Imagine a water molecule. A rock is incognizant of the presence of the droplet. It will exist unperturbed. Despite the stone’s surface being moistened with the water droplet, it remains unaware. The rock remains impenetrable, and the usefulness of water molecules is, decidedly, absent. Stone will turn to sand with repeated pelting of water droplets, stone, and sand remain undeterred. Usefulness remains elusive. Existence of water droplets is evident to the observer, but incognizable to a stone. Truth of the water droplet is non-existential to the stone. Same molecule of water landing on soil will absorb welcomingly. Absorbed immediately, and offered to the labyrinthine radicles domiciling underground. Selfless and useful action of soil dampened with a water molecule. Soil does not remain impervious as the stone. It is aware that the surface below is the domicile for a vast underground universe. Its hermetic existence is dependent on the soil delivering nourishment in the form of water, unselfishly. Water molecules, thus, are useful to the soil, and to the latent world below. The presence of water molecules was pervious to the soil. Useful to the labyrinthine systems below. The droplet existential. Truth, thus, is both existential and non-existential. Existential when purposeful; non-existent when nonpurposeful. Quality of truth is useful. It is, both, existential, and non-existential.
Humanity is an existential truth. We exist. Seven billion plus of the human race occupy hospitable, and inhospitable land. Many existed once, many exist now, and many exist unmanifested, awaiting their dawn. Past, present, and future of the human condition must be understood in the context of truth. Truth turns a stone to sand when impervious, and nourishes permeable soil. When truth can act upon insentient stone, and soil mercilessly, and mercifully, impact on a superior race can be devastatingly profound should be accepted, unqualifiedly, by humanity.
Do we cease to be truthful when we depart for an onward, unknown, journey? Or do we exist as non-existential truth? We value life immensely. It is our innate desire to remain alive. Natural tendency. It is an absolute right to have the desire to live. Without desire, the platform of life is unsupported. Existence, unlike in animal species, for the human race is dualistic truth. Truth of the physical world, and truth of the metaverse. Our journey in life must contend with both dualities. Humanity gets reduced, and ultimately eliminated when our observational, operational, and philosophical world consists of mere physical world. Existential nature is palpable to our sensory organs. Non-existential nature is palpable, only, for intelligence. Humanity cannot exist with the mere singularity of nature. Domain of singularity belongs to the animal kingdom. We are humans, conclusively superior, but mired in the singularity of the physical world. Our existence is weakened when we are bound by the physical world. We will possess life, but the trajectory of life takes a plunge downward. A downward trajectory for human existence is a descent into the animal realm. In the realm of animals, humanity is fraught with unsolvable problems. Human journey with the singularity of the physical world is a journey in the Saharan Desert. Our optics deceive us with mirages of overcoming problems, in fact, we will be sinking in the hot sand. Our minds must reach beyond the visible realm. An invisible realm. Invisible to the unintelligent. Illuminated to the intellect. Duality of truth.
Searching, accepting, and living with eternal truth is the quality humanity must possess at all times; each generation must renew this search afresh. Truth, for humanity, is an eternal pursuit. Truth will not change, but the pursuit of truth must remain in sharp focus in every generation. Truth gives humanity the strength to overcome existential challenges with ease. Just as intelligence is free from problems, truth is yet another weapon in human arsenal for life free of problems. As a higher order species, it is natural and essential to question our origins. Who we are is an eternal question? Why we are here, and why we face problems, and the disparity that we witness are essential to understand. Every generation must contend with these thoughts. When humanity stops to examine the condition of existence, then degradation of the human race commences. We bring our own calamitous end.
Is it possible to imagine the human race without human ancestry? If we go back 100 generations, a span of 1500 years, we can, indisputably, claim human ancestry. Rewind annals of time further, 15,000 years we will, unquestionably, accept human ancestry. Reaching further and further back, we cannot imagine a moment of time when our descendants would have shared ancestry differing from humanity. Decillions of people have lived and left this world without intelligence is a thought worthy of exploration, with unrelentless vigor, to discover the truth that we did not awaken to intelligence centuries back, Age of Knowledge. When we witness intelligence in every aspect of our existential world, how did human ancestry survive without intellect for eons? Journey of life, minus intelligence, is impossible for not only the human race, for any living organism has to be philosophically, and logically accepted. It is impossible, and illogical to assume that humanity survived, unintellectually, ever. Human ancestry is a non-existential, invisible realm of life.
Non-existential for a stone is a quality of unawareness. Non-existential for humanity is the discovery of the invisible realm. Invisible is vaster than visible spectrum. Visible controllable, invisible uncontrollable. Visible finite, invisible infinite. Object visible, quality invisible. External visible, internal invisible. Micro to macro, planets to stars, stars to galaxies, galaxies to cluster of galaxies, cluster of galaxies to universe, universe to dimensional universe, and dimensional universe to beyond, every object obeys truth of their existence. The interdependencies between galactic to a tiny molecule are beguiling. Everything in this universe shares usefulness with each other. They radiate with the energy of truth. Truth is magnanimous. Systems of life perched atop truth. Invisible is beautiful. Invisible is fragrant. Invisible is elegance. Truth is a splendor of inexpressible joy. Truth is boundless vigor. Truth is the energy powering our Universe and beyond.
Greatness of humans lies in the possession of this immense vastness, imprisoning it in our minds, and allowing it to power our life for higher and higher purposes. Absent the power of truth, generational truth, ancestral truth, truth of here and beyond shrivels life to unleash insurmountable problems for humanity. Whether humanity wills, or doesn’t will, the unleashing of truth on humanity is a post-modern certainty.
Fragrance of Humanity 
Very beautifully written. A complex complex topic has been deciphered very well. The perspective of near term view vs. long term view is something to ponder about. What you don’t know is what you don’t know is very well articulated. The knowledge of one’s existence is beyond one person’s comprehension. Agree, what may appear to be a mere happenstance has real long term repercussions. Happy to follow and read your blog. Keep it going!
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