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Motivation and Creation
by Dharmbir Sharma
What motivates a person to create anything? Most of us are satisfied to view the creation as an end product for use and not concerned about this question. Every creation has its origin as a thought in the mind, which gets transformed into something specific through processes of appropriate nature. Everyone creates something or other but only things with substantial exposure to people in general qualify to be termed as creations. Artists, writers, musicians, architects, to name just a few, are all creators.
Take artists, a painter in particular as an example. The motivation for painting may vary greatly but they can be broadly divided into a few categories. It may be for giving permanence to transient phenomena like a flower or scenery such as a beautiful sunrise or sunset. It may be to give a lasting form to some unfulfilled desire. It may even be to present some abstract and obscure ideas in the form of a picture to tantalize other minds.
The writer - a poet, a novelist, a philosopher or whatever, puts his imaginations, thoughts, and experiences in the form of books. Here again the writer is trying to put in words the inner feelings, dreams and desires, and even personal experiences. A musician wants to play his own composition or someone else's to bring out the talent in the open. An architect has his own ideas of aesthetic sense and symmetry and wants them displayed in the architecture.
In all cases of creativity the basic desire is of self-expression, at least in the beginning. Other factors may come into play later to eventually corrupt this pure motive, but they are not prime movers for the creative action. This urge for self-expression is evident even in nature. A flower blooms in the deep forest with no desire or purpose except being itself. It goes through its life cycle of seed, plant, flower, and back to seed, just because the inherent tendency for expressing itself in different forms.
A bird sings in the wild not for someone else but for itself just to express its own feelings without giving any thought to purpose. In fact everything in nature happens as a way of self-expression. And that is the purest motive for creativity and for fulfillment of life itself.
This brings us to a subtle and abstract point of the relationship between creation and existence. Whatever is created must have existed in some form or other before. Nothing can be created out of nothing. It is easy to comprehend this in the case of human activity when the creation has a name and form. But what about the creativity in the case of nature? One can see that the flower has existed in the plant that in turn has existed in the seed and so on, but what is the self in this case? It is not possible to go into a detailed discussion of this point here. It is sufficient to state that in the ultimate analysis consciousness is the primordial existence and everything in the universe is its expression in some form or other.
About the Author
D. R. Sharma is a retired professor with electrical engineering and physics background. He maintains a website cosmosebooks.com devoted mainly to philosophy, science, and self-development. Apart from academic activities he has a down-to-earth interest in helping poor and suffering people and runs small projects in rural India.
NVRRA HO Model Railroad Club Layout in Bolton MA 4/26/03
NASHUA VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION Club layout in Bolton MA 4/26/03.
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