On the Nature of Doubt

What is Doubt ?

Is it a question that can be answered with certainty ? Can one ever be sure that he has known the nature of doubt ? Does anyone know what all his doubts are ?

Normally Doubt is used interchangeably with umcertainity or suspicion. Doubt is the opposite of trust. Doubt is a prelude to certainty. If truth is light, and untruth is dark, then doubt is the penumbra, the dawn.

Whereever there is a question, there is an enquiry. That is the nature of the human mind. The question creates a doubt. Or, is it the doubt creates the question ? May be both arise simultaneously ? No, No. Doubt is the state of mind and question is the vocalisation of that state of mind.

Oh why, why shall we enquire into the nature of doubt ?Becuase Certainty is the desired state of mind. When the question arises, immediately also arises the question - is the question answerable ? Does it have an answer ? If it does have an answer, can any human find it ? Will it happen in my lifetime ? If it happens, will I get to know the answer ? Could I be the one, the first one, to get at the answer ?



Are there questions, which even when answered, remain unanswered ?

First Steps

Hello World !

This is the first step - I try to pour out my doubts to the anonymous world. It seems better to publish than perish. My introduction to a blog in any manner came from a great blogger - Lalita who is now larking somewhere else altogether. So I begin with a thanks to her.



So, what are the doubts which I shall write about ? My brain is so crowded with doubts jostling each other. So really I doubt if I know anything ?


I am currently reading The Universe in a Nut Shell by Stephen Hawking, and I could recommend to all those who tried the A Brief History of Time and failed. Much more for the lay-person this one. And well, when I am reading the part about Feynmann and the multiple histories - I think : is this similar to our Sambhavami Yuge Yuge ? Hunh ?

Let the first one be short, I shall be back.