is to go to back-yard, draw as much water one needs from their well.
They people in the village use so much of water that city folk can never dream of.
Here, no one seek to measure the water consumed by their neighbor. Water meter is redundant in this part of the world.
All the water they use and the rain water gets into the earth without any need for the expensive water harvesting techniques.
People do not quarrel on how much water other’s use.
Let us get into the story.
I got down from the bus on the main road and started walking.
To reach the village, one has to walk through a narrow road formed naturally as people walked.
Typically six festivals in one of the two temple drew a huge crowd from nearby villages and cities around it.
To reach the village, one has to walk through a narrow road formed naturally as people walked.
Typically six festivals in one of the two temple drew a huge crowd from nearby villages and cities around it.
There were some like me who came from far away cities to attend the temple’s annual festival..
The few whom I could recognize in the village were dead and other have become older.
As I entered the village I was welcomed by an aunt. Despite her failing eyes she recognised me as confidently called me by a name that was not mine.
I don’t mind. I am used to “name calling” in our living place. There are people like Maya in every place. The role of Maya is to show unreal as real and vice versa.
Whenever someone resist Maya in its act of deception, they would call you by name that was never theirs.
The aunt started off with her customary inquiries about my family member whom she never knew.
The aunt was too eager to talk about the village and the new developments.
The aunt was too eager to talk about the village and the new developments.
Her age has victimized her hearing faculties too. All that we need to do was to nod the head, for she cannot hear what we say.
The first news that she shared was about a high technology deployed in a house next to her!
She stared saying that her neighbor became almost deaf and she had to knock the door several time and shout several times before the inmates understand that some one is at the door.
Recently, the neighbor’s son who is a “big engineer” who lives in a far away city has placed a High Tech Automatic device to open the door.
I was stunned on hearing that.
I had to use sign language to ask her how that worked. She repeated, it is high-tech.
They have kept a switch near the door. The door opens automatically and the people in the house come out.
I was speechless on hearing the high-tech solution.
I moved on and entered the temple.
An hour passed. I was restless to know all about the automatic system that opened the door.
I found a person in his late fifties a resident of the village. He was one of the five temple priests. I ensured that he had his faculties in-tact before I ventured to learn from him about the automatic system in the village.
I inquired him about the entry of high-technology in their tiny village.
He laughed for a while and said, they had installed just a calling bell in that house. That is all!
Then why did the Aunt talked about high-technology?
That is what all about perception is, replied the priest.
He continued. The bell was installed deep inside the house. Someone who is hard of hearing cannot hear the sound of the bell from outside.
What aunt explained was the truth that she knew. Her failed faculties distorted the truth about a door bell in her perception.
If she could hear the sound of the bell, she would not have thought, it was some high-tech device.
All that she finds is some one pressing a switch and one or the other of the elderly resident in the house open the door.
Lesson: Mostly, there is no high technology around us. There is no mystery or magic either.
In order to know the truth all one need to do is to keep all their faculties strong, including the thinking faculties.
When some one propose some economic activity to you, be warned that, he is trying to paint falsehood over the reality.
In order to know the truth all one need to do is to keep all their faculties strong, including the thinking faculties.
When some one propose some economic activity to you, be warned that, he is trying to paint falsehood over the reality.
Do not allow others paint (or distort) over the reality.
We will read a few real life stories several ways, even the educated, global citizen robbed by small tricksters by altering realities.
We will read a few real life stories several ways, even the educated, global citizen robbed by small tricksters by altering realities.
