Diary: People have a working vocabulary of 3 dozen words

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The world is made of language: our conceptual apparatus is what enables us to experience reality.
People who have a working vocabulary of 3 dozen words will probably not have the depth of experience of a poet or someone who engages the act of expression in their daily lives. Rather, they will probably be doomed to relating their experiences through shared cultural forms such as television shows, or inane news bytes.
Emotions cannot be expressed and shared (and, incidentally, may not be fully experienced) if we do not have the vocabulary for it.
It is erroneous to think of Vishnu as a person. Rama is a person; Vishnu is not. Krishna is a person; Vishnu is not. Vishnu is the name of energy, power. But there is a reason for the mistake of taking him to be a person. Every insight in the past was expressed in poetry, and poetry even turns energy into a person. Out of necessity it had to do so; we could not have expressed it otherwise. But then this way of expression resulted in creating any number of riddles in mythology.