Kannadasan – A Realized Master (Part 4)
Coming back to Kannadasan's 'Who am I?" (Nee/Naan Enbathenna?) song, “after all, over a trillion life forms have come and gone in this planet and we don't have to believe 'ourselves' and our imagined story to be something 'special' and ’individual/unique to ourselves’”, says Eckhart Tolle in his books and YouTube Lectures. After all, we are just living organisms like our other senior brothers and sisters viz., reptiles, amphibians, avians and mammals. Difficult to accept? Let us continue our journey inwards to know how ‘our fictional inner world’ is created. Indranil Chakraborty in his book "Stories at Work" confirms, "the brain converts raw experience into a story and then considers, ponders, remembers and acts on the self-created story, not on the actual input experience!" It only goes to prove that our brain generates ‘its own stories’ to help us ‘understand the real world’. Boom! And hence ‘our’ reality is generated by ...