The Duality of Imagination and Reality

Have you ever thought what is the difference between an imaginary space and a real space? The former is a public domain, whereas the latter is a private one.

But if the imaginary space is confined very much in seclusion and it is isolated from the reality, it loses its power and vitality.

In order to grow its power and transforms into reality, it must be shared, so as to understand the depth and significance of your imagination. Though imagination is entirely your own, but to make it meaningful, you have to publicize the same.

There are two sides of the imagination, one is positive and the other one is negative. The positive side strengthens your mind power unless it is colluding with whims and fancies. Further, this positive side of imagination must be translated into reality through action. Any imagination without action is like a vacuum or a hollow dream. Action only brings the desired result evolved from your positive power of imagination. Otherwise, your imagination may be very bright, encouraging, forceful and full of hopes, but fruition will not be achieved unless the meaningful and purposeful transformation takes place to convert the imagination into reality.

Action without imagination is a fallacy and imagination without action is like an empty basket.

At night, you chalk out many plans, exercising your imaginary power and during the next day morning, if there is no action plan, then the imaginations will be like a torn foliage from a tall tree.

Further, if the imagination is hard to achieve, the reality will be like a dark cloud and in that case the life will become complicated. When imagination transcends your limit of reality,your actions will be more prone to meaningless and direction will not yield results as envisaged by you. You will be like a radar-less and clueless.  

So, the corresponding reality would also be complicated.

If you focus on the theory of physics and mathematics, you will find both real and imaginary spaces. You may argue to remain in the imaginary space, just not to confront with the real space. But you can transform from one space to another one.

As per French mathematician Joseph Fourier, the above syndrome is known as Fourier transform. Using the said principle, you can transform imagination to reality through your knowledge base.

As per Gita, knowledge and the power of knowledge and inherent strength of knowledge induce your mind power to initiate action for any meaningful imagination when you concentrate all your attention on the principle of “doing only.” In that case, the transformation of imagination to reality is possible.

We all know that knowledge is a great stimulant and a purifier. Any action which comes out from the purity of your heart and mind will be definitely having a lasting impact.

Now, whatever dream you have for your life or you dream every night, of course consciously, education is only the binding factor of your dreams and imagination.

The most of the acclaimed personalities of this world have fulfilled their dreams with education. This education and depth of the knowledge along with the educations are the custodians of what goes into society. Education has two factors: values and profession. No one can ignore or doubt of the values and benefits of education. If you are able to devour the values,  out of your education, benefits would automatically accrue.

However, in today’s society, most of us are invaded more with the benefits rather than the values.

Obviously, people will be more tuned to the worldlings and they are not supposed to be saints and so they will be nurturing their desire for more and more benefits, but through the imagination and imaginary power, one has to balance between these two. The qualitative education plays a very vital role to identify the balancing act between the benefits and values to lead a quality life.

Imagination is a precursor of a good scientific research. If you exploit your power of imagination to a higher degree, your experiment in any field, whether to create a painting, compose a music, write a poetry or simply to focus on a subject of problem solving in your daily life, will be very successful.

Of course, this imagination must be supported by your analytical and computational skills. We all know that how Newton had exercised this power of imagination over the falling apple and discover the famous law of gravitation. Our imagination power leads us to innovate, introduce and incite to take action and this in turn leads to new imagination.

In a nutshell, both spaces real and imaginary are complementary to each other and both are needed for the progress and growth of mind and society.