ODA 101 – Laws, and Laws
Asked the disciple:
“So, all things in Nature
happen, as per Natural Laws?
“No”, said Oda,
“They do not.
“Citizenslive”,
continued Oda,
“as per the laws of their land.
And courts judge,
as per those same laws.
“But laws arebroken”,
concluded Oda,
“Laws are ordained
by the powerful human beings, which other
less powerful ones, sometimes
endeavour to work, in contravention of.”
“But”, the confused disciple
blabbered: “Aren’t the laws of Nature,
similarly ordained by Nature?”
“Not really”, clarified Oda,
“Everything, including humans
is Nature. And everything in Nature
works as per Nature. A contravention
is notpossible.”
Oh, Oda,
now we understand, what you are telling
your disciple: Human laws
and Nature
are categoriesapart –
laws are those that can be broken;
Nature’s working, is always natural –
no contravention is possible,
no matter how much
it seemsto be so.
Thus, Nature’s “laws” are not mere
laws. They are
the Reality,
the Truth,
the Nature.
That, I do not understand
what isnatural, in what situation
is a testimony to my ignorance;
and the seeming contravention
of the Natural
is onlythe failure
of mydogma!
And my dogma
any dogma
can bea law; a law,
not the Reality.
Not the Truth.
Not the Nature.
We mustn’t term them laws:
the Realities of Nature;
for then, we begin to believe
that like the laws of the humans,
the Nature’s “laws”
are also “made”
and canthus be “broken”.
And Nature, thus
can be at par
or inferior
to our dogmas,
springing out of our
infinitesimally partial knowledge,
and humungous ignorance.
-
owais
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This is first being published here. A note on this poem below...
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This poem is about how we get confused between Natural 'laws', and human laws: Human laws are conventions that we have accepted as supportive of quality in our lives, while Natural 'laws' are actually the way Nature works. The fundamental difference is that human laws can be flouted by some, or even all of us. However, Nature, or Reality works the way it does: the Sun never rises in the West, and when it will, it will do so perfectly naturally. Nothing and no one can ever countermand the Natural 'laws', quite irrespective of the quantum of ignorance we have of those ‘laws’.
Even the most uncertainty promoting principles of human knowledge, those of quantum mechanics primarily talk of the uncertainty merely in observation / knowledge. There is no way it can be known for certain that everything is uncertain at quantum levels! In fact, if things actually do function at random, then quite logically ours cannot be the only Universe, and by that token Reality is only an illusion! What's worse, only an illusion out of infinite illusions!!
It can therefore safely be said that Natural laws cannot be broken; not merely that we have never observed a natural law having been broken. Thus, to call both kinds of 'laws' as laws is extreme idiocy. It is this idiocy that has given sellers of various dogmas, especially the religious ones, a legitimacy which they can neither have, nor deserve.
This poem, which I have just written today, rues this blunder of ours.
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