Tarka - Logic

As a kid I read the story of Shyamantaka Mani in Amarchithra Katha story books. That meant only a story then


Some stories don't leave us. Over the years, when I was exploring for earliest evidences of logical thinking- the story reverted in mind. The Lord Krishna goes to the route of an incidence to find out the truth -over an allegation of assassination against Him.

-The Prince goes for hunting
-Sign of fight between Prince & Lion
-Lions foot marks
-Dead Lion
-Sign of fight
-Bear's footmark
-Tracing the Bear
-Defeat the bear
-Recover the Gem

The detectives & lawyers do this often. Because they are not present in crime scene. The logical thinking leads to the nearest of truth.

Now look at the logic sequencing done by the Lord himself;
-Prince & Gem are missing
-Gem was last seen with Prince
-Trace the Prince->Trace the Gem
-Prince gone for hunting
-Fight scene --> no footmark of Prince returning--So Prince is probably dead
-Lion's footmark seen
-Lion's dead--> So Lion is killed--> by whom? find a clue-
-Bear's footmark in the vicinity
-Trace the bear ->trace the GEM


While synthesizing each instance, first identify number of probabilities then select the most logical one. Eliminate the rest. Synthesize sequences again..identify number of probabilities...then select..eliminate..

Logical synthesizing is effective only so long as we are able to arrive every possible occurence and not otherwise. It can be practiced. Now take a process and build all possible logical sequences around it...Well...playing a game of chess is better..!