This is an information saturated world where science, philosophy, religion, spirituality, myths and other schools of thought have poured a so called ‘truthful reason’ into every vacant and unexplored gap that ever existed. It’s at conquering these voids through our expansive knowledge, that we progress and generate a luxuriously cushioned lifestyle. Knowingly and unknowingly, we have accustomed our lives and existence in close association with these material conditions.

The staggering progress that we have achieved today in all spheres is a result of tremendous hard work and investment of time and knowledge from our part that has left us ‘little’ for our own self. Be it jammed day schedules, or a race for a social jump, we return to a screeching silence of silent introspection when a thought seems uncommunicated, a wish seems unfulfilled, an effort goes unrecognized and an emotion uncared for. This sense of lapse of communication mirrors the craters that perforates our sense of ‘being in completeness’ to ‘beings in incompleteness.’ This incompleteness suspends itself when our mind and body engage in daily chores of life and stimulates a resentful regression when we confront a professional or a personal lapse. The alternative higher ideologies like spirituality and religion offer holistic matter and content to overcome this regression, nausea, and anxiety, we gravitate to find refuge in pursuit of those very routine that created these voids.

The desire to conquer and to emerge as winners not only forges us to obtain infinite within our mortality, but feeds itself on every new possession that we acquire. We pamper our social ego and divert it to spirituality after the point where we see ourselves as unsatisfied shallow beings who are enslaved by our own desires. It also dawns a realization of incompleteness that is veiled under the façade of material façade of being socially complete and competent. This unsatisfied streak in us then shifts to satisfy itself through an alternative spiritual food and overcome the hysteria that our mundane life provides. It’s at such void that a social existence requires a secured backbone and connecting with God seems a long journey that our existence appears as an undesired want, which is centered around an undefined centre.In such ironic contrasts, do we live for a spiritual pre-lapsarian life to connect with the creator, or a material life that is too hollow to cater to the grave ‘reason of existence,’ or is it a perennial void that resides within us that simply needs a mirror to reflect and disperse. The question remains unanswered: is it ‘we’ who want or the ‘want’ that wants us.

Diksha Bajaj is a Graduate in English literature (Kirorimal College, University of Delhi). An artist and an avid writer interested in music (classical along with other forms) and reading, the painting (the picture) below Diksha’s photo is made by her and captures the essence of this article.

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