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by the screen. In a similar fashion, the illusory cognition of our body through the senses and the mind prevents us from knowing the reality of our being in its true characteristic.
We live in the shadow of stunted knowledge :
This is the story of distortion/illusion created by our narrow-ranged sensory system. There is yet another way our knowledge gained through cognitive senses suffers stunting/ distortion. All the information gathered from our sensors does not reach our mind. Normally, we consider our senses as windows for knowing the world around us, but this viewpoint, though correct partially, does not amount to complete truth. Because, on the whole, the main function of our nervous system including the sense-organs, seems to be that of filtering out the inflow of unnecessary information - a kind of self-imposed censorship.
Just as the editor of a newspaper, in his office, extracts useful news according to the policy of his paper from the continuously pouring inflow of information from its reporters posted worldwide as well as from other news agencies via telegraph, telephone, telex or fax so our sensors and nervous system filter out unnecessary information from outside world and project on our conscious level only a limited portion of it selected as per the dictates received from the mind. In accordance with our upbringing, profession, age, prejudices, likes, dislikes, and inborn tendencies carried over from earlier incarnations, our mind compartmentalises what is 'useful and what is 'useless'; based on this division, the nervous system and sense-organs carry on further functioning. If all the information available to us at any given moment is allowed to rush into our consciousness, we would not be able to cope with it and life would become difficult - we would not be left free to be alerted of any impending dangers in time e.g. an onrushing vehicle or a suddenly falling tree etc. Hence,
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