The World is Our Idea, the Idea is Our World

They say, the world is our idea. That is to say that it is a construct of our sensations and perceptions, and memory as well. This is the subjective view of the objective world. The world exists objectively on its own and subjectively as well, nothing comes into fray. But in absence of our perceptions and sensations, does it manifest simply because of its presence and existence? Its being to becoming is rather conditional, conditional in the sense that certain happenings and events in its very existence happen to be the brainwork of our perceptions and sensations. Otherwise, it remains dead as dodo in its very existence. Without our perceptions and cognitive faculty the world exists in way that it does not exist. This is like being-in-itself.

Our mind, on the other hand, remains as usual with or without the pre-existence of the world, remains active and sensitive as ever in our spatio-temporal world, 'more ghostly than a ghost'. But is that really so? If there is no world or no world of physical objects, can our mind exist at all? How will it exist without the world being perceived by it, without anything for its food for reflection? And our mind too cannot survive without its reflective food. This heavenly 'manna' is quintessential for its existence. As if, the world is our mind's one and only 'fodder' and our mind its one and only 'cannon' to burn the Promethean fire of knowledge. This 'canonical' message is very important in establishing the embedded relationship between the world and mind or for that matter the mind.