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The two paths

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
While the animal has only one road before him, the road that is right in front, determining his
choices driven by the senses and instinct. But man has a subjective side to his existence, an inner
road that can lead him deep within the inmost penetralia of his existence. This article touches
upon the two roads before man with the possible implications of each.

found that cannot be further broken. That
is declared as the basic building-block of
everything.

Next one tries to bring together the pieces that
the mind and senses have created, observe
their mutual interactions and thereby builds
a working theory of everything. But by the
time this stage is reached one has moved far,
often very far from the field of the senses
from where one had started. One enters a
world that is barely observable even with
The outer path sophisticated instruments. Its presence can
be discerned through mathematics, inferred
There are two paths that humanity has pursued indirectly through reason, confirmed by its
in its relentless search for progress and ability to predict events based on theories.
seeking for Truth. One is outward, wherein This is the way that science, especially material
one studies all that can be perceived through science has followed. This works quite well
the senses and analysed objectively. One thus with physical things, even though several
categorises the world into different groups gaps begin to appear there, inexplicable
based on common elements. Then they are aspects and anomalous observations that defy
further subdivided until the smallest unit is and challenge the theory begin to creep in.

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