THE OTHER.

वह दूसरा!

और,

The Otherness.

जड-चेतन -

The "other" is someone, conscious or not so conscious, such a thing that responds, reacts or resists.

The individual is ever so such a 'self'. It is undeniably true a conscious one, who knows all else but not the oneself and it neither it is aware of this purely simple and plain truth. Everything is known to one, without an effort - voluntarily and / or consciously or un-consciously by / to this 'self'. Whatever, all that responds, reacts or resists to 'self ' is the other. The 'self' is ever so assumed, believed and referred to as "I", but the 'other' either as ''You", "He", " She" "this" or "that". There is an intermediate state also,the one that is referred collectivrly to in terms of plural as 

"We" and "You", "They", "These" or "Those".

The "other" may either be sentient or insentient, a conscious one like the "I", or purely not so conscious, though may neither be called un-conscious. Though not sentient, ir still responds, reacts and reacts in its own way, following strictly in accordance with the Laws discovered by the Science and the Scientists.

The question is still unanswered and the answer has to be found out till date, till today. Exactly Who or What ordained those Laws as are discovered by Science and / or the Scientists?

Obviously, is not there such an Agent, a  Principle, an Intelligent / Intelligence Principle that is yet to be discovered by Science / Scientists of date?

Could we think That Intelligent Principle / Intelligence is unconscious, insentient "other"; such one so as to be referred to as "this", "that", it", "these" or "those"?

Could it be surmised that all notions / pronouns such as "I", "You", "He", "She", "This" and "That" repeatedly arise and appear and subsequently disappear from and within that Immutable Intelligence / Intelligent Principle?

Could it be denied / refuted that prior to this Intelligence Principle, there exists a Principle that is This Timeless Reality, where-in and where-from arise, appear and subsequently disappear all this the whole phenomenal existence which is referred to as "World"?

विवेक चूडामणि 

Through the following stanza 125 questions and points out to this question in this verse:

अस्ति कश्चित् स्वयं नित्यं अहं-प्रत्ययलम्बनः।

अवस्थात्रय साक्षी सन् पञ्चकोशविलक्षणः॥१२५॥

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