During the 1999 cricket world cup, which was being organised in England, Scotland and Ireland, I remember a very interesting and amusing incident.
It was a match between India and another team which I don't recollect.
During the most part of the tournament, the stadia used to be flocked with white coloured local birds, called gulls.
During the match, there were two commentaries being broadcast. One of them was from Indian commentators and the other direct from the stadium itself.
As we watched the match, we could listen mostly to the Indian commentators, but could hear the commentary from the stadium as well.
It was Sachin Tendulkar who was batting. The stadium was fully occupied with Indian team fans. The ground incidentally was also thickly dotted with the white coloured local birds gulls.
As Sachin hit a boundary, the ball hit a gull just before crossing the boundary line. The ball with its full momentum smashed the life out of the gull. It died immediately on the spot.
The ground boy came running into the ground and picked up the dead bird.
It was Navjyot Singh Siddhu who was giving the Indian commentary. He commented:
"What a wonderful shot by Sachin. It is not only a four, but it got a prize for Sachin - the bird. I am sure the Indian team will serve it for dinner as a good barbeque."
I was also faintly listening to the commentary direct from the stadium. The commentator commented:
"What a wonderful stroke by Sachin. It's crossed the boundary line... and it's four…
Oh. Something has happened there. The ball has hit the gull near the boundary line. Oh. The poor bird is badly hit…."
It was the same event. But responses were different from two different people.
Such incidents are common around us in day to day life. We call them different perspectives. In fact most of the conflicts on the earth happen because of different perspective of common issues.
Why do we have different perspectives?
This can be explained by the SAANKHYA PHILOSOPHY of Kapila Muni.
It was he who discovered that the mind has three different dimensions or gunas.
We call them TRIGUNA or the three Gunas, namely
Sat
Rajas
Tamas.
Everyone's mind has these dimensions.
The proportion of each of them keep varying depending upon various factors
like:
Food we take
The nadi which is active at the time
The memories stored in the mind (just like the Google algorithm)
Depending upon which Guna is dominant that time, it will compel the five senses to perceive an event in a particular way.
This phenomenon we can call "REVERSE PERCEPTION".
So this revelation can help us to understand that we can control the way we perceive the outside, if we can control the TRIGUNA at the very moment.