I
have no different opinion regarding the subjective nature of man’s existence. The
world is always “as I see it”. It is only when man experiences the death situation, which he always sees in
the external world, that he starts to realise that the world is there, and will
continue whether he is there or not. Death cannot be a subjective experience,
as nothing else exists after that. This could be an existentialist view point,
as Sartre asks, “what is death? Death is my total non existence. It is as
absurd as birth – it is no ultimate, authentic moment of my life, it is nothing
but the wiping out of my existence as a conscious being. Death is only a
witness to the absurdity of the human existence.”
It
is to transcend this situation and the non acceptability of being reduced to
nothingness, that man undergoes a subjective transformation. It is his
awakening. He is not born with the knowledge of his own uniqueness till the
moment he is faced with the crisis of non existence. Whether you need it or
not, transformation has to occur.
It
is very difficult for man to “simply understand as to what it means to be a
substance and what it means by existence”. So in the process of understanding
himself, man undergoes a transformation from a state of ignorance to
enlightenment. What enlightenment is a another question. Whether he will find
the meaning of life, of ways of perpetuating his existence and finds a way to
immortality is a still a question. Of course he may find solace in the belief
of a another life, in reincarnation and that death is only the beginning of
another existence.
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