Logic is Illogical

Illogic is the mother of logic. How many of us would accept the statement that logic is born from illogic?

We believe that everything in life adheres to logic. Nothing is accepted unless one believes it has a logical conclusion. Our logic might come across as the most illogical to someone else but to us it sounds well founded.

Science builds its theory on logic. Computer programs follows logic. Forensic investigations needs logic to reconstruct events. The system of communication follows logic. The whole world functions on logic. For us to come across as sane or mature we converse or argue or negotiate with logic. We expect logic even in our entertainment. But the whole universe sits on something that is so logically illogical.

Can the reflection be brighter than the source? asks Zen. The source of light is so unfounded but its principles follow logic. There is no logic as to why light travels but there is perfect logic in photons, reflections and refraction.  The source of matter and energy is illogical but it follows principles of science. It is logic which tells us why there is a sunrise and sunset but it is illogic which tells why the earth spins on its axis. It is bang theory that tells us how the universe came but it is illogic that would answer where did the emptiness that acted as the womb for the big bang (if at all as claimed) to occur come from. It is perfect logic that beyond every periphery there must be something. Applying the logic an infinite time one realizes the universe is endless. Logic knows it is limited and knows logically well that there can be no answer to it. Science knows logically well that answer to some of the question is 'That is the nature of existence. Any infinite probe would end in the same answer'. It is like you watching a movie from the middle that is logically constructed frame to frame but has no  idea as to what led to it.

It is like a movie where the first half is on Tom and Jerry and then all of a sudden it is Titanic for the second half. Now the two can independently appear extremely logical in spite of the absence of a beginning or an end. But for a person who has watched the entire movie will find no logical connection between the stories. He won't know how the Tom and Jerry movie would end nor why did Titanic sink.

There was this centipede that was in the habit of going for a walk every morning. It is on one such routine walk that a frog stopped the centipede to clarify on a pressing confusion. "Uncle centipede I have seen you walk on many mornings. I am extremely perplexed to see you walk with such ease with all those 100 legs of yours. I am amazed how you mange to do this? How do you know which leg to move first, then the second, then the third and so on? Don't you get confused as to which leg to move next? I couldn't hold it anymore and I wanted to know today. Please tell me" The astonished centipede looked puzzled. "I have been walking all my life, it never occurred to me how I managed all these years. I never looked down to count my legs. Now that you told me I will find out what logic do I apply to actually move the legs" The centipede tries to figure the mystery. It immediately falls on its face with all its legs entangled. The centipede angrily shouts at the frog. "You idiot all my life I was walking so fine, now you have brought this question in my mind I am afraid to walk again. Out of the billion other centipede I will be the only centipede who can't manage my hundred legs. you have brought shame to me."

Logic tells us that we laughed because we found something funny but what is the logical basis on which our mind labels something as 'funny' a fraction of a second before it is called as funny.

Logic belongs to the mind. Logic is so limited in its knowledge. Logic deals with the known. You have to go beyond the mind to see the illogical abundance, the divinity knows no logic. Unknown has no logic. Creation follows no logic.

How can a mind which is just a part logically comprehend the whole? How can logic ever comprehend the illogical? The truth lies beyond the mind.

- Some of these are excerpts from the fiction book that I am writing 'Rising above the spheres of Fear'

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