Many people
may be surprised and may like to ask me
this question that whenever I make any public appearance (not that very often I
do that In fact it is rare.But in the
recent past because my involvement with the quest forum the frequency has
slightly increased) I often quote the works of Khalil Gibran, Labanese born
American writer that too his only one book,The
prophet.To some it may appear that it is the only book I have read so far
or I am not familiar with any other authors.The fact is something else.Hence, a
small clarification.
We the
humans have a special problem.(I do not know how the other species in the
animal kingdom manages it.) We would like to express what is going inside our
mind/brain to other fellow beings. Brain is the center of all our thought
processes.That thought process can not be as such transferred to other mind .We
need to develop some technique to do that.As an evolved species we have
developed a way out-developed language/languages for it.We try to code our
thought process into some language and broadcast.As with any communication
system at the receiver side it has to be decoded.Once decoded it should produce
the same thoughts/feelings in the receivers’ brain/mind.But for effective
communication coding and decoding has to be effectively matched.Any mismatch in
it is going to cause error which can cause mis-understanding instead of
understanding.The transmitter and receiver capabilities are different and most
often transmitter is broad casting especially in public appearance.So it is one
to many and not one to one.So most often it can end up in mess.A coding process
which takes care of all these is very difficult to come because of the number
of variables involved.At the same time we want to communicate our
thoughts/feelings.Here we can look for an existing code and if satisfies your
requirements and you feel that it is better than your coding and hence it may
create less errors/misunderstandings could be a good choice.This is specially
important when you are broadcasting and
not having one to one or having one to many.Ever since I have gone through
Gibran’s work especially ‘The prophet’ I felt that his coding is much better
and I can very well use his code for expressing myself and will have universal
appeal as compared to my code.
