I have been itching to blog.But I have not been able to pull myself up just doing do--because so many are dying every day and the positivity rate is way above 10 percent.If I were to blog at this moment,it must be something to do with mitigating these problems.
But the imperialistic power display enacted in New Delhi just a few days ago have forced my hands.
So far,psychopaths,here in Imphal valley,run amok but,with one important qualification,--they are working under some sort of a unified leadership,how so ever,amorphous and rag tag that leadership might be.(By the way,'Saamba' is the Manipuri term for psychopath).
But the new power re-alignment,as hinted by that imperialistic power display,have given the deathly blow to that amorphous and rag tag unified leadership.Right at the moment it is crumbling down.
From now on,numerous and nimble groups of psychopaths will be running amok.
Coincidentally,I have been putting in a lot of thought on the subject of the necessity of a conceptual mooring for a small population society to stay united.Or even a commonly shared conceptual mooring that might help bring about unity amongst small population societies.
Initially,my curiosity got tickled when I learn that the tiny strip land,called the Imphal valley,,has nearly 700 'laibungs'.Why so many?
To my mind,big picture interpretation of 'Lai Haraoba' is--'Keep creating Angoms'.
So, our architects' priority seems to be the sending out the message--'Keep creating Angoms'--to the coming generations.In other words,they seem to think that creating more 'Angoms' should be utmost priority of our society.
This premises got me asking questions:
a) If they are saying that creating more 'Angoms' is our utmost priority,do they give us some theoretical tools to keep those newly created 'angoms' to stick to the centrifugal force of our society?
b) In the present day society,can we find some conceptual asset for achieving the above objective?
For the past several months I have been trying to understand how our numerical system works.In a most surprising turn of events,the effort to answer the above questions and my ongoing study of the our numerical system got intertwined.
1) When we feed an infant we do so with a sound,'Am'.On a philosophical plane,'Am' should be first line of communication from those endowed with speech to those speechless.Going further,from the philosophical to the mundane.From the heavenly to the earthly.Like they have done with 'Yaoshang',our architects have kept the anatomy of the primordial sound hidden in the process as mundane as feeding an infant.Our architects have done an incredible job.(It would amount to dereliction of my duty if I fail to mention here that our primordial sound 'Am' has a striking similarity with the Sanskrit word,"Aum').
Now,we should assume that 'Am' just acts like all our root alphabets,in that they all produce a unique sound of their own.For example,'Y(a)' produces its own sound and it sits near the origin of a Cartesian co-ordinate--but in two places of the opposite quarters('Sungs') occupying the 0-90 degrees and 270-360 degrees.For the 'Y(a)' to serve any worldly purpose,it should travel outwards from the origin('Su') along the x-axis.There it becomes 'Ya'.(Here,we should hasten to propose that we should call our numerical system as 'Nuya').
Thus traveled along the x-axis,our primordial sound 'Am' becomes 'Ama'--our first numeral.
It is to be noted here I am coming out with a separate post discussing in detail the above logical steps.
2) 'Ani' says 'A' is defined by 'Ni'.
It expresses the following statements:
a) For us earthlings(that is,those residing inside the 0-90 degree quadrant),heavenly or Godly stuff can be detected within our imagination only.
b) Abstraction without imagination is not good.
c) Philosophical treatise should go hand in hand with a robust humane imagination.
3) 'Ahum' says the relation between 'A' and 'M(a)' is defined by 'Hu'.
For our particular context here,we can put it in this way:The relation between the heavenly or Godly stuff and the ones related with our world (that is,of the 0-90 degrees quadrant) is defined by 'Hu'.
So,what is 'Hu'?
At the first instance of hearing the sound 'Hu' meaning 'poison',we immediately get the feeling that it is something to do with 'chemical'.
Going further,'Hui' should be the flesh and blood edition of 'Hu'.'Doggy' and 'chemical'--you must be kidding!But we should not intimidated by this knee-jerk(but natural) reaction.Two things come out:
a) Wagging of a dog's tail is the 180 degree vibration along an axis.Here,it is very intriguing that a 'Hummai' acts in the way as that of a wagging of a dog's tail.
b) Dog is very obedient.It could mean that it,like a chemical process,strictly obeys a set of rules.
So,what now?
We can still re-inforce our argument by studying 'Huigang Thaangba'.
'Huigang Thaangba' annouonces the death of a dog.In it,the leash of a dog is made to pass through a hollowed out bamboo pole.The practical purpose is that the dog cannot come near you if you hold it by the bamboo pole.
Here,we are confronted with an astonishing stuff.We can assume the dog's leash as something 'flexible' and hence, capable of producing vibration.The very act of making it passed though a bamboo pole means it is being prevented from producing vibrations.
Now,'Huignag Thaangba' says that if there is no vibration,there will be no chemical process.
It is astonishing! We have just arrived at 'String Theory'!! We have accomplished this by studying 'Hui' and 'huigang Thaangba'.
How our architects have the knowledge of 'String Theory' in those olden times! It is totally astonishing!!(More astonishing stuff--we arrive at the same conclusion by studying 'E-nga-hari nong-naang').
So,our 'Ahum' says all the stuff of this universe is the same but we are all differentiated by chemical configuration only.
When we reach this stage we need to slow down a little.The reason is that we have just reached the transition point of 'Tillam' and 'Lairam'.
Going further,we are confronted with an important statement:
a) 'Tillam' is always 3 steps ahead of 'Lairam'.
b) We need to understand the concept of 'general vibration'.We will discuss it in 'Mari'.
c) We also need to understand the concept of the vibration of the 'unstable mater'.We will discuss it in 'Ma-nga'.
d) We finally need to understand the concept of the 'vibration represented as a graph on a paper'.We will discuss it in 'Tara'.
Now,let's go to the concepts of 'Tillam' and 'Lairam'.It's better to go straight to an example.
'Pee'(tear) is 'Lairam'.And,the conditions(both inside our eyes and outside of it) that facilitates the emergence of 'Pee' is the 'Tillam'.There should be a seeding stage of the factors encompassing the 'conditions'.Then,the growing-up stage.Finally,the stage where it gains maturity.This is the reason why 'Tillam' is always three steps ahead of 'Lairam'.
So,in our numerical system,one,two and three situate in the doamin of 'Tillam'.So,for us living in 'Lairam'(ie,those of us inside the 0-90 degrees quadrant) are left with only seven numerals.How to solve this this?We can do it by the following steps:
a) 'Lim' is the world of vibrations.So,'mali' or 'mari' is the world of no vibration.
b) 'Ngam' is the world of unstable matters.So.'Ma-nga' is the world of stable matters.
c) 'Lat' is 'La' osvillated.'La' can only be oscillated by abstraction and then, by putting it on a piece of paper.In this sense,'Lat' is the movement of a point,near the origin,outwards the x-axis.So,'Tara' must be the return journey of our point towards the origin.So,in this sense,'Tara' is completion of a cycle or the gaining of maturity.
Now, we manage to produce three extra numerals.These three,together with the remaining seven,should constitute the numeral of our 'Lairam'--the 'Nuya'.I am coming with a full and separate post dealing with the logical steps deployed to arrived at the above points.
We can easily live with the above interpretations of 'Lim/Mari' and 'Lat/Tara'.When we come with 'Ngam/Ma-nga' we are again confronted with astonishing stuffs of our architects.
a) We should start with 'Lemlei Nga'.In our context,'Lem' is the world of negatively charged matters.'Lei'here,is knowledge.So,it says,to understand the world of negatively charged matters,look to 'Nga'(fish).'Nga' has no feet,it leans on the water.So,it symbolizes unstable matter(fissile material).
b) It is common knowledge that heavy water is used to control the unstable character of the fissile material(usually Uranium),just like our 'Lemlei Nga'.
c) Searching for fission equation,we come to this:
C235/92U+1/0n--141/36Ba+92/36Kr+3 1/0n+Q.
This is exactly 5+1,just like our 'Thawai Ma-nga meega thana taruk'.
This is totally astonishing! How our architects,in their ancient time,manage to come to grip with the idea of unstable material and fission!!
4) 'Taruk' says the relation between 'T(a)' and 'K(a)' is defined by 'Lu'.
'Lu' brings us the world of 'L(a)l(a)'.We come to this conclusion by studying the 'Paakhangba Paaphal',where the mouth bites the tail.I am coming with a full and detailed discussion on this in a separate post.
'T(a)',being oscillation,represents an unstable condition.And,'K(a)',a stable one.
It says when we bring a stable matter towards its unstable condition,we will get 'Lal'.As in our common usage, 'Lal' is wealth.So,the 'Lal' in our 'taruk' should mean energy.
So,our 'Taruk' says that we should understand the huge amount of energy kept hidden inside the matters of the universe.
5) 'Talet' is the stylized form of 'Tale' and 'Let'.
'Talet' says the same thing as 'Taruk' but in another style.So,our seventh step is superfluous or redundant.Although,in rhyme with our custom of 'Heiram taret,leiram taret',why is there a superfluous step?
In my mind,its main purpose is to remind us the huge responsibility of handling the tremendous energy obtained by 'Taruk'.It warns that all of the humankind might be wiped out by the energy obtained by 'Taruk'.
7) 'Nipaan' says that the relation between 'Ni' and 'N(a)' is defined by 'Pa'.
Here,we must remind ourselves that the protection provided by 'Pa' to the eyeball represents a complete eco-system.Thus,in our context,'Pa' can be taken to mean an institution.
'Ni' is imagination.Bad imagination is greed."N(a)',here,denotes a root.In our context,it can mean the 'condition of staying grounded to reality'.
So,our 'Nipaan' says that 'greed' should be brought to 'staying grounded to reality condition' with the help of well-established institutions.
6) 'Maapan' says that,in case we pass though 'Nipaan' successfully,we must arrive at an society('here 'Ma',meaning world or society) where we all manage to 'stay grounded' being facilitated by well-established institutions.
Reading all the above points together,we note that three things stand out:
a) All the Holy Books of the world(that includes the Bible,the Koran,the Talmud and the Gita) DO NOT teach their adherents the depth and breadth of the knowledge as laid down in our NUYA.
b) The only problem with our NUYA is that it is not presented to us in a written form.That is understandable in the context that our architects correctly foresee the coming meeting of minds of,and eventual collaboration between,the Puya 'Meitharois' and the library 'meitharois'.Our architects seems to be paranoid of the 'meitharois' of the world.
c) In a practical plane,we need to quickly tabulate all the numerals of all the small population communities living in North East India and along the geographical space encompassing all those from the Chittagong hills upto the border with Yunnan.Such a tabulation will bring forth the common features with our numerals.Equipped with this data,we should examine if our NUYA can serve as the conceptual underpinning of puting all these people in a smoldering cauldron.Here,we should not forget to give emphasis to one,five and six of the numerals.