Friday, March 19, 2010

Man, as I Think

Man is a social creature . For his survival he is bound to live with and take the help of others. Herein lies the crux of the problems.One can never be social and at the same time have the absolutely true self. In other words man is bound to live in this false self. Out of this his survial is impossible. We first get the flashes of reality, or the real self, the real man whenever we see frustration, disaster, death, espcially the activities or events that carry us away from this society. But as the time passes we are busy with everyday world, in the world of give and take we become away from reality whenever we have the real self we are isolated alone, an outsider in this world. We cannot ommunicate then with this world wearin a false selves because only the real selves can communicate with each other, neither the real and false nor the false and false. Wearing or having the real self in this world means becomming a sadhu, sanyasi or a mad person. Because they are unaware of the world outside. Abnormal people , in fact, are more in touch with relality in the way and that is why they become unfit for the society.
We live in this society since we are born, rather it is essential for our being in this world. Right from the very begining of our stay on this earth we learn the manners of living in this society; rules we are to follow for being a gentleman. If we disobey these the society looks at us as we were very mean and lowly persons. People(society) do so because their parents and parents' parents did the same with them. By imposing rules , norms, codes of conduct and doing cruelty on their children they avenge themselves. This rule generalized, man imposes himself on the other man all the times.
The man with the real self has the true identity but if he is to survive he will have to lose his real self and so the true identity. So this loss of identity problem can be turned into a gain only when the man is real . So living in society , lack of ommunication, loss of identity, sel-crisis, all are interrelated. The man who faces the abovementioned problems is the person who gets the flashes of reality due to disillusionment.

Ways , to get rid of these problems:

1. keeping away from the world and live an unknown life and search the truth,.i.e., leaving the society yet surviving. Such a man will not intercourse with this world. By way of meditation, he is all the time aware of reality. He has no requirements except food. About such people very little is known as they don't want to appear before any other human being. Whether they even eat or not is not known. Perhaps such people require only the minimum for their subsistence.(sadhus , sanyasi, naga etc.)
2. Enjoy the world to the fullest so that all money, vigour, energy is spent and we become aware of reality. This will also lead to realization of the true self. If all coarser pleasures of man are spent, i.e., he has spent all his vigour and energy, he will be aware of what his life really is. Enjoy all the material physical pleasures of this world up to the maximum point, feel their insignificance. Unless one is not filled with physical and material pleasures up to the neck he wont vomit these.(Rajneesh)
3. Knowing the problems and causes yet living in this world maintaining a balance between the real and the false. (absurdists, Geeta, Kabir, upnishads etc.)
4. Live in the world having some belief and spending all energy constantly establishing and moving ever for the realization of that belief (Vivekanand, Ramkrishna Paramhans, Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo, Vinoba Bhave, Lincoln)
5.Suicide: putting an end to life thinking that death is the only solution to all the complextities of life.
Most of the world is heading towards realization throuh 2 but slowly and steadly not swifly. Rajneesh was a failure through 2.
Retrogression form 1,2,3,4 is possible , i.e., coming back to falsity from reality.

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