Confusion, a Quality of the Great Mind
Even the God is confused to see that He made man and the man has become Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian; God
made earth, man has divided it into countries, and kills one another to live
By Mukesh Sharma
Be it a religious
leader, statesman, scientist, writer/poet or any intellectual, all have one
thing in common and that is confusion. Study reveals that the most of the great
minds of ancient time were confused lot; their chanced creations of thoughts, discoveries
and inventions that amazed and changed the world, were the products of their ‘severe’
confusion. The great theoretical physicist who propounded the ‘Theory of Relativity’,
Albert Einstein says:
“Confusion
of goals and perfectness of means seems to characterize our age.”
The confusion is a
state of mind where a confused with a desired goal is not able to decide what
to do and how to do in the prevailing present situation because of lack of
either past experience or the ability to foresee the future, and it may arise
under any situation at any stage of process and at any point of time.
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As far as confusion is
concerned, only two persons in the world have no confusion – an ignorant fool and a learned fool. The
former is always confirmed in his conviction; he has no doubts or surmises
about his abilities and capabilities; he pretends to know everything; he looks
at the world through the specs of his ignorance only. The latter is proud of
his knowledge collected from various sources; he assesses and assays the world
through his ‘acquired’ knowledge only; he cares a damn whether it is fake or
genuine.
Moreover, confusion
leads to knowledge, and the knowledge further paves the way for the conviction, and this conviction lays the
foundation of creation. The circle moves on and on – from confusion through
knowledge and conviction to creation. All the progress and advancement have
been made due to this eternally moving circle – from simple wheel to spaceship;
from homo erectus to well clad man.
Obviously, it is the confusion that has made the progress in the world
possible.
Michael
Faraday struggled a lot in the shocking confusion before he
could stumble upon his invention of
Electric Dynamo (in 1831), and that taught the world the practical use of
electricity.
Louis
Pasteur fought with confusing bacterias and came across the Pasteurization (1864) – the way to
prevent the growth of bacterias in substance like wine, beer, and milk in his
age.
In his confused bid to
develop a cheap substitute to ivory billiard balls, John Wesley Hyath happened to develop Plastic (1869) – a moldable versatile material chemically called
celluloid, and be it simple carry bag or any other thing, it has become an
inevitable need of daily life today.
Facing lots of confusion
in teaching the deaf, Alexander Graham
Bell, a teacher for the deaf at Boston University, laid his hands on the
technique to transmit sound via electricity, and that led to the invention of Telephone (1876), and android mobile is
just an upgraded version today, an indispensable need.
Groping in the darkness
of confusion, Thomas Edison chanced
upon to develop the idea that led to the discovery of light bulb (1879) – the way to illuminate even after sun-setting.
Encircling in confusion
around the big wheel of Penny Farthing (world’s
first ever cycle) for years, John Kemp
Bicycle (1885) came up with the idea of Bicycle with chain called in his time Velocipedes.
Confused by the sound
of motors, German Engineer Karl Benz developed
Motor Carriage (1895), the first
modern automobile, and today the world enjoys F-1 Formula race.
Rolling in confusion of
metallic ductability, Charles Martin came
to discover Aluminum (1886), the
part and parcel of modern life.
Wright
Brothers piloted the first ever Aeroplane (1903) of the world because of the confusion created by
the flights of the birds, and today the world has supersonic jets.
Loaded with confusion
of snail-mail, Ray Tomlinson worked
out the concept of e-mail (1972)
that changed the world of communication, likewise PC (personal computer) (in
1980s) and mobile in (1980s).
Out of utter confusion Tim Berners Lee, wrote the software for
www (World Wide Web), and that
changed the world of internet.
Even the greatest poet
and dramatist in Sanskrit language, Kalidas
emerged after the matrimonial confusion when he was rebuffed by the learned
wife Vidyotama. What is more, even the overconfused Tulsidas became Tulsidas after
the spousal rebuke, and he penned down the classic story of lord Rama – the Ramacharitmanas. Even the Gita came into existence out of the confusion
of Arjuna.
The confusion created
in the mind of Mohan Dass Karamchand
Gandhi when he was thrown out of the first class compartment of the train
reserved for white-skin people, made him to lead freedom struggle, and he
became Mahatma after independence.
As a wanderer, Modi is said to have spent prime years of his life in confusion,
and today he is the Prime Minister of India. Yet another man, projected by his ‘home-made’
political party – Congress, Rahul Gandh is said to be the most
confused man. People have mixed feelings about him (Rahul Gandhi). Some
maintain that he may never come out of the chaos
of confusion. However, some contend that he would grow out of confusion and
emerge as a ‘creator’, "a future PM of India."
Beyond confusion of
mistakes, there is experience; experience is the name given to mistakes. Beyond
confused man, there is nature. Beyond confusing nature, there is God. Even God
seems to be confused because he made man and he (man) has become Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian etc. He
(God) made the earth, man has divided it into countries, and kills one another
to live.
Evidently enough,
confusion is the quality of the great mind.
