Most of us look outwards for reasons of security, of prestige, because we want to have career progress, or because we are just curious and we do not even know what’s behind the curiosity. And then there are those who want to know the curious one itself. If there is no conscious point behind your choices or actions, then the default point is biology. The other center is when you are coming from an illuminated point that wants to know, not because it does not know why it wants to know, but because it is interested in knowing, and therefore the knower itself.
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Questioner: Hi sir, I am Devendra. I am doing a PhD in particle physics. So, it’s been a great honor to be a part of IISc Bangalore, and no doubt it’s been a greater part of being a Gita Samagam student for the last two years. So, it’s been great working with outstanding researchers at IISc Bangalore, and it’s been a great experience.
But my question is about those outstanding researchers itself. When I see those researchers, and also me together; I see that they are brutally honest and rigorous in their labs, at their workplace. But when they step out from the department or from their workplace, I see that they are highly conformist. They are as dogmatic as the normal person we see around us.
So, I see this thing as an anomaly, or rather a dissonance, because how can the same critical mind be so superstitious in one place, and when he goes to some other place or some other part of life, it feels to me the reel like, Ek dam se zindagi badal gayi, jazbaat badal gaye, all this. So, I want clarity about this problem.
