New Perspectives: Chandra Vikash, part 1

Chandra Vikash is the president of Healthy Vaishali Happy Vaishali. He is forty years old, married, and has two children. His two-month-old organization has a few trustees and has garner some attention, including a possible documentary by people who work or have worked for National Geographic.

Vikash has a strong personality, often overpowering to the uninitiated. Vikash struggles against the Zeitgeist, which is a world moving towards its own consumer-driven demise. Due to his new life and his recent, Vikash and his family need to find a way to handle a larger burden of stress.

Here is a list of key ideas that define many of Chandra Vikash's conversations:

1. Nonduality- As the first assumption of Vikash, the view that the mind is a reflection of the cosmos. Dualism here does not just mean soul and body division but more specifically subjective and objective. I personally find this view as undermining any empirical epistemology, which I have yet to find someone who holds nondualistic position that does not use it. Vikash argues that empirical epistemology, despite a few major weaknesses, just confirms the 'intuitive knowledge' that one realizes when they overcome the illusion of dualism through mediation.
2. Cyclical History- The idea is that the present reflects what the future is and the past has been. Though it reminded me of the key assumption of geology 'The present is the key to the past', this is actually a statement of cycles of events. The present is like the future and past because history is like the tides under this understanding.
3. Tantra- Sanskrit for technology but referring to specifically the use of power through the human body. By absorbing elemental energies, the human can fly and use super strength. Through societies move away from the Vedas, humanity has declined, and this why humanity has lost its strength. An example of this decline is that people will not go out in the sun, depending on the comfort of air conditioning, and this prevents people from continuing the tradition of farming. The reason why there is no evidence of this technology other than in the Indian literature is that it does not leave an impact like modern technology.
4. Randomness- Whenever something reflects events not going as planned, Vikash says something about this being an example of randomness. This view that the world is random comes from Vikash's personal experience of how flustered he would become when he tried to control the course of events. While not being able control events could reflect a random world, it could just be evidence that people just does not cause everything responsible for what they plan, so if some cause is not going your way, then your plans fall apart. This out of order cause could be a person or the weather or a bunch of things.