This is actually a reply to Prof. Mamata's article on measurement of soft skills. It is about spirituality, of course as is every human endeavour and interaction.

A MEASURE OF SOFT SKILLS

Anything to do with the human situation is to do with spirituality- ‘soft’ and subtle.. Its essence is basically that. And any judgment of it is essentially an abstraction- an opinion. An abstraction is neither definable nor quantifiable.
To do this, we have to relate it to an absolute identity, and select criteria, relative to which we can then define and quantify.
It is a relativity-based definition. We have to ‘fix’ on something to define other things and we have to fix on other things to define something.
We cannot define ‘good’ without considering its polaric opposite- ‘bad’, and the limitless scale of definitions that exist between them.
To get a ‘fix’ on something we have to ‘fix’ something else. And the definition is valid in the Now only.
Because Time itself is nothing but an abstraction.
Everything is in a flux in the space- time continuum.
Nothing is really definable.
It is the core of this duality- based universe.
Really, one can never put one’s finger on the nub of a situation and say, “ I have it.” That would be tantamount to saying, “ I have seen God. I am God.”
Be aware but do not attempt to define.
Be aware but do not attempt to judge.
Enjoy but do not attempt to explain.
Throughout the ages mankind has always set about trying to explain his individual universe- bringing it to some sense of order by defining and quantifying objects. One’s sense of order can never be another’s. This creation of some order and believing in it can be dangerous. We run the risk of imposing it on others.
Whenever we feel this imposition, it is a guarantee that it is someone else’s sense of order. Imposition is what creates strife. Freedom from it gives one the choice to create one’s own sense of order.
If we seek to understand these things with the prevalent consciousness, we will assume chaos and no worldly order of things and events, no universal law, but whose law? Yours? Mine? Theirs? There will be NO chaos because then individual consciousness will prevail over collective consciousness.
We see Nature’s law move forward fluently and smoothly even in the face of man- made devastation. Everything in nature flexes, bends, weaves, spirals, swivels, turns, pirouettes, dances, sways, stands firm, stands tall, deforms, flowers, withers, reproduces, and myriad other things in multifarious, subtle ways. An apparently immutable law holds this beautiful chaos together. This immutable law governs man also.
Everything in the universe, from an insignificant grain of sand, a sub-atomic particle to the giants orbiting the cosmos, is inter-related and intertwined around this immutable law. All are parts of a Whole. A tiny movement of one causes ripples all over and everything flexes to adjust to that original movement. This is going on through eternity.
These orchestrated movements are the stuff of Life.