Slowly recovering from a stiff neck. This has been troubling me for the past few days. Anyway, I wanted to share a small story that set me thinking. It goes this way,

Long long ago, in a distant town, a piper was walking down the street playing a pipe. His music was so melodious that people on the streets started to dance. Even passers by who heard the music stopped by and started to dance to the music. It was a wonderful feeling. Then came along that street a deaf man. He saw a bunch of people moving around in a funny way. It did not make any sense to him and he started to wonder whether the people in that town have gone crazy and he stood there watching them unable to comprehend the situation. And he moved on...

I hope you can imagine it. Many a times we have looked at things around us, things that we couldn't comprehend or felt that it was unintelligible. We come to conclusions that it is "crazy" and move on. What we could have been missing is melodious music that we couldn't hear.

As human beings we function by judging everything around us. It is the way we have learnt to exist. Judgement arises based on the various elements like intelligence, sensory powers, intuition, randomness, knowledge etc., that we develop over the years either by reading, listening, experiencing, practicing or any of those infinite ways in which we could gain them. What we fail to recognize while we judge is the fact that the knowledge that we possess could be limited and may not be adequate enough to make a qualitative judgement. We might have been like that deaf man unable to hear the music.