{"id":6333,"date":"2013-07-10T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2017-09-11T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:32:55","slug":"faith-mind-reasoning-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/faith-mind-reasoning-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith-mind &#038; Reasoning-mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-bottom: 0px;\">\u201cWhat I can reason out\u201d is more true than what I have faith in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/002_faith-mind-and-reasoning-mind1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6411\" title=\"Faith-Mind and Reasoning-Mind\" src=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/002_faith-mind-and-reasoning-mind1.jpg\" alt=\"Faith-Mind and Reasoning-Mind\" width=\"522\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/002_faith-mind-and-reasoning-mind1.jpg 522w, https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/002_faith-mind-and-reasoning-mind1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/002_faith-mind-and-reasoning-mind1-210x133.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are two kinds of mind \u2013 reasoning-mind and faith-mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mind which is based on reason (i.e. the reasoning-mind) is in an evolutionarily unstable state. Because reason goes on shifting \u2013 the logic for reason, the whole identity, the whole being \u2013 is shaped by it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a reasoning mind, thoughts are like water plants which are living on the viscous fluid called narrative of life. People call it <em>Leela<\/em>, but it&#8217;s not the <em>play<\/em> of life. It is the <em>interpretation<\/em> of life because we are mapping life into multiple stories \u2013\u00a0you keep converting all that you experience into a story of your own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You think that it is what IS \u2013 you call it <em>Leela<\/em>, but actually it is reason. You interpret everything in your own way \u2013\u00a0be it true or untrue \u2013 and therefore you completely lose touch with Reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat I can reason out\u201d is more true than what I have faith in &#8211; Mapping the reasoning mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9446,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/9446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}