To a jaundiced eye, the world appears yellow.
To a Marxist eye, the world is full of class struggles.
To a Missionary eye, the world is divided into the faithful & the ignorant non-believers who need to be saved.
To a feminist eye, the world is full of patriarchal oppression.
To a Freudian, the world is full of hallucinatory psychoanalysis.
For a post-modernist, all knowledge is relative & deconstruction provides meaning.
Reminded of Adi Sankara's rope & snake analogy. In the darkness, stepping on a rope, one mistakes it to be a snake. In the light, it is seen as what it actually is, a rope. The rope always remained a rope & never changed its characteristic; it is in darkness that one mistook it to be a snake.
When Rama famously utters: "like a diseased eye looking at light" in the Valmiki Ramayana, when a diseased eye hurts looking at light, is it the problem of the eye or of the light?
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