Did the Matrix have any truth..? Did Neo really wake up to the greater truth..? Are we really sleeping? These questions kept bothering me since I saw Matrix a few years back for the first time and somehow I kept getting signs this last year which kept bringing my mind back to these questions...
Looking back at the past 29 years, I try & think of all events that have happenned & have played an important role in shaping me & my mind, a question that keeps bothering me always is.. "What is the real reason for our existense?" So is there really a field where you & I are being grown, waiting to be fed intravenously to the machines one day? Definitely the Wachowski brothers did a great job of fool proofing the story & got a winner out of it, but can it be true? Doesnt seem likely... Then what is the truth?
How is it that a new born knows where to find the ever nourishing colostrum? How does he learn to walk & not fly? How is it that he knows what is blue & what is red? Why dosent he see a new colour? How does he start sensing what all other humans sense? Why does he get conditioned by society to see the earth as everyone else sees it? Why is it that at a certain stage he sets out to achieve something in life? Why is it that something in life becomes his prime objective? And then a stage comes when he falls in love with a woman... why? & then desires to have a family.. Why? Why does he then take the pain of bringing up the child & watch him/her repeat the entire life cycle once again? Why does he do all that is possible to ensure that this child gets all that he/she would ever need? Why does he ensure that this child grows to be a great human being? What is this need of leaving behind a name? Is it all scripted, then? My grandfather did say, that our fate is all written in God's own book. What book?
There arent answers which answer these questions, but the one thing that thinking about all this has helped me realise, is that every life must have a purpose. After all we can't just be living the programmed way... But havent I just been living the programmed way all these 29 years? So what is it that one should do? Live a nomadic life? Break all the patterns? Do the unacceptable? Question societal norms? Go to the Himalayas? How will that help? Unless I know what is the reason for my existense, until I know the objective of life, how do I break the programme? What will break the pattern? Should one break the pattern or think about it... or is it aginst Gods will? Didn't the machines want us not to wake up?
So am I still sleeping..? Or is this my awakening...?
The matrix is a puzzle and to break it you have to become one with the puzzle; when you become one with the problem then the problem is you and you need to solve yourself.
ReplyDeleteThere is another important truth which has scientific links; Agent Smith tells Morpheus about the human race and how it is similar to viruses.
Scientifically there is no linkage between the hominids and the current humans, and the level of intelligence we have is far more than hominids.
We mutate, we eat away the host (earth) we increase our numbers.
But comng back to your question(s) sleep is another form of conciousness what is that when you are asleep but woken that small time between the inhale and exhale.
BTW his name was Neo not Leo :-) - Gaurav M
Wonderfully written, and a great point has been raised. Whether we are programmed or are going by the Lord's wishes or are destined to follow a path is all upto our own beliefs. Some belieive in 'Karma'. The results of today's deeds will be found in your tomorrow and vice versa. Now, whether one wants to change the flow of events in one's life is upto one's will. It is easy to flow with the gentle flow of the river, and reach where your destiny or circumstances will let u go but to flow against or break the pattern is what takes lots of will power and courage.
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