Question: Sir, is duality in brain?
Speaker: Whenever you say brain, it is ‘my’ brain. My brain means me and the world. It is duality. This is fundamental duality that ‘I’ exist as something different from the world.
Basic characteristics of duality are:
– Two sides of duality appear as opposites.
– Two sides cannot exist without each other.
– The two sides are always together.
If the world is not there, you cannot be there. Whenever you are there, world will be there. So, the two sides of duality are always together. Two sides appear as opposite of each other. So, I am ‘Me’ and there is this world which is a stranger, a foreigner, a separate entity. Getting it?
Duality is the very stuff of the brain. There is nothing in the brain which is not dual. Every single word will have a dual opposite, otherwise it cannot exist. The entire existence, the entire world inside the brain is dualistic. Pleasure-pain, happiness-sorrow, today–tomorrow, me-you, white- black, here-there, everything is of a dual nature. This is there only because it’s opposite exists. If opposite does not exist, this will not exist.
