Musings of a Philosophical Mind by Ketan Doshi

A big hello to the philosophical souls and all my friends here. I had a penchant for philosophy since my college days. I am highly grateful to a professor of my college who recognized my love for philosophy, when once I was caught reading a book called “Being and nothingness” written by the great French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre while my professor’s lecture was on. The professor had confiscated the book then and had taken it with him. He was an economics professor who luckily for me turned out to be an ardent and zealous reader of books based on philosophy. I came to know about it on the next day after the economics lecture got over, when he called me personally in the staff cabin and said “Hey boy, have you read this book fully?” I said “No Sir, I have read approximately 70% of the book”. He stared at me in an amused way for a while and then asked again “Son, did you nicely fathom the cognitive content written in the book?” I said “Yes sir, mostly”. After that, he spoke with me for at least an hour on the book and on various topics related to philosophy. He was very much impressed by my abstract thoughts and the ability to understand the complex nuances of the subject. Finally he said that son if you have gone up to reading 70% of this particular book and the other books that you have read till now based on this very refined subject which is not everyone’s cup of tea then let me tell you that you will certainly become “Something” in your life and you will always remain happy and contented with it because you have understood the art of staying alive very soon. You have a keen interest and desire to read and learn more on this subject and you possess the finesse to wisely extract the substantive elements from the complexities of philosophy. After that my love for philosophy bloomed further.

I followed my love and interest for philosophy and the masters who followed this mystical and mostly unexplored path of enlightenment by following their own doctrine to discover a cryptic world of their own which later on irradiated in their writings. Many of my friends often tell me that “Bro, if you know so much about this complex subject then why don’t you edify others with your writing prowess? Well, I tell my friends that the reason that I don’t write it more is that many of you may not like the ramifications and the intricacies involved in this. There is a very small section of our society who actually likes this subject and is keen on delving deeply in to it.

Today, I thought about posting something here and share it with all of you regarding whatever philosophy I have read, heard, learnt, experienced and observed throughout my life in a simplified form, as much as possible, so that everyone here can understand and digest it. I am sure that after modifying the complexities, the end result will be much more fathomable and understandable to all my friends. I will try to make it more simplified. In future, I will present many such philosophical snippets by way of short stories too so that everyone can enjoy it and I hope my friends here will like my efforts.

I will sign off with some lines that carry a philosophical touch:-

“Friends, do remember if there is a worthwhile seed in a rotten apple fruit, man saves it. If there are gold coins in a heap of garbage, man extricates it. If there are small pebbles in wheat, a housewife removes them. Similarly, we might encounter or see many untoward incidents in the world, yet we must learn to choose all that is good amidst the bad. We should try to safeguard it and preserve it.