

By Santosh Jha

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Copyright 2013 Santosh Jha

(Revised 2017)

Smashwords Edition

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Table of Contents

Lets Us Talk Like Friends: Welcome Note

Core Accord In Peripheral Discord

Body As Theatre, Not As Protagonist

We As 'Generic' And 'Specific' Subject

New Thinking On 3Cs

Problem Of Judging Those, Who Judge Us

Dualism Of Love And Problems It Engenders

Conflicts Of Different Layers Of Consciousnesses

Dualism Of Love And Higher Consciousness

A Mega Facility and the Chief Trouble Maker

Why Problem-Solver Turns Mega Problem Itself

Mechanism Of The Layers Of Consciousnesses

Modern Milieu and a 'Self' In Constant Flux

The Master 'I' As Summation Of Different 'Is'

Archetypal Genius v/s New Genius Problem Solver

Assimilative And Integrative Decision-Making

'Unlearning' Is Greater Challenge Than 'Learning

Bare-Basics Of Cultural Troubles Of Gender-Divide

Challenge To Accept Objective Mind Consciousness

Commonality Of Ideas on Objectivity

Summary

Accept My Gratitude

About The Author

Other Titles By The Author

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Thrilled to have you with me!

I FEEL TRULY HAPPY to tell you that more than a book, it is like friends chatting up, sharing whatever we can together to enhance the wellness space.

It is my humble belief that any person, in whatever state of consciousness and life positioning, is in some special ways, better than a wisdom-book, for the purpose of life & living learning. I must tell you, I have learnt and more importantly, unlearnt, primarily from people. Books somehow are people-matter in text-format.

I am sure; you too have realized that the world we live is what it is, neither good nor bad. It is somehow neutral and objective. It is people, who are the 'Theatre' of all troubles as well as happiness. It is in our subjective consciousness that we accept something as trouble and others as happiness.

It is such an amazing contrast; we all know and accept that human mind is the most capable and instinctively galvanized mechanism in the entire universe to solve problems. Be it from the standpoint of evolution or God's design, it is very clear to us that humanity has succeeded and excelled on Earth because of its brilliant problem-solving skills. Still, everywhere humanity is in troubles.

We shall talk about the problems and their easy solutions. However, first, we have to come down to one common premise, which shall help us is the fruition of the issue at hand – Artistry Of Problem Solution.

There has to be a humble admittance – Any word, however well meant and well spelt, is a possible suspect of 'misrepresentation'. There is a simple reason. Do you remember when your flight is about to land, the pilot aborts the landing, jolting your peace, just because something as insignificant as a 'stray dog' happens to be on the runway?

You already know, how similar is the fate of human words, which we all accept as the best and worthy carriers of human 'intentions'. This airplane of human words, carrying good and noble intentions need to make a good, smooth and safe landing on the runway of another human's mind and consciousness, which again is worthy and hugely able.

Still, the good intentioned words sometimes fail to land on the mind of others, as there is some 'insignificant', yet potentially fatal obstacle standing midway the runway!

It is believed, "If the hypothesis is right, the idea is accepted as right". If two people have an assimilative and integrative attitude, one can easily see that root trouble is in subjectivity of the hypotheses. This helps in resolution of conflict of ideas.

Friendship is one positioning, where assimilation and integration about divergent hypotheses has larger accommodative space. A seed is more objectively accommodative in space than a grown up tree. Friendship is seed positioning. That is why, at the very start, I very affectionately request you to be my friend and accept this all as one long conversation between friends. Kindly, accept this not as a book but a 'confabulation' between friends. This, I am confident, shall engender smoothness of navigation and fruition of the entire exercise.

With all humility and sincerity at my behest, I wish to tell you that it needs to be said, there is only one person on the earth, who can say that he has understood. Otherwise, this domain is reserved for a metaphor called God. This is not available for humans.

It is also a heart-felt realization that our very worthy ancestors; who had the intelligence and courage to face the worst, life made them to, so that we inherit a better beautiful world; have already said almost all good things. What I can do is present them in new set of words with novelty of references.

The only justification of me telling them is that all goodness and wellness ideas and words need to be repeated and retold, to add to their all-pervasiveness.

At my age, I can say with innocence that getting old is such a beautiful and satisfying experience. It makes the 'self' accept the 'utility and fruition' of holistic, assimilative and integrative consciousness. Getting old has probably pushed 'me' close to the 'eligibility' of perhaps beginning to understand as what essentially is there to be understood!

I chat up with you to share with you whatever is part of my consciousness. All wisdoms say, human is designed to live in state of 'flux', a state of instinctive semi consciousness. To jolt oneself out of this, one must challenge itself; something humanity has done since millions of years. What stays with you is what sinks in. Wisdom is what we internalize.

I share with you whatever I have internalized in my life.

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At The Very Outset

SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS IS not a big task. If you have a problem, you already know it that solution is somewhere 'inherent and embedded' in the problem itself. The milieu around us presents some factors in an 'arrangement', which stand in our disadvantage, at a particular stage of our life positioning and we call the outcome of such an arrangement as a 'problem'.

Often, solution presents itself as some 'alternative' arrangement or placement of the same factors in such a way that they turn advantageous for us, hence qualifying as a 'solution'.

In most cases, especially the modern day problems we face, the artistry of arriving at solutions is not in 'creating' or generating something externally but in 'rearranging' and 'repositioning' the already present factors and elements in some alternative ways. This repositioning is required primarily in cognitive domain – that is, the way we look at a reality of situations or perceive it as.

That is why, as you already know it, we need little 'action' but loads of calm and objective 'reception' in analyzing the 'factors' that essentially constitute a problem. The 'genesis' of solutions is in total and perfect reception of the 'genetics' of the problems.

The core trouble is, modern day problems are so 'dressed up'; partly by our complex environment and partly by our own perspectives that we fail to see the 'naked' reality of the nature of problems. We can see them clearly, if we 'undress' them.

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Core Accord In Peripheral Discord

WE HAVE A VERY SIMPLE example of this in our daily lives, which you must already have noticed. Our body needs Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fat and Minerals (CPFM). This is common needs of all creatures.

However, we all know; every single human being has different tastes and choices of this common CPFM plate. This happens because; individual choices/tastes/preferences depend on variegated socio-cultural-economic-psychological factors, which are dissimilar for different people and in diverse socio-cultural milieus. They also keep changing with time.

Even among twins, who live in same socio-cultural and physical environment, there shall be difference of individual tastes and food preference.

There can be two people in close intimacy, one wanting to have pasta and another would insist on noodles, as he or she hates pasta. They can fight over their choices and may not agree to have a common plate. However, at the core, what both want to have is 'carbohydrates'. The fight is very largely culturally 'arranged'. Their disagreement, causing problem is peripheral, even when they are in 'agreement' at the core.

It is so simple. Love is the core requirement of every human being, like CPFM. Love is life's CPFM. So, when we fall in Love, we think, we are on a common ground, which we are; still, we are NOT! The need for love is instinctive and common but its expression is culturally influenced, hence the differences.

Different people shall have diverse and often competing choices/tastes/preferences of Love-Needs. It is only natural because, the cultural mind, shall at times, prevail on the decision-making and choice making, over our intuitive mind, which initially led us to fall in Love.

If two persons in love; understand and accept that love is their core-need and they are 'one' in it, there shall be larger mutuality. They shall understand and accept that the cultural differences of choices/tastes/preferences are peripheral and can be 'unified' in long run, if both sit down in calm receptive mode and talk with innocence and compassion.

The unity and agreement of core love, shall in time grow and if for this somehow 'period of transition', the two people in love continue to build on the intimacy, this core of love shall expand to engulf and usurp the entire peripheral territory of cultural differences and disagreements.

Often, in our daily lives, we are in drifting 'reactive-mode' of consciousness. This is our mechanism; we have been designed this way for survival. This mode is for quick-fire response of the stimulus in the ambient environment for survival-success. Tougher life shall be, more reactive we become. This is one 'trap' situation, which we need to understand.

However, in the short time available for 'reactive-mode' mechanism of decision-making, we cannot ideally look at the picture and situation in entirety. This short time frame can facilitate only peripheral view of a situation.

For holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective of any problem, we need leisure and calm mind to switch over to the 'receptive-mode', where problems can be reviewed in basics and to the core.

Let us just not debate whether we are a product of God's design or evolution. We just have to focus on what our mechanism is. 'What' it is; helps far more than knowing, 'who' made it.

We now have the knowledge and facility to understand what is the mechanism, which made us the most successful living being on the Earth, and probably in the entire universe? We just have to understand, why we are the most intelligent mechanism in solving problems.

In fact, the answer is very simple and we all know this. Almost all complex living organisms have mechanism for instinctive 'reactive-mode' consciousness. More developed and higher living creatures too have very limited 'receptive-mode' consciousness. However, humans have this mind structures for receptive-mode very well developed and structured. This is our definitive edge over all other living being.

We have the mechanism, which makes us aware of our 'subjectivity', the 'Me' factor. We are endowed with the power of imagination. This is very subjective. We can hold back a reaction; we can ride over our instinctive response, wait and assign it to our brilliant facility of leisurely reflections.

It is this 'receptive-mode' consciousness, which makes us the champions of the universe, the master crafts-persons, designed and evolved to solve even the most complex problems.

Just look around and see the world, where humanity has created mega facilities and structures of all possible suitability for our wellness. They are the symbols of individual's potential as the most brilliant problem solver.

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Body As Theatre, Not As Protagonist

LONG AGO, SPIRITUALITY said, 'everything is within you and what act as external inputs; for actionable behavior, is just the reflection or imagery of your internality'.

Somehow, the new science also confirms the same.

The big issue, which comes as a huge opportunity as well as challenge for all of us; the thinking men and women, is to accept and understand this 'mechanism' of human body-brain structures.

The biggest advantage of humanity, over all other species, is essentially two elements of consciousness. They are – Subjective Feeling and Faculty of Imagination, as these two elements are most pronounced and effective in humans. This is an outcome of our more complex brain states, which we can say as the superior one over all other creatures.

Given this hypothesis, which still needs larger and objective confirmation for finality of wisdom, the thinking men and women have a brilliant agenda at hand. It is – This subjectivity and imagination tool makes our body a brilliantly mystical 'Theatre' of potential and possibilities. This theatre however, is suggested to be taken just as a 'medium', not as the 'protagonist'.

We all feel this, at least at times, if not always that the body as theatre of life is just a medium, not the protagonist. It means there is some energy, which works as the 'protagonist'.

Take this metaphor of theatre in its entirety. A theatre is where a play is enacted or takes place, but the act, the play has its 'script' emanating from an 'environment', which may be endemic or exotic – local or universal.

Similarly, the body, as a theatre, plays acts, which has a 'script' to it and this script may be written, in our sub-conscious minds, with either very localized 'factors and actors' from its ambient milieu or with universal and exotic milieu.

This metaphor opens up the gate of potential and possibilities for us. We all need to have diversity and versatility of milieus, in which our body works. This shall in turn ensure; the scripts of the acts and plays our body-mind mechanism houses as a theatre, are also diverse and versatile, enthralling 'audiences' and adding 'value' to the milieu in turn.

This entire situation creates a very simple 'requirement', for excellence of our collective as well as individual wellness. That is; all thinking men and women need to transcend the boundaries of our body's internal faculties of subjective feeling and power of imagination and this shall be possible only when we intentionally and skillfully, stretch the internal as well as external milieus around our body.

This becomes possible only when our subjectivity and imagination have leveled ground of tolerance, openness, mutuality and above all, the magical element of forgiveness.

This theatre of body must enact the song of love, dance of compassion, dramas of affability and symphony of mutuality, well before time draws the curtain on the theatre. It is not some clichéd moralistic blabber, but a very practical and realistic need for peaceful and happy life.

It is very simple to understand and accept that body-mind positioning of different people need to be diverse, as this ensures variety and versatility to the society. This is in fact a good thing as this ensures larger wellness to more people in the society.

The fact however remains that despite difference in consciousnesses; different people are the same as they have not only commonality of mechanism but also a very apparent symbiosis to it.

This is revealed to us and is easy to accept when we step aside our daily life flux, rise above the instinctive 'reaction-mode' consciousness and enter the 'reception-mode'. We have the brilliance as a huge problem solver because we have this unique and largely exclusive facility of this 'reception-mode' mechanism.

We need to master this mode and then it would be amply clear that most of our problems and troubles are actually our own making as we ourselves dress them up. As we undress the problems, solutions shall automatically be seen standing right there.

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We As 'Generic' And 'Specific' Subject

WE ARE ALL USED TO believing ourselves as some 'subject' or 'protagonist', doing everything and being the cause of everything. Modern science however says, there are different 'subjects' within the broad subject of 'self'. Hundreds of years back, spiritualism has already said the same thing.

There is a 'Generic Subject', which scientists term as the 'auto-function' mechanism of our body-mind synchrony. Then, there is a 'Specific Subject'. This is our reception-mode consciousness.

In our normal daily life, it is this generic subject within us, which is doing everything, as it is the auto-reactive mechanism. It is in times of distress, confusion, extraordinary situations or crisis that the specific subject, which is an entity of non-reactive, receptive mind consciousness, comes to fore and takes good control of life.

We rise up in the morning, ready to go to work, take a train or drive a car, finish off the daily work, come back in the evening, play with kids, have diner and go to bed. The generic subject handles it all quite well. Usually, for most moments in a day, we never ever deeply feel our subjectivity – the deep feeling that 'we' did it all. We seldom have the need for imagining things with deeper inputs from 'Me'.

However, when there is a crisis, a problem, this generic subject lands in trouble as it has the nature of handling 'routine' things, which is instinctive. Problems need specific inputs from subjective imaginations and it is a domain of the reception-mode consciousness of specific subject.

For majority of us, our lives are dominated by the action-mode generic subject and this is because, it is this subject, which deals with routine affairs. The trouble is; we all live in a culture where most success benchmarks are of action-mode. Naturally, the generic subject is hailed as the 'winner' and star-performer.

Sadly, reception mode is considered regressive and primitive. It is neither put to use quite often nor is it relied upon as effective tool. The usually 'winner' reactive-subject is unconsciously assigned the task of even problem solving and this subject further aggravates the trouble by precariously dressing it up.

The reactive-mode generic subject does not seem to have this 'winning' ability and leisurely timeframe to 'undress' a problem to arrive at 'naked' solutions. The receptive-mode specific subject is the 'master' of this art, on whom we usually do not rely and relegate to backseat.

The trouble most of us have is this: We have blurred the fine line of distinction between the two modes. Even when, we are supposed to be in 'receptive mode', we are ideating in 'actionable' patterns. We all live in such a contemporary societal space where every reception is culturally required to be converted into action mode.

Someone said it very innocently but sincerely – "Even when I am hugging and kissing my lover, I am not focusing on the joy of love and satisfaction of intimacy but on the idea that whether I am 'performing' well enough as a lover!" Our obsession with 'actionable' consciousness is corroding the potential joys and abilities of the receptive-mode subject.

There is a Japanese term called Shikan Taza, which is practiced by Zen masters. The word literally means 'Just Sit'. There are many interpretations of the term as a 'meditation-art'. However, what it means, in its holistic form is – "Sitting in a state without any tangible and intangible thought for action".

It is essentially a practice of arriving and staying at 'receptive-mode' mechanism of consciousness. Shikan Taza then opens the doors for higher consciousness, where perspective is holistic, assimilative and integrative. Here, problems are naked, unburdened of the dressing up of actionable-fabrics.

In Yoga and Vedic traditions of ancient Oriental world, we also have many such meditative techniques, which look like similar art. This only goes on to establish that wellness and goodness needs, across humanity, irrespective of cultural differences are the same and even the art and science to attain this are similar.

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New Thinking On Consciousness, Cognition And Causality

THERE IS THIS POPULAR perception that the world is growing more problematic as overall, complexities of living environment is growing fast and individuals are more stressed, even in their normal life. However, researches also confirm that this world has growingly become a better place to live, with standard of living and overall support system getting better.

If we think of it, this is in fact the carnival time for humanity, definitively a phase in evolution to celebrate with jubilation, not because we have managed to build more structures and other facilities for our consumption and better living. The reason for jubilation is that we now have reached to a 'new wisdom', which is fast and decisively coming up for all of humanity. This 'new thinking' is a huge facility for understanding the 'mechanisms' of all our problems and troubles and then, singularly working for a satisfying solution.

There has been and shall always remain the critical three elements, which represent the core of all wisdom. In the past, humanity has attempted to give answers relating to questions in these three areas. The future also pertains to understanding them better with whatever novel and better tools available for humanity. Most of the problems and troubles, we face have connection with these three questions. They are:

  * The subjective self – the Consciousness – the 'Observer'

  * The objective matter – the Cognition – the 'Observed'

  * The interaction of self and matter – the Causality – the 'Observance'.

We live in a world, which has definitively entered a doorway of new time threshold, opening up new information, insights, theorization, pragmatism, perspective, paradigms and methodology into the existing as well as archetypal wisdom about the above three. As we see the notions of 'Observer – Observed – Observance' in the light of this new thinking, we can understand the whole mechanisms of our problems and solutions in a better and effective ways.

Humanity in the new millennium is most certainly evolving a holistic, assimilative and integrative wisdom model, comprising a judicious and innovatively insightful assimilation and integration of archetypal wisdom of spiritualism and philosophy as well as the pure sciences in its wider manifestation. The quantum physics is the indicator of the new frontier science is now willing to open, as an improvement over classical science, for better understanding of matter and consciousness.

We have now entered a phase of an understanding of the 'self', the subjective as well as objective consciousness and even the subconscious minds as never before. We can now understand the 'self' in such new and innovative lights that it opens up new insight into the archetypal and puts us all in better stead. Of course, the knowledge is evolving but evolving fast and on right track. Debatable, it shall always be.

How this new thinking helps in solving our key problems and troubles, we can understand with the help of this example, which is very common in our lives. This is the problem of judging and being judged by people, which makes us sad and very upset, to the brink of being left with a broken heart.

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Problem Of Judging Those, Who Judge Us

THERE ARE WHOLE LOTS of those who know you; those who think they know you and those who do not know you at all – they all shall judge you. The thing is – you always feel bad and even angry about why anyone should judge you. Earlier, the issue was in the domain of morality and as we did not understand the whole mechanism of this human trait, we felt pained and unhappy.

As this new thinking of proven scientific knowledge tells us, we can understand and accept that this is not at all something of a bad habit; rather it is an instinctive mechanism with all creatures, even the superior humans.

Science says, all creatures see things in the outside world as 'images' and these images are made inside the mind. The mind then has to refer it to various set of neurons for 'reference', which you may call as 'judgment'.

The very word called 'judging' and its emotional troubles are in fact 'cultural troubles', emanating out of an innocuous, innocent and innate mechanism of 'referral of mind', which all living beings, especially humans instinctively do.

Our minds store all previous 'experiences' as icons of reference and based on this subjective experiences, one judges the 'utility or futility' of any image, which comes into the mind, when we see things or others. Therefore, you already know, when someone is judging you 'bad or good', it is most unlikely to be 'objective' as his or her 'experiences' shall mostly be subjective. It is all personalized worldview.

For example, if a tall man had once robbed a woman, she is very likely to judge all tall men as 'bad' or at least see them with suspicion. Very few have the objectivity about their personalized and subjective life experiences. This is instinctive.

That is why, forgiving those, who judge you, is what you ideally do, as it has nothing to do with morality. It has simply to do with realistic understanding of the human instinct and the practical ease, at which you can buy your precious peace. Forgiving someone who judges you is less of an effort than making yourself irritated, annoyed and retributive with the judging person. It is also because, we all do it.

In this world, if you choose to pay people in the 'same coin', you shall lose all your precious 'peace-moneys'. So, forgiving is most easily affordable profitable choice. Avail it.

Judging is an ever-present, ongoing and perpetually omnipresent process of life. Now, the key and core aspect of it is to have right and aware judgments. For example, the person you loved so much for long, someday abandons you and says it to the world that you were 'unfit' for him/her.

As it is now your turn to judge, you need to be warned – you are in a soup of emotion, impulse/desire, imagination, negative thought and intuition. This is not the right time and frame of mind-consciousness for you to do the judging thing.

Ideally, you let it hang for a while; allow time and space to redeem yourself to the point where you have – objectivity, calm consciousness, no biases and anger. Then, wait a bit more. It is important that you come out of the situation first. For that to happen to you, you shall need to change your contemporary 'reactive-mode consciousness to the 'receptive-mode'.

As you sit for judgment, remember, the golden rule of judgeship is – even if hundred culprits go scot free, an innocent should never be convicted. Judgeship is a non-emotional and compassionate, yet objectively righteous idea. Always remember, trial starts with a notion that 'wrong' has happened but not with 'who' has wronged. At the start, there are no 'culprits', only 'suspects'.

This new thinking has given us the new facility for problem solution. This is by understanding the mechanism of the 'problem' with a 'receptive-mode' consciousness and not with the 'reactive-mode' consciousness as the later has larger elements of popular cultural benchmarks of good or bad, right or wrong.

The new thinking asks us to have a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective while analyzing the root of the trouble. This helps us in getting rid of the unnecessary burden of the 'cultural-fabrics' and 'subjective-mind with which we usually 'dress-up' a simple problem, in our reactive-mode consciousness.

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Dualism Of Love And Problems It Engenders

SOLUTIONS ARE OFTEN, AN alternative positioning of the same situation, which presents as a problem. Moreover, it is our own subjective positioning vis-à-vis a particular situation, which works out as a problem.

For example, a river is such a blessing for humanity. A river benefits millions, irrigating their agricultural lands, providing drinking water et al. Most early civilizations therefore started along big rivers. However, the same river kills some people, who get drowned in it. The same thing is a source of both joys and sorrow. It is how we position ourselves vis-à-vis the river, or how the river itself is positions vis-à-vis we, which decides whether this river is a beauty or a burden.

Similarly, love is such an intensely amazing facility for humanity. However, love is also a duality. Many think it is the key possession of their lives, whereas, many feel it is the devastator of their lives. One person, who has enjoyed the benefits of love at one point of time, also has to bear the pains of love, in another situation. Like the river, the way love and we position vis-à-vis each other lands us either in joy or trouble. Love remains neutral, as it always is.

A young girl, who was in deep love with a guy said, "I am beautiful as you say it so... my eyes are amazing as they could see you... my lips are lovely as they can taste you... my curls are gorgeous as you play with them...etc." This girl remained in joyful state of love's beautifully satisfying endowments for a year and celebrated the dissolution of her being with her lover.

Later, she separated from her lover and complained to her best friend, "Now, when I am out of this stupidity, I realize; how I had lost my individuality and the very sense as who I am. How could I lose my identity for a man who could not understand me...!"

We may find this dualism or confusion as weird. However, it is surely not. Both the contrasting and conflicting states are very normal and instinctive to our mechanism. The same person would find joy and satisfaction in losing his or her subjective self and identity, when in love.

However, when out of it, this very loss shall no more be enjoyable rather a big regret and pain. Both situations are part of our mechanism.

Love needs this 'assimilation' for its fruition. However, we live in a world, where most benchmarks of success and attainments are very much 'identity-oriented'. The person's urge for 'personal identity' is very pronounced in modern milieu. Naturally, love's fruition shall land us in some inconvenience, in our other domains of life and living.

So, which is a problem? The element of love, which makes us face it all? Or the person of our love, who left us? We can argue that love remained the same and it was the person who changed and this caused the trouble. Others can say, persons remained what they were but what changed is love and this caused the trouble.

The solution is in understanding the problem first. Love is a neutral element of the mechanism. We all have it and need it. Love is like water, it takes the shape of the vessel you keep it in. It takes the color of the jar you pour it in. The dynamics of love plays the role, the 'theatre' of our body-mind consciousness assigns it. The 'script' of the role, love shall play, in the theatre of individual consciousness is almost entirely in the hands of the subject – the individual.

However, this 'subject' is not one single and fixed entity. We have talked about it earlier that an individual as a subject can be different subjects in different time and space positioning and situations. A 'generic' subject shall play the role of love differently than a 'specific' subject. The consciousness of the subject is in constant interaction and interplay with its ambient environment, which itself is ever changing.

This is why, we talked earlier about how this world and its endowments are largely neutral, neither good nor bad. In other words, things are equally good or bad. What accepts something as joy and other as trouble is the subjective self – the individual. It is largely, the mind consciousnesses of people, which are the actual 'Theatre' of all troubles as well as happiness. It is mostly our subjective 'positioning', vis-à-vis a particular situation, which makes us accept something as trouble and others as happiness.

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Conflicts Of Different Layers Of Body-Mind Consciousnesses

IT IS PERTINENT TO REITERATE here that understanding the mechanism always helps in understanding the problems and this in turn reaches us to bare solutions. The new wisdom has facilitated the objective and singular understanding of the mechanism. Let us spare our precious attention to the details of the 'mechanism' so that we have better understanding of the root of the problems.

We have layers of conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious elements of personality and all elements are within an individual and operate simultaneously. There is layer of instincts, tendencies and complexes, which one part of our brain handles. Then is a layer of our learnt and acquired knowledge and facts, which is largely the 'cultural mind'. And, most importantly, there is a layer of our individual talent and potential, which is largely a result of our unlearning in adulthood, forming our 'de-cultured' and 'de-mystified' mind consciousness. This is termed as 'higher consciousness'.

An individual is often split and conflicted between different layers of consciousnesses. Different layers present different demands simultaneously – sensual demands, emotional needs, impulse, imaginations, etc.

The ideal person is one who develops a 'poise' between all the requirements of different dimensions of consciousnesses and this is possible only when this person has a holistic, integrative and assimilative perspective of all these demands of the 'Self'. The higher consciousness needs to strike harmony and balance. This 'poise' is the worthy precursor to the naked solution.

An individual has sub-personalities within his broad personality and often there is either a conflict or imbalance of sorts. This is psychosis. The idea of sub-personalities is a way of conceptualizing how we shift from one identity or shade of consciousness to another as we move through life. In a single day, we may move through having different, often conflicting and competing identities.

In the morning, we have a good talk with our partner and we feel 'loved' and 'happy'. In daytime, our partner does not reply to our SMS and we feel 'ignored'. In the evening we see him with another beautiful person and we feel 'hurt' and 'zealous'. At night, our partner comes home with a nice gift and we feel 'wanted' and 'relieved'. Within 12 hours, we can be 'victors' as well as 'victims'. We are unconsciously buoying up in a pool of emotions almost all the time.

A sub-personality functions mechanically and instinctively. It is like acting out a routine. It is our 'reactive-mode' consciousness. While a sub-personality is just a portion of the personality, we can and often become totally identified with it, placing its needs and perspectives above all else. This is 'psychosis', as against the 'poise' between all sub-personalities. The sub-personalities often act out unconscious motivations to the detriment of the personality as a whole. An individual needs a harmony of the different, often conflicting and competing roles (sub-personalities).

This poise and balance between sub-personalities is far more challenging in modern world as we are living in a very complex socio-economic environment and our life has been unduly pressured by cultural benchmarks of success. Also, we live in a social space full of extremities and conflicting notions. In contemporary world, psychosis is fast becoming 'normal' and in the popular culture, poise is being labeled a benchmark of failure. Be warned.

The sub-personality concept is particularly useful for taking charge of an automatic reaction pattern or for resolving inner conflicts. We all must identify our sub-personalities, register their conflicts and then, consciously de-identifying from them engaging in a dialogue with your higher conscious self.

The higher consciousness is not something aloof from an individual. The higher self is not a rejection of individual's baser selves. This is a mind positioning within, which accepts conflicts of the different personality aspects and functions. It is a super state of mind awareness, which recognizes all aspects; be it in any state of unconscious and attempts to bring them to the layer of consciousness for harmonizing them into a fruitful whole.

This mechanism of the higher consciousness is very crucial for effective understanding of root problems and their naked solutions. Let us understand it with the help of an example from our daily life, which is very common and part of almost everyone's life.

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Dualism Of Love And Mechanism Of Higher Consciousness

A LOVER SAYS TO HIS beloved, "I would say only what pleases you, to the extent that if you prefer to call a day as night, I would too!" This, lovers always say to each other.

Even when they know it very well that such a thing is never ever practically possible, still, saying and listening it from the loved ones make us so happy. Melting one's personality for merger with that of his or her lover is a favorite love urge and need.

The truth is, this is something, which finally proves out to be the main trouble in love and intimacy. There is a huge semantic as well as mental dualism in this positioning. Most people are in the habit of accepting popular benchmarks and this for many is true for personal perspectives on 'true' love as well as divinity.

This dualism has to be understood. As is the popular cultural understanding of such a positioning, we believe that the lover seems to say, "For me right and wrong is not important, what is, is your joy as I love you". Similar is the populist positioning for God's love.

The trouble is, when in deep love, what other meaning, which the lines may convey, most of us happily ignore or are reluctant to accept. The other meaning, the lover might intend to convey is, "Love has positioned me to defer the issue of right and wrong as primary is your joy, the righteousness can wait".

What it also may conveys is, "My accepting or rejecting a right or wrong is not in my hand as right or wrong shall be what they are irrespective of my viewpoint, what is in my hand and I am very happy to do it is, accept what you say as I truly love you".

More importantly, if we have a holistic, assimilative and integrative consciousness, what it may actually mean is, "It is essentially a first step towards the realization and arriving at right or wrong because, when I accept your viewpoint, I take the first necessary step towards assimilation and as and when you and me assimilate, there shall never be two minds and two consciousnesses. This shall be the time when we together shall see day as day and night as night. It is just a transitional but primary step that I am so happily accepting as I love you".

This last positioning of consciousness is 'higher' consciousness as it is a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective. The instinctive 'reactive-mode' consciousness would accept only the first meaning of the sentence, which the lover said and shall always be in trouble.

The 'receptive-mode' consciousness would always accept and appreciate all other possible meanings and shall reach to the conclusion, which a higher mind consciousness evolves and accepts.

This higher mind consciousness of 'receptive-mode' positioning, which works on the golden principle of holism, assimilation and integration, shall be in a position to understand the mechanism of a problem or trouble devoid of the burden of 'dressed-up' fabrics of a reactive-mode consciousness.

This higher mind shall understand the dualism of the mechanism and shall have ready solutions of all problems, as he or she would see and accept that solution is just the alternative arrangement of elements, which caused a problem.

In our lives, we are always faced with dualism. Often, in our reactionary consciousness, we see only one and partial side of thing. This is the real problem. The higher mind consciousness, which can see the holism, is the solution provider.

We have our popular definition of success and failures. We see failures as problem and success as solution. The higher consciousness sees and accepts both as two sides of the same coin. This is naked solution.

We have a very popular story of twins born to a family. One was born healthy and other had congenital heart trouble. The doctors told the parents that the diseased twin would not survive for more than five years.

The parents took the situation as a challenge and took special care of the unhealthy kid. From very early, the kid inculcated the idea that he would have to lead a very careful life for survival. He went on to live for eighty years, leading a regulated and disciplined life. The other kid, who was healthy and fit, never had any limitations and he lived his life as he wished. The parents thought he was fit and never disciplined him. He died of heart attack, when only 35.

Loren Eiseley said, "It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the final paradox, which men call evolution."

This speaks volumes of the dualism we all face in our modern social milieus. We have a set of benchmarks of successes and failures, the good or bad, the right or wrong; defined by our popular culture. These cultural benchmarks have become part of our instinctive mechanism.

A reactive-mode consciousness can be in trouble as it may not be in a position to handle the 'dualism' of success or failure benchmarks. We all need to understand and make distinction between varying utilities of the same benchmark in different domains of life.

A good employee, in a marketing company, or in any economic activity, shall be required to have 'aggressive' attitude towards company's targets. If we apply the same benchmark of 'goodness' in the social sphere, especially in relationships, we shall be a disaster. Here, the virtue is not 'aggression' but 'accommodation', which is a failure benchmark in corporate domain.

In addition, the meaning of 'aggression' or 'accommodation' may be different, when you are in reactive-mode consciousness or in receptive-mode. There is often a tendency to either under-mean it or over-mean it. A poised meaning is a facility, not always available to people in daily life flux.

The dualism is always unraveling itself in almost all things in life and living situations. The conflict is endemic. Success parameters at one time can be a failure-format at another time and space and vice-versa. What is the ultimate success principle is to understand this dualism and sincerely attempt to be in the 'poise-position'.

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A Mega Facility, Which Proved To Be Chief Trouble Maker

WE SHOULD NOW TALK about why and how we usually dress-up a problem and make it far more complicated than it actually is. Once we understand the mechanism of this dressing-up of problems around us, we shall have no problem in finding solutions. In the mechanism of problem, lies the facility of solution.

Once again, it is the new wisdom of scientific investigation, which puts us in good stead in understanding the mechanism. We just need to look around for something very crucial and helpful to us in the animal world. You look at Zebras in the wild. There shall be thousands of them but all of them would look almost the same. It would be difficult to distinguish between the same sizes of Zebras.

This similarity in the animal world is not only morphological but also largely mental. All animals of the same species shall have largely similar consciousness too. That is why; all of them have almost similar behavioral and actionable routines and habits. Think of it, had this been true with humanity, we would have been in huge trouble. As an animal recognizes its baby by its scent, we too would have spent hours sniffing around for our kids.

It is no joke. Scientists now confirm, it was a human reality too, just some thousands of years back. We looked very similar like animals. Only modern Homo sapiens look distinctively dissimilar.

We are talking about it to arrive at one single reality, which has been a huge facility for us, but also the cause of equal amount of confusions and conflicts. This shall decipher the 'mechanism', which makes us dress-up our troubles.

Animal world is very homogenous in physical environment and as the animals have very limited element of subjective consciousness and facility of imagination, most of their actions and behaviors are instinctive, therefore common. They live in close collectivity and the commonality of instinctive action-behavior is the core basis of their survival and collective excellence.

Humans also started the same way. However, later humans evolved to have the facility of subjective consciousness and a very powerful element of imagination, which made them far more superior to other species and a worthy species to rule the world.

However, this facility had a hidden energy of big trouble for humanity in later stages. Humanity used its power of imagination in solving problems, winning over the restrictive and brutal environment. It spread to all parts of world, even in inhospitable climates.

Different environments necessitated different adaptations and this led to different ethnicities of humans. Morphological differences cropped up. These differences triggered off the subjective feelings and later, different cultures evolved for different groups of people.

Much later, when humans began to look different, have different cultures, habits and tastes, evolved because of different adaptation needs in differentiated physical environments, tribalism developed and ethnic differences led to incessant conflicts and wars between people.

The subjective feelings and imaginations created difference between people even within the same environment and tribe. The socio-cultural conflicts within a community surfaced for the first time as population grew. These were novelties of human culture, which are still missing in animal world.

Cultural specialties and exclusivities grew in nature and content. The homogeneity of action and behavior was the toughest challenge for humanity. Subjective feelings led to philosophies of minds. Different subjective mind consciousnesses created and believed in different philosophies. Religions too were created with different idealisms and rituals, suiting to endemic cultures.

In modern times, we see the subjectivity of individuals and their subjective imaginations at its worst best and that is why, it is only very natural that differences, conflicts and competitiveness have grown out of proportions.

Long years of cultural behavior-action patterns have created a sub-conscious mind, which is led to culturally defined benchmarks of success and failures in an auto-mode.

Essentially, the element of subjectivity and imagination, which made us superior to animals and made us win the battle with brutal nature to successfully build an all-endowed society, has now become so intense and potent, that it has become a huge burden for the survival of a peaceful and systematic society. Scientists warn, "Intelligent races are suicidal in nature".

Remember, Dinosaurs, the mightiest of species, who dominated the earth for around 170 million years, never had intra-species trouble of serious nature. They were powerful but had no culture. They had almost no subjective feeling and facility of imagination. They lived peacefully for long.

On the other hand, humanity in its modern form, has been on Earth for just around two million years and already, experts are warning that we can become extinct in next few thousand years, because of the burden of our own conflicts, largely cultural. The fact remains that humanity is more in conflict with humanity itself.

The solution for individuals as well as societies is not in reverting to the pre-civilization and pre-culture days and resort to animal-world simplicity. It is not possible. The solution is in understanding this 'mechanism' we all have and how problems we face are rooted in our very mechanism and in the way we have evolved over millions of years.

This is the sure and certain way of undressing a problem, seeing it in its nakedness, in its originality and innate way. The solution comes automatic. If problems are in positioning ourselves vis-à-vis this mechanism in a certain way, the solution is in changing this position and shift to a position, where it either does not affect us, or becomes profitable.

This profitable position is of a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective unleashed by a receptive mind consciousness, through acceptance, compassion and symbiosis of behavior-action positioning.

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Why The Greatest Problem-Solver Turns Mega Problem Itself

IT SEEMS A VERY STUPID thing to say but it seems, human intelligence, what it is deemed as in popular sense, is the worst element of disaster for humanity!

It is truly crucial to demystify the puzzle as why the best problem solver of universe is now mired in and overwhelmed by worst of problems; mostly of its own creation. Once we understand and accept the mechanism of this puzzle, we shall have the ease in 'undressing' the problems. The solution shall be clearly visible.

We wonder, how even ancient humans successfully build mega structures like Egyptian Pyramids and Taj Mahal In India, at a time when today's modern technology and tools were not available. We call them 'Wonders'.

It was all possible because thousands of men and women, who worked to build these wonders, adhered to singular and objective principle of architectural design and structure making. It was possible because, there was this only possible way available for making these wonders. This principle remains the same.

Humanity developed the structures and functions of global aviation, space satellites, computers, internet, automation and proven solutions for almost all health problems. These modern wonders became possible also because of the singularity of methodology and scientific principles, which engendered them.

However, the same brilliant human, the magician of all solutions for all possible troubles is a huge flop like a stupid when it comes to solving his or others personal problems. Humanity could not even fix a singular benchmark for societal or personal good and bad.

Individuals and society at large are facing acute and widespread problems of drugs, suicides, corruption, mafia, crime, racialism, terrorism etc. We are culturally, ethnically, economically as well as politically a hugely divided and conflicted bunch of 7 billion people on Earth. We are conflicted and confused within and having its larger than life reflection in our societies and cultures. Why?

The answer seems very clear and simple. We have attained huge mechanical success but fail in our cultural excellence. Our technologies are common globally and accepted with ease. However, culturally, we have huge difference of personal as well as collective behavior.

The simple fact is – the mechanical success comes because of the adherence to 'singularity' of objective, proven and measurable procedures, which we call technology; whereas the cultural failure owes it to plurality and multiplicity of conflicting subjective procedures based on culturally-differentiated opinion, conjecture, imagination, hearsay, dogma, ideology, fantasy and fiction having almost little measurable and proven basis.

If we have to make huge and state of the art space satellite, we can have a team of a hundred scientists and technicians from same number of countries. They shall work together peacefully and successfully build the satellite, even when they have different languages and cultural preferences.

However, even if a team of a hundred intellectuals from one single country, with same ethnicity and cultural background is gathered to chalk out a simple thing like a primary school educational syllabus, there shall be loads of conflicts and debates. Almost every single person shall have his or her own idea and this he or she would insist to be the right one, and probably the only right one.

It is just because, their ideas shall be very subjective, based on subjective imagination about what they deem as good and right. Unlike technology, their ideas shall not be based on singular, objective, measurable and proven basis of knowledge and wisdom. The conflict and confusion is bound to prevail.

It is just a simple notion to understand. A husband and wife shall have conflict over later wishing to go on a vacation and former wanting to buy the latest Television set in the market. Once they decide on a Television, it shall be easy as there shall not be a battle over which one. The one with latest technology, with most features and applications as well as the best brand value shall be a unanimous choice. However, once the Television is at home, the fight shall commence over who shall watch what on it!

We are stretching this idea in long discussion just to bring to the attention the realism that those issues, which are purely emotional, intangible, inter-personal, behavioral and ideational, shall be always open to larger conflicts and competitiveness compared to those, which are tangible. The reason is, former is in the domain of subjectivity and later in objectivity.

This understanding shall help us, when later we talk about how to 'undress' our problems to arrive at easy solutions. The very understanding that subjectivity and cultural elements are great facilities for us but they are also the elements, which prompt us to unnecessarily 'dress-up' a simple trouble. Knowledge and acceptance of this mechanism shall help us in 'undressing' our problems for easy solutions.

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Mechanism Of The Layers Of Consciousnesses

AS WE COME TO THIS crucial stage of how to undress our problems, we have a realization that this whole exercise is very much an individualistic task. The 'self', our subjective consciousness, is the theatre of everything, where things are staged. It is also supposed to be the 'chief protagonist', who needs to make necessary changes in the 'script' and 'direction' to effect a welcome 'change' in the 'drama of life'.

This necessitates having a relook on what this 'self', the 'I' or the subjective consciousness is. This is very crucial as the new wisdom has been successful in deciphering many hidden secrets about the 'self' and 'consciousness' in the past decade and this knowledge has not yet reached to common people. Why blame common people when even state institutions, as important as legislative and judicial wings of nation's governance have not been able to incorporate this new wisdom in their age-old practices.

This new wisdom helps us in understanding the mechanism of 'self' and subjective consciousness in an objectively singular and holistically assimilative way. Only when we understand and accept ourselves in this new light of wisdom, we shall be empowered to understand our problems in objective way. This is the solution route.

Since long, the key question, "who are we", was in the domain of philosophy and religion. Modern science has revealed much of the mystery of the mechanism of this 'self' and consciousness, though still not offering all possible answers. Still, we now have good knowledge of the functioning of the brain, the theatre of our consciousness.

As we have already talked, we do not have to be in the debate and conflicts between science, philosophy and religion. We have already discussed that the modern new thinking is not biased and one-sided. It is holistic, assimilative and integrative. We are neither blindly rejecting anything, nor blindly accepting anything. We are open to all interpretations and knowledge. We take all ideas, take an assimilative view and attempt to see a particular issue, situation and idea from all possible angles.

It is very crucial to understand and accept that all wisdoms, be it traditional or modern, have great symbiosis and are never in competition. We have already talked about it how, in the core, there is beautiful similarity and it is only in the periphery, different wisdoms of humanity look like competing. The difference is purely subjective, cultural and behavioral. This we are not discussing here in detail. The simple idea is to take all wisdoms in an assimilative and integrative way.

What science has successfully done is furnish the missing link of 'why' we are 'what' and 'how' we are. Moreover, this actually complements what core philosophy and spirituality have been telling us since ages. In the last half a century, we have achieved huge success in the field of key areas like health care and disease control. It is because, molecular biology, electronics, neuroscience and genetic engineering have made great headways in unraveling the mechanisms of how our mind and other organs work up to as detail as molecular levels.

Unraveling the mysteries of mind functioning has become possible because we have developed great technologies, which enable us to successfully understand our own mechanisms in minutest possible way. This new wisdom has been a great endowment for humanity. Tragically, it has not percolated to mass levels. It shall in time.

The new science tells us, we, our subjective consciousness, is not a cohesive singular being. We need to understand the mechanism of brain to comprehend it all. Our brain is not a single organ, with single function, like other organs of our body.

Our brain has layers and they have formed in millions of years of evolution. What we, as a subjective consciousness decide, is a mega function of different layers, sides and portions of our brain. We shall talk about these issues in general terms. For pure scientific knowledge, you can read the concerned books.

Part of the brain handles our instincts, lying there since ages. Parts of brain deals with our imaginations and emotions. The left part of brain and right brain handles different functions. However, all parts work simultaneously and in great coordination. That is why, within a second, different parts of brain does different functions, but we never feel it and always believe that we are one singular identity. When this coordination and symmetry is disturbed, we have troubles handling even normal routines of life and our sanity is disturbed.

Science has a long way to go as scientists admit, "Our conscious thoughts, sensations and perceptions – what define us as humans – cannot yet be explained in terms of brain activity". However, work is in progress and in right direction.

Contemporary science maintains, "Conscious thought, an awareness of identity, a feeling of personal management, is a relative newcomer, and probably more developed in man than in the other higher animals. It grew from the ability to imagine, to create experiences in the sensor memories".

Scientists say, "All of these neural processes are interwoven in the human mind in various portions. They are used simultaneously, and the divisions between them are invisible to us. We never really know which element prevailed in our decision".

"If we are in our day-to-day mode, we operate entirely intuitively (instinctively). If we want to lean back and look at things, we are in our 'awareness' (subjective) mode. It is only when we set our conscious minds to it, and rigidly adhere to the process, that we are 'intelligent'. Being 'intelligent' is not an 'easy' process, nor is it fun. It requires effort to learn and rigid self-control to use. But, it is productive".

There is an interesting fact about our brain – the core of our consciousness. A grown up healthy brain has only 15 percent as genetic makeup; rest 85 percent is environmental. This means, what one is born with, is just a small percentage of our conscious self; the majority of our brain has inputs from the environment – tangible and intangible – which is the socio-cultural-geographical milieu, a child is raised in.

What does it suggest? It signals the larger role of our ambient environment, the ethnicity of localized culture, in the larger subjective consciousness of a person.

We also know from modern science that the conscious mind – the subjective consciousness, which is also termed as our intelligence – is very small, compared to the huge field of sub-conscious mind. This sub-conscious mind is largely our intuitive referral benchmarks and icons.

Scientists say, "If we were to compare the conscious mind with the subconscious, the conscious would measure about one foot long and the subconscious would be the length of a football field. The potential is enormous. That is why, everything we experience can be stored. However, the conscious mind would get overloaded trying to process all the incoming bits of data on a daily basis. Instead, all the information goes into the subconscious for storage".

Why we are dealing with all these brain intricacies? For the simple reason to understand and accept, that the mechanism we have, is at the core of troubles and problems we have, despite the fact that the same mechanism is our strength and decisive superiority over all other species on Earth.

Our subjective consciousness, which is our intelligence, is not a singular decision-making mechanism. As scientists say, "The human brain is a cooperative composed of perhaps thousands of individual reactive decision mechanisms, each with its own memory, interconnection with all others, and judgment. The voting of these mechanisms is so fast and so in harmony that we perceive the entire system as being the thought of one mechanism, which, in effect, the overall system becomes".

As large part of this decision-making process is made of environment, every individual subjective consciousness shall have different benchmarks and iconism for decision-making and this decision-making is tough as even the individual is never sure which element of his conscious and sub-conscious mind prevailed over his or her decision.

This fresh new look at the challenges of subjective decision-making, through the lens of the latest brain research and cognitive neuroscience is very helpful in understanding how and why we have a mechanism, which creates so much conflict and confusion, both within and outside.

For example, you are in a joint and you order tea for yourself and ask your friend, what he would like. He is a confirmed coffee drinker but that day, he goes with you and have tea instead. As the waiter comes with two teas, your friend suddenly refuses to accept it and asks for coffee. You would wonder what happened? Your friend too would wonder equally! What prevailed over his earlier decision to have tea with you may also be a mystery to your friend. You may feel bad and hurt, thinking, your friend does not care for you. Please do not feel so!

The mechanism tells us, the friend earlier was probably in the emotion of affection for you and was willing to forego his choice for coffee to make you happy. Suddenly, a flash memory visited his sub-conscious mind as how last time he had come here with his boss and he had a tiff with him. The emotion of anger against his boss probably prevailed over his affection for you for just a fleeting second and in a subconscious state, he reversed his order.

It however, does not anyway mean that your friend did not love or care for you. Even your friend is not sure why he did what he did. He could however tell you later.

Who we are is unraveled in layers. The layers are both vertical as well as lateral. Unfortunately, higher layers are often transitional and transient. Layers of consciousnesses, often competing and conflicting are part of human mechanism and the environment in which it survives and thrives.

Glimpses of these layers also do come natural to many, not all; as an involuntary mechanism; still, the energy to glide through all these layers is not automatic and habitual. Humans have been designed to live in a state of flux.

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Modern Complex Milieu Engendering A 'Self' In Constant State Of Flux

THIS AT LEAST PARTLY explains why we are in constant conflict with 'self' and ambient environment. This engenders layers of consciousnesses and a fleeting sense of 'differential me'. We shift through different identifications as we move through life. In a single day, we may move through different consciousnesses like, being victim, martyr, crusader, critic, busy-bee, lazy-bones, striver, loser, unsung hero, and so on.

During a day, as and when you change your action pattern, lateral shift of consciousness takes place, which most do not notice. You are a different person while in bed at night than what you were when in office, haggling with your boss. Often, one stint of consciousness brings about contradictory consciousness, which usually goes unnoticed. Be a spendthrift for a while and suddenly, you tend to feel the virtue of being a miser. This is dialectic mechanism of consciousness. Both spendthrift and miser are part of you but it may seem two conflicting thing to others.

Such transient consciousnesses however, do not last long. Most people do not even feel it as shift of consciousnesses is often, auto and in subconscious. The state of flux is somehow more permanent. We however shall complain that the person has changed. Modern world, with its multidimensional complexities and differentiated cultures and environments has facilitated; appropriate it would be to say 'manufactured' a 'self' that shall feel a 'self', traversing the multiverse of consciousnesses.

This rather enhances and emboldens the 'state of flux' in a cyclic mechanism, which most educated and aware people face. The interesting reality is, the more intellectual you are, more flummoxed you shall be, managing your own 'multidimensional selves'.

It feels sad that many good, learned, affable and compassionate people get trapped in the 'conundrum' of 'layers of consciousness' and their ephemeral situation. Many of these people are too happy to live floating in the soup of multidimensional consciousnesses as they think; having this facility and attainment is 'big deal' and an end in itself.

We need to keep telling them that it is just a launch pad for a stage of 'higher consciousness', which is singular and on top of the pyramid and to attain that, one would need this energy of conflict between the layers of consciousnesses. This is very tough to believe as many of them would turn narcissistic and would not listen.

Very few people have the time, patience, inclination and the essential 'innocence of modesty' to understand the mechanism of the life energies, which unravel to you the multidimensionality of realisms.

Of course, the instinctive mechanism of humans is suited for living in flux and refusing to see itself in a perspective that challenges their core cultural beliefs. Very few rise up to the top layer of the pyramid of layers of consciousnesses.

That is why, it has been said: A guru (master) is must for attaining wisdom. It is not because a master is a learned person. It is because; you go to a master with an attitude to learn. A guru is often an icon of your willingness to have faith and learn.

I am sure, you too would have people in your life to whom layers of consciousnesses were unraveled and they talked about the conflicts and chaos of life situations, which this multidimensionality of consciousnesses threw them in.

The idea is to very affectionately and compassionately try to take them to understand the mechanism of all these and put them in a position from where they could be 'masters of mechanism', rather than being 'puppets of mechanism'.

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The Master 'I' As A Summation Of Different And Often Competing 'I's

IT IS NEVER EASY. The process of understanding one's 'self', often in a state of flux, is pitted against one's own beliefs about one's 'self'. No one is more than what one gets to believe he or she is. Life is often, a series of 'different MEs' at different stages of this constant flux. Only a handful rises above the flux to reach the top of the pyramid of consciousness.

The idea is simple, yet complicated. The 'I', who exists and performs in each layer of consciousness, is not 'singular'. Rather it is the summation of different 'MEs' of different layers of consciousnesses. There are different 'Is' when you are rising in the morning, playing with your kids, praying in the church, dealing finance with your colleagues, watching an opera in the evening, dizzy after boozing and finally in bed with your spouse.

Different life situations, requiring diverse sets of 'action-thought-behavior' patterns, as commensurate with ambient milieus, engender different 'layers of consciousnesses'. In all these layers, the 'I' may be different but there is one 'I' in 'higher consciousness', which is always sort of commanding all the former 'Is'.

This 'Master I' is not singular and independent, rather a summation of the all other 'Is'. The 'I' in the higher consciousness is not something aloof from an individual. The higher self is not a rejection of individual's baser selves or instincts.

This 'Master I' is a mind positioning within, which accepts conflicts of the different personality aspects and functions – the different 'Is'. It is a 'super state' of mind awareness, which recognizes all aspects and brings them to the layer of higher consciousness for harmonizing them into a fruitful whole.

Spiritualism gives us a metaphor of 'Master I' being the driver of a chariot with six horses, reigning in all of them to a singular path of 'appropriate'.

The core issue is to understand the higher consciousness in detail, as, it is this 'I', which has the definitive role of being the master of an individual. This 'Master I' is the media for exploration of an expanded experience of human identity, capacity and potential. This 'I' leads 'self' to a journey into transpersonal dimensions.

These dimensions encompass the higher levels of the energy spectrum: realms of higher consciousness that transcend the everyday awareness of the personality. People experience their higher consciousness when they are their highest and best, when their talents, abilities or higher qualities are manifesting.

The 'Master I' must always be evolving and as it evolves, the dimensions of consciousnesses get enlarged and the 'Master I' is empowered more. Changing cognition of causality evolves consciousness.

Suddenly, some day, throw yourself in some totally alien environment, sit easy and reflect over the years you have lived. In most likeliness, you shall find, "you" were different selves, in different stages of life so far. Trace the one single commonality in all "YOUs" and this is what defines you. Now, check, is it what you wish to be?

You cannot change your body much. You cannot even change your environment much. However, you can control the influences of your environment on your consciousness by intentionally keeping a distance from it, or completely shifting a totally new environment occasionally.

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The Archetypal Genius Versus The New Genius Problem Solver

NOW THAT WE HAVE talked about the mechanisms and factors that lead to we ourselves usually dressing-up our own problems, we are now in better position to talk about how we can 'undress' our problems for easy solutions.

We now know the importance of "unlearning". This is our mind mechanism for undressing the consciousness of the burden of those cultural learning and archetypal notions, which unconsciously become part of our already complex decision-making process.

Someone said a big fact in most amusingly simple way. It was said, "A normal healthy child born is the most genius being of the universe. We take almost 25 years to make a stupid out of him". This speaks of how, a talent, which is designed for solving all major problems, is culturally trained to be a huge problem itself.

We need to understand what is the real talent of we all. What is this intelligence, which makes us the genius of all solutions of all troubles. We should talk about in details about this particular mind-consciousness artistry, which is most suitable for trouble-shooting of all problems, be it tangible or intangible.

The question, as who is real genius or the true intelligent person, has this potential of eliciting irritated reaction from most of us. This is not anyway wrong, as it is only natural. Since long, we all have learnt from family members, peer groups and general society about the popular and prevailing culturally appropriate benchmarks of intelligence and genius. The definition, the new wisdom offers us is different.

The established benchmarks of an intelligent and genius are : A person who has brilliant memory, can do many things at times and that too very fast and better than most, has huge knowledge bank in his mind and can reproduce it in quick time, etc.

The modern assimilative and integrative wisdom however is different from these popular benchmarks of intelligence and genius. Moreover, this opinion is what a few humans talked about and recorded a few thousand years back! We shall talk about this.

Modern wisdom says, all the above-mentioned benchmarks of intelligence are only the actionable part of the human mind, which is almost entirely intuitive and instinctive. However, intelligence of mind is far more than that. All of these are neural processes and are interwoven in the human mind in various portions. In our day-to-day mode, we operate entirely intuitively (instinctively).

Experts say, "If we want to lean back and look at things, we are in our 'awareness' (subjective) mode. It is only when we set our conscious minds to it, and rigidly adhere to the process, that we are 'intelligent'. Being 'intelligent' is not an 'easy' process, nor is it fun. It requires effort to learn and rigid self-control to use. It is then hugely productive".

The decision-making by human mind in almost all aspects of day-to-day mode are usually done without any thinking or thought processing of mind; mostly as intuitive reaction of a presenting stimulus. However, when we stop before taking an intuitive and instinctive action and start thinking over the prudence and wider utility of the decision (action), we create something, which is what science calls 'intelligence'.

However, this is still not intelligence in perfectness. The self-control on our intuitive/instinctive behavior is only one part of our 'intelligence'. The other part is processing an intuitive input or a range of such stimuli with rigid and objective knowledge and scientific benchmarks.

For example, you see a platter of sweets with crispy fries on your dining table and instinctively, your hand reaches for them, as all your instinctive inputs urge you to eat it and that too most of them. However, you apply self-control as another part of your mind, your conscious self, warns you that this may be harmful for your health. You do not stop here. You go on to process the two mutually opposing inputs to your decision-making.

This surely is intelligence but not a complete one. Because, there are some people who overdo this intelligence and cause greater harm. Some people practice the self-control so much that they face another health problem in the form of anorexia. Listening to only your conscious mind at the cost of denying your intuitive self is not always intelligence.The intelligence is also in knowing your body facts and so many other facts correctly, which will make your decision-making matrix a perfect, objective and a poised one. This is what modern wisdom recommends – a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective for all decision-making exercise.

Being truly intelligent means, you know how much is your blood sugar level, what is your body's tendency to accumulate cholesterol, what is your current BMI, would you be ready and willing to burn that extra calorie by doing exercises, etc.

After holding back your decision to eat sweets and objectively and scientifically assessing your facts in rigid framework of sincerity, you may probably take the final decision to have half the plate or just one or two sweets and crispy fries only. This value-summation or decision-matrix is what science calls 'intelligence'.

The trouble is, all wise people from the fields of science, religion, philosophy and social sciences, regret that majority of daily decisions of most people are purely instinctive and intuitive, meaning that in a huge majority of human decisions, virtually no 'intelligence' is applied and still, these majority of humans would never ever admit that they are not intelligent and genius.

Tragically, among those who apply intelligence, most either under-do it or over-do it as they do not base their intelligence on rigid scientific data and facts and depend on popular social benchmarks of subjective knowledge. Still, nobody ever admits, he or she is not intelligent.

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Intelligence Is In Holistic, Assimilative And Integrative Decision-Making

MODERN WISDOM HAS made us truly empowered. We now understand the mechanism of mind's decision-making processes. We also understand how well we can train our minds to arrive at a consciousness, which is truly intelligent, as against the popular and archetypal idea of intelligence.

Mind is value neutral. We all are born with a value-neutral mind with instinctive mechanism for survival. Experts say, "The human mind has instinctive mechanism to universalize goodness as well as evil. What we feed in it is not its concern. This is the role of intellect. The universe has not put us where we are today with any specific purpose of designed goodness. We have to design our purpose."

We, as intellectual beings, need to set objective, lofty and larger goals for ourselves and then program our minds to attain it. That is why; the beautiful metaphor of 'God' was created by humanity as the ultimate and singular icon of all referrals for individual as well as collective value summation.

As we repeat this objective mind training to our brain, the objective goodness would spread all throughout its neural circuitry and then, we will not have to think twice to perform goodness, as it would then become an instinct, and thus an involuntary mechanism

A real good human is not one who needs to think and then behave and act good. Rather, it is someone who does not have to think as all his or her behavior and actions are instinctively bound to be good. This stage of consciousness comes only after rigid and constant practice of objective goodness. The higher consciousness leads us there.

Human actions are usually instinctive as we are designed this way. Intelligence is in an objective and lofty mind training through a scientific culture so that all goodness becomes intuitive and instinctive. We all need to be intelligent this way. This is the new thinking humanity has to be led towards.

Aligning our culturally 'dressed-up' mind-consciousness to this new thinking and wisdom is not easy. The first and foremost requirement is huge courage, determination and resilience.

Our first reaction; instinctively reactive as we humans are; is to reject it all in complete and categorical disbelief. Our mindsets have concretized over a huge period of thousands of years. This mindset is used to of accepting what is and has been icons and benchmarks in our popular culture since ages.

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'Unlearning' Is Greater Challenge Than 'Learning; But Real Intelligence

LATERAL, PLURAL AND UNFOUNDED behavior patterns and mindsets created by the popular culture, which is based on their subjective notions, have made us what we are today. Accepting something new and contrary to our mind and cultural training would be not only tough but also very painful for us.

That's why, the first requirement is this huge courage, determination and resilience in our part to come out of this mould and accept an entirely new mindset which shall look like as completely contrary to what we so far hold as not only true but 'sacred'. We need to be accommodative to this new knowledge and modern scientific facts, parallel to our traditional cultural ideas and benchmarks. Holism, assimilation and integration is the 'intelligence', which shall help in we all being the great problem-solver we have been.

We need to consciously and continuously tell our mind that look, we are in the midst of a huge change and we are introducing some new ideas and notions that is going to be the new and additional matrix, equally important, if not superior than the traditional one, for a new and objective value summation and decision-making.

Reiterate that resolve to your mind repeatedly as it is only through conscious repetition that mind accepts external inputs and then forms it as part of its instinctive value summation programming, or what people popularly refer as 'soul' or 'higher conscious'.

For example, His Holiness Dalai Lama said, "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional". This may sound like a philosophy or spiritual message but it has the total backing of science. Science is seldom against what true philosophy and spiritualism enlists as good and ideal. The difference is in the mechanism only.

Once we understand the objective and provable mechanism, we shall have ease in understanding the fruition and utility of holism, assimilation and integration of all wisdoms of humanity – old and new.

Reception of pain in mind is a sensor mechanism; one cannot stop that at entry point. However, mind also has 'processing' neurons, which is what science as well as religion-philosophy calls 'higher conscious'. This processing neuron can be trained not to react to the pains in usual emotions, rather accept it as an emotion of larger 'wellness', thus creating a 'feeling' that results in less suffering. Science admits, effective meditation can curb the sufferings upto 70%. Buddhist monks do it 99%. This is mind training, no miracle.

A situation is not same for different people. How good or bad one accepts a situation as depends on his past experience with a same or similar situation as well as the iconic-reaction one had earlier stored in mind as 'experience'.

For example, I fell from my cycle when I was a kid. It hurt a lot but blood did not come out. Therefore, what I said to myself was, "Oh, it is nothing as blood has not come out." And, I continued with cycling even as it pained a lot. I did say so because my mother would scream at me only when she would see me with a mishap where blood came out. Therefore, it was already there in my mind as 'referral' experience that bad is something which has a relationship with blood.

Next time I fell and if again blood did not come out, I would say, the mishap is not bad, even if it broke my bones. However, if I fell and blood came out, I would say, the mishap is a huge one, even when I would feel no or little pain. The feeling I shall have of a pain depends on my 'particular and subjective' emotions "learnt" from my experience. This is a cultural burden on my mind-consciousness, as I am being subjective in my decision-making about 'actual problem', as against the requirement of being objective.

I need to "undress" my mind-consciousness of my archetypal subjective 'benchmarks' of 'pain-assessment'. It is clear to an outsider that I am either under-assessing or over-assessing my actual pain because of my subjective consciousness. I need to 'undress' the element of my 'mother-factor' in my 'assessment' of pain. This is tough for me, easy for anyone else as the 'subjectivity' has now engrained in my mind and has become part of my instinctive decision-making. I can be 'intelligent' only when I am able to understand that and do this "undressing", before it is too late.

Problems and their assessment are usually relative experiences, often colored by our ambient culture and hence requiring different emotions and resultant feeling. What we need to do from childhood is, train our minds suitably.

This challenge is tougher when we have grown up. Still, we can train our minds to have an 'objective and actual' benchmarks and referrals of problem-assessment. This is a crucial process of "unlearning", which we talked about earlier. Monks do it with self-discipline of minds using techniques of meditation. We too can do that.

From the functioning of our minds, we now know that it is instinctive in human neural system to accept training and compete to become better. We also now know that what works for us is instincts. Majority of our decisions are instinctive and intuitive. So, intelligence is in conditioning our instincts through self-control, self-discipline and objectively train it to accept only those values as referral for instinctive value-summation which are proven, measurable, singular and objective.

We now have a scientific value matrix, which also must be known, understood and accepted for mind-evolution of a uniform global culture, as against multitude of conflicting and competing ethnic cultures.

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Unraveling The Bare-Basics Of Cultural Troubles Of Gender-Divide

KNOWING PROBLEMS AND troubles in its complete structural and functional details in utter objectivity always helps in arriving early and surely at solutions and even in the enhancement of overall utility of solutions.

For example, let us put to test, the modern and contemporary man-woman relationship, which was once the core culture responsible for success of human evolution but now, probably the universal platform of conflicts. The gender-divide is at the core of many problems, which modern societies face.

When we objectively test the gender-divide, in the light of the new thinking, no doubt, we find not only physical differences in form and shape between the sexes but also neural differences. However, since ages, these differences were evolved to suit and complement roles between man and woman.

Most of the gender divides and conflicts we find today in modern contemporary societies seem very much cultural ones. Especially, the elements of competitiveness and conflicts, which have replaced the age-old symbiosis and cooperation looks like more cultural than genetic.

Let us consider the very important and core issue of the state of marriages or man-woman bonding for procreation in contemporary modern societies. In most developed societies, divorce rates are almost equal to marriage rates. The developing societies are also picking up the similar trends.

As we zero in to the understanding of the problem in its entirety, it seems clear to us that in modern society, where male and female are considered equal and interchangeable, the female is encouraged to perform all of the male tasks along with her own. She not only bears and raises the children but provides the livelihood as well.

The male, deprived of his traditional contribution to the family as 'bread-earner' and 'security-provider', no longer holds the archetypal exclusive and prime positioning in society and family. It needs to be understood here that any change in one space in society, shall always bring in adjustments in other space.

This environmental change seems to have resulted in instinctive change in male sexual behavior as it extends a license to his instinctive urge for promiscuity (male promiscuity instinct also has early evolutional reason).

As his exclusive and primary positioning in parental role no more not requires him to be in bonded relationship till the kids grow up, it was convenient for him to waive off his self-control and morality and become promiscuous. The women only followed suit and now seem to be on equal footing.

Scientific evidences have it that since early into evolution, a male happened to be in a bounded relationship with a woman primarily because of his compassionate affection for his kids. The very fact that the survival of kids depended on males being in bonded relationships with females, made males stick happily to a family mode.

Even in modern complex societies, this instinct of males is the guiding element in bonded relationships. Many males would happily break off the marriage but they do not because of the kids. Moreover, even when they divorce or separate, males still care about their kids and primarily because of their kids, are often in a desire to reunite with their estranged wives.

The new thinking says that we all need to understand and accept in entirety all those tangible and intangible elements of our mechanism, which makes us behave and act in a certain way. This helps in understanding the problems as we can see them without the burden of the frills of fanciful cultural fabrics and subjective mind.

The new thinking has been insisting on not accepting an individual as the 'viable-unit' of human society. This is the modern contemporary cultural belief, which is proving calamitous. The viable unit of successful human society is always 'male-female bonded pair and their offspring'. This we can accept only when we have the holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective on objective facts of life and living realisms.

Some of us may not accept this all. It is only natural. The factors in our decision-making are both tangible and intangible. We easily accept tangible factors but shall have trouble understanding the hidden intricacies of intangible mechanisms.

We have already discussed as how a multitude of elements and factors within us and outside in wider environment affect our conscious and subconscious mind decision. Accepting this all in holism and assimilative perspective is what we need to do.

We all need to understand and accept; there are natural questions on validity, utility, righteousness, purpose and many other trust-parameters when we sit down to accept or reject an idea or a situation. Skepticism is only natural.

Skepticism however is a good energy, a sure door for wellness. Skepticism energy should however be used not for denial of intangible questions, rather it should ideally be used for 'investigation'. Energies are not to be shunned, rather they should ideally be invited with open arms for investigation. In ancient Oriental spiritual and philosophical traditions, there is a huge emphasis on the importance of the term called 'aatma-anveshan'. It literally means, Self-Investigation.

All elements and factors of life and living, irrespective of its prima facie utility or futility, needs to be investigated. Kindly do not shun them. They need to be accepted and internalized with humility, innocence, affection and compassion, without a shade of ego, self-importance or any type of negativity. Then only we can arrive at this new thinking of holism, assimilation and integration.

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Challenge To Accept, Process And Mechanism Of Objective Mind Consciousness

AS WE TALK OF THE NEED for 'unlearning', as a potent mechanism to "undress" our problems, we have the challenge to face. The process of "undressing" involves the need to be 'objective' to get rid of the burden of 'subjective' fabrics of our mind-consciousness. The challenge is to understand and accept the process and mechanism of being 'objective'.

Since ages, we have followed the old wisdom of philosophy and spiritualism in fixing our benchmarks. Many of us would not like to reject the old wisdom in favor of the new wisdom of science. In fact, there is no need for this. The modern holistic, assimilative and integrative wisdom calls no rejection but only assimilation.

The beautiful reality is that both science and philosophy-spiritualism speak the same about the process and mechanism of 'objectivity'. There is no conflict of ideas. As we talk about it here, we shall see how uniform all ideas are about objectivity.

Ancient Oriental wisdom, enunciated in the most respected work named Geeta, says, the ultimate karma for a human is to become 'nisprih'. The meaning of this Sanskrit language word 'nisprih' in contemporary world is almost impossible.

In Geeta, there is a powerful metaphor of akaam karma, a Sanskrit word. This word is a suggestion about a consciousness, which is unattached with instinctive self. This suggests at a mind-consciousness, under which, even when someone does an act or behavior, the energy of it should never come from its 'purpose' and 'end result'. Instinctive reaction is considered to be energized by the purpose and fruition of end results. Nisprih consciousness keeps it unattached to the 'fruition energy'.

This is hugely confusing, tough to understand. The suggestion is; everything needs to be done but nothing needs to be done for doing it! Everything needs to be done, which is positioned there to be done yet, in doing it, there must never be the notion of 'me' or 'self' involved with it. Even when, we look like involved in doing everything, there must never be the feeling and attachment of 'me' or 'self' in it.

This is mega confusing. The prescription is, 'the beingness, the instinctive-me, the intuitive-self, everything shall be there when something is being done yet, there must never be an 'attachment' with it.

This is a big challenge to keep one's being unattached with the instinct. The trouble is, to do so; one has to be completely sure what this 'instinct' is? What part of it is the share of 'nurture' and what part is purely nature. This gut feeling or soul voice must first be purged of adulteration of 'socialization' and cultural benchmarks, then only one can be sure of the authenticity of it.

The big question is; is it possible to purge the soul voice of such adulterations? Is it possible to segregate the nature-nurture divide? Is the amount of objectivity, which is required for such action possible? Is it possible...!

This leads us to the real and transcendental question of 'what is the wonder of life?'

The ancient Oriental spiritualism suggests, "The biggest wonder of this mortal world seems to be that the truth is neither finite nor established and static, still, every human believes, what he or she understands is the truth and what he or she chooses is the finite-static-established positioning of truth. In addition, there is this infinite and acute desire, urge and endeavor to make this truth prevail and perpetuate on everyone and everywhere is his or her primary duty". Why and how?

The larger point, which needs to be understood is; if 'nisprih' means being unattached, then this 'un-attachment' should be not only from the instinctive 'me' and its actions, but from the truths of the subjective soul voices too. How can one be 'nisprih' if this un-attachment is partial and incomplete?

To be 'nisprih' is a big attainment. Being 'nisprih' means rising above the 'subjective-structures of life and living. This means rising above the "subjective human inventiveness" and "cultural necessities". Broadly, it speaks of the express need for objectivity.

It is a huge challenge to rise up to this level of objectivity. Science says, objectivity is not possible for humans. In fact, it is not possible even for machines. No machine can work on hundred-percent efficiency. In fact, religion too says it is impossible for humans to attain hundred-percent objectivity. Only the explanations vary.

Most human minds have been trained to accept that only one thing has been stationed in the cosmos as completely 'objective'. That is God. That is why; every human has this ultimate benchmark of attaining godliness. Like, it is every machine's pursuit to attain cent-percent efficiency. However, this does not seem possible ever.

If divinity is attainable, then it cannot be the final destination. If godliness is attainable then where is the utility of the benchmark of divinity? Godliness is something, which is beyond the limits of attainment of humanity and that is why an energy of infinite journey.

In religion, objectivity has such a difficult positioning that it is even beyond perception of average humans, let alone it being achievable!

Geeta elaborates the desirability of karma – the 'objective action' in the following way: "Life is ephemeral but not unreal; one needs to be unattached but not detached; being 'nisprih' looks like being recluse but it is not the same; doing without the sense of doing is true action; the action and behavior, which is purged of instinctiveness are true action and behavior; all actions should be like offerings in a yagna (prayer ritual); only that action and behavior, which stands at the assimilative point of tangible and intangible is pure, etc."

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Commonality Of Ideas By Spiritualism, Philosophy and Science on Objectivity

ALL THIS LOOKS LIKE a complex portrayal of confusion and conflict. It has been hinted in Geeta: "To be human is to stand at either end of the two extremes of this conflict (dualism). It is only God who stands in the middle of the two extremes and still, ubiquitous in both the extreme ends (non-dualism). This is some exclusive positioning, which is reserved only for God, unavailable and untenable for humans."

Science attempts to present an easy and understandable definition of this cosmic conundrum and conflict. It says, "Objectivity is not possible for humanity as the very presence of body melts the objectivity. The objective realism and truth changes the very moment it is observed. It is only natural that there shall be difference in 'observer-dependent' and 'observer-independent' realisms. This is the stated position of quantum physics."

Forget and forego the debate and conundrum. Just accept that this cosmic energy of conflict and confusion is not a burden, rather a huge source of perpetuity of joy for all of us.

As ancient wisdom says, "Human inventiveness and symmetrical artistry of playful-metaphorization of this confusion and chaos of life and living realisms into something meaningfully and intuitively enjoyable, in time-space situationalities is sheer joy".

Let us simplify the whole exercise. We all are average common people and for us there is little utility of things if they are this much intricate and tough to do. In fact, we do not have to be into all these troubles of objectivity-business. We just have to be innocently affectionate and compassionate.

An average human does not need to delve deep into these issues. Just be innocently humble to accept that in any circumstances, we would not compromise with these four principles, then, his or her life would be full of joy and satisfaction forever. They are:

  * Discrimination

  * Intolerance & Aggression

  * Greed and self-gratification

  * Ignorance

Being 'nisprih' as enunciated by religion is a long tough process. To ensure that the life becomes a long unending process of joy-journey towards attaining 'Ultimate Objectivity', one just needs to ensure –

He or she would never discriminate against anyone. Shall make tolerance towards all his or her primary virtue. Never allow aggression towards anyone. Shall keep away from greed and self-gratification instincts and life-long make such endeavors that would keep him or her on the unending journey to mitigate ignorance.

That is why; Geeta says, 'All actions must be like offerings at a prayer', which ensures that all actions must be aimed at collective wellness and never towards singular self-gratification. Never be narcissistic about what you know. Knowledge is an infinite journey. Journeying is joy, not arriving. The moment you feel you have arrived, narcissism kills your wisdom.

This is the form of divinity available for humans. This is the preferred journey. As this happens, then, the individual becomes the theatre, performer, audience and the play all at one time. Then, the truth stands there to applause.

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Summary

LET US NOW JUST sum up, in simple and few lines, what we have talked about "undressing" problems to find "naked" solutions:

  * The world we live in is huge and complex, beyond our imaginations and this is why, life is not meant to be easy. Still, we have successfully dealt with all complexities and troubles of life, as we are the best problem solver of the universe.

  * Most of what we see and experience is usually neutral, neither out-rightly good nor bad. This world is not our theatre of good or bad. We are the theatre of what good or bad happen to us.

  * Problems are usually, just the positioning or situation of some elements of our immediate and ambient physical and emotional environment. The solution cannot be outside the elements, which constitute a problem. Often, solutions are just an alternative arrangement of the same elements within a problem.

  * We have the mechanism for solving problems brilliantly but, it works best when we are not in our instinctive 'reactive-mode' but in 'receptive-mode'. The receptive-mode mind-consciousness is our subjective consciousness, which is the doorstep of our true intelligence, which is the problem solver. We need to assess a problem not with 'reactive-mode', but 'receptive-mode' consciousness.

  * This subjective consciousness is the great facility and a definitive edge for humanity, putting us on top of all other species on Earth. However, this subjective consciousness is usually overly "dressed-up" and burdened by the cultural-fabrics of archetypal and popular 'learning'. We need to "undress" our subjective mind consciousness, through the process of "unlearning", as we grow and mature.

  * We have attained great success in mechanical and tangible matters, because of the singularity and objectivity of procedures. In emotional, inter-personal and intangible matters, we have most troubles as we always have plural, subjective and opinion-based procedures. That is why, to be equally successful in later domain, the key elements are tolerance, acceptance and compassion as it allows a holistic-assimilative-integrative mind-consciousness. This works best in the later domain where singularity is calamitous, unlike the former domain where singularity is a virtue.

  * Often, an individual's decision about right and wrong, good and bad is based on very localized factors of ambient culture. This often 'dresses-up' a problem. If one accepts the utility of wider and larger environment, in deciding a value, one shall have larger objectivity. This shall help in seeing a problem in universal perspective, enabling better and quick solutions.

  * Our brain is a genius of solutions but it has its limitations. The larger mechanism of brain is instinctive, an auto-mode functioning, where an individual's subjective consciousness has little control. We need to learn through disciplined practice, the art of reigning in our instincts and subject it to as much assimilative-integrative referrals as possible. This checks intuitive 'dressing-up' of day-to-day problems of life.

  * The decision-making process of mind is affected by multiplicity of factors and even we cannot know which factor prevailed over others in deciding in favor or against a situation. The conscious mind is a small space in mind compared to huge subconscious domain. We need to learn the art of 'unlearning' to prune our subconscious mind of unproductive and archetypal benchmarks, to 'undress' a problem at hand.

  * There is a state of mind-consciousness, which is greatly helpful in attaining this position, which undresses problems and arrives at naked solutions. This state has broad four elements – non-discrimination, tolerance and non-aggression, non-obsession for self-gratification and openness for new knowledge and wisdom.

  * Solutions are essentially a state of mind positioning. The best state of mind is "innocence". This innocence in adult is very different from that in a child. In kids, it is unconsciously engendered out of purity of 'ignorance', whereas in adults, it is a conscious creation of 'wisdom'. Adults attain it after a long process of "unlearning", whereas for kids, it is a natural reward of 'not learning'.

  * This innocence in adults is what I call "The State of Zero", the state of quintessential readiness, the state of 'nisprih' beingness. When it happens; all good and cherished ideals of humanity fall in your lap, they fill your being. It embodies all goodness – honesty, innocence, transparency, selflessness and egolessness and above all the compassion.

  * This innocence, the state of zero, leads you to the ultimate empowerment of self – The Ability to Forgive. When forgiveness becomes the first instinct, it is a sure sign that the stage of readiness has been attained.

  * This state of mind-consciousness accepts very little "problems" and needs very few "Solutions". This is a mind-consciousness, where you accept nothing – no pride, no self, no ego, no 'I' and you give everything as you forgive.

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NOW THAT WE HAVE TALKED about the broad idea about problems and solutions, I am sure, it would be ideal if we also talk about some situations and issues of practical life and living. How we usually deal with them and the problems that these situations buoy up for us. The idea is to talk about the dualism – how on one hand we usually "dress-up" simple problems and how on the other hand we can handle them well by arriving at naked solutions. These life situations and issues may be different and problems emanating out of them also would look different. However, the operative mechanism of the problems and their solutions shall have lots of commonality.

We can see that problems are usually because of our reactiveness and partial perspectives, whereas, the solutions shall come from holistic and assimilative perspectives, brought about by a receptive mind consciousness.

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Elusive Wedding Of Love And Wellness

Wellness is a function of wider poise of person and personality, which includes factors not only cognitive but also emotional. Wellness is the core emotion, the guiding energy of all pursuits of life. Nothing is worth a penny, if it does not anyway enhance our overall wellness-quotient.

A person is supposed to be in complete wellness when there is a balance between the cognitive factors such as income, wealth, comfort, leisure and health as well as emotional factors such as trust, security, integration with family-friends-colleagues, connectivity, stability, sense of desirability and spiritual purpose, etc.

Love, like wellness is also not a singular and isolated emotion. It is a function of so many cognitive and emotional factors. Often, we have a tendency to see and accept only partial aspect of love and wellness. In addition, the two elements may culturally be referred as separate elements but are essentially two sides of the same coin of life. Love is the core prerequisite of larger wellness and wellness alone ensures the onset of the rainbowish colors of love and intimacy. It is our design.

Somehow, it is always easy to 'show off' something, hard to actually have them. Love, like wellness can be flamboyantly exhibitionist; it often is. However, to actually have wellness and love is tough and not given to showmanship or one-upmanship.

Deodorant makes one look 'fresh', he or she may not have taken bath for days. Exhibitionism is 'virtual' realism only. Real wellness, like real love is enduring and seldom tangibly demonstrative. Love, like wellness is intangible realism, not amenable for tantrums of tangibility.

Both love and wellness are emotions needing sincere and disciplined internalization. That is why; we have to be in receptive-mode consciousness, the moment we are in love. All wellness mechanisms need to be receptively taken in by a conscious mind and then absorbed and internalized deeply to make it a habit of the sub-consciousness.

We all have experienced it that prayers are just catalytic tools of the internalization of deeper faith in God. Prayers need to be internalized so that God becomes a part of our subconscious. The consciousness needs churches and temples, as well as prayers and other rituals only until faith is internalized.

Once love and wellness become part of our subconscious, we shall need no conscious and external expression of them as love and wellness shall become our instinctive habit. All other intangibles, like happiness and prosperity are internalized the same way.

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The 'I' and 'You' Between This Poor Love

One small sentence, 'I Love You', is probably the most spoken set of words in the world. However, as the word arrangement suggests, this poor thing Love is 'sandwiched' between 'I' and' You'. An intangible entity caught between two very powerful tangible entities.

Often, the tangibles become more important and the poor love is pushed, rather squeezed in between the two – I and You. How interesting the set of words and their arrangements are. Try this – Keep the 'I' out of the sentence 'I Love You'. It becomes – 'Love You'. This does not change much of the meaning as the expression still connotes – someone is loved. Or, the 'you' is being loved.

Now, keep the last word, 'You' out of the sentence. It becomes – 'I love'. This sounds so vague. It does not mean anything specific. One feels, there must be someone who is the 'recipient' of I's love. Does it mean, 'You' is more important than 'I' if Love has to take place meaningfully? In fact, in Love, 'I' is useless if 'You' is not there. It does not make any fruition.

Often, any action has a subject, a verb and an object. In 'I Love You', there are two subjects and one actionable verb. Often, Love is a casualty between the two subjects. Stronger and more culturally intelligent the two subjects are, greater the chances of love's casualty.

The way out is what the sentence itself suggests – in 'I Love You', 'I', the egoistic self needs to dissolve into the being of 'You' and then, the magic begins. This situation is tough to arrive at. It is true that every single human being wants to be in the perpetuity of love. Still, love is the most elusive and evasive content in the lives of humans.

In contemporary world, love is the biggest casualty not because anything intrinsic has changed between man and woman. The big change is however in the 'subjects' of love – The 'I' and 'You'. Both man and woman have become far more dualistic in consciousness as their cultured mind does not allow them to shed their subjective egoistic consciousness.

That is why, even when love happens, the two refuse to shed their culturally segregated and conflicting consciousness as 'subjects' of love. Love takes a back seat as 'subjects' become the focus of love. Finally, love dissipates and bodies of subjects become the theatre of something taken as love but it is just a mechanism with little or no essence.

Love is so open and available for everyone to experience and experiment. For love to happen and stay, the two subjects have to unlearn and shed the weights of their subjective consciousness. In fact, they have to cease to be subjects. In contemporary world, love does not stay as two subjects in love, not only do not shed their subject tags rather play ingenuous games of mind for one-upmanship of subjective superiority. Love evaporates the same moment.

Love seems to be more a casualty in the hands of women today as they have found a new 'subject' in their newly arrived subjective and dualistic consciousness. This is a sure winner for them in society otherwise, but somehow puts them at some disadvantage in love as even the modern male is in role-transition. Sadly, the gender divide gets its lifeline.

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Why People Becoming Too Difficult To Be Loved?

The world we love so much always has had its troubles and there have been people who attempted to go into the roots of it to make lives easy. Since ages, the wise people have been telling us that most of our troubles are mostly 'manufactured'; either by ourselves or by the ambient culture, we live in.

In academia, there is an acceptance of a worldview, which Colin Mcguin summarizes as: "Human reason is inherently local, culture relative, rooted in the variable facts of human nature and history."

It is simple to understand: Why different people; even within one culture has different reasons to believe and accept that he/she is right. It is basically, "a matter of divergent practices, forms of life, frames of reference and conceptual schemes."

The golden rule of reason and rationality, as accepted now is:

"To be valid, is to be taken as valid and different people can have legitimately different patterns of taking. In the end, the only justifications for belief have the form justified for me". In our daily lives, we always feel, there are people around us, who are difficult to be loved or be just friend with. They seem never to accept and adhere to what others may also feel differently. Commonality and mutuality is anyway tough in modern complex world.

We all just need to be compassionate and affectionate with them. We all know, we live in difficult times. All around us, almost all age-old edifices of values and trusts are crumbling. We also see almost everywhere, established rules and norms of society and state are not always the criteria for success and righteousness. There is rather mass frustration with almost all systems – be it society or state.

In such a living milieu and worldview, where success is precarious and 'short-cuts' of life and living choices become a dire need not only for excellence, but for bare survival; it is only understandable, why many people have developed this calamitously ingenious art of narcissistically justifying their individualistic choices and values.

It is only very natural that a society, where there is little commonality and mutuality of ideals and values, individuals shall be in more conflict and competitiveness. This shall in turn engender loads of problems and troubles, which shall be not real but 'manufactured'.

On a highway, with no established 'traffic-rules' to follow, every driver shall accept his own rules as the 'only rule' and fatal crashes shall be the order of the day. Neither the road nor the car need to be blamed. We have 'manufactured' it.

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Body, A Mystical Master Of Ethereal Artistry

It surely is beyond the horizon of the facility and utility of humanly-invented words. The grammar of body and the artistry of body languages are meant for expressions only through the sublime media of music, dance and painting; words fail the enterprise.

Somehow, when in the pinnacle of the objective and non-associative consciousness, one painfully yet joyously realizes, this mortal body and ephemeral expressions of innate desires have a strange and mystical mechanism.

The body is both a canvas and paintbrush; the body is a mystical mechanism of creating 'paintings' within. The template it paints is truly magical and intangibly mystical. Mystical because, this painting does not only have colors but also has strong and devastatingly multidimensional aromas, energies and rhythms of cravings and ethereal feelings. The body is a mystical master of ethereal paintings of feeling-emotions.

But then, a body also doubles up as the beautifully stupendous canvas; an earthy, musky and tangibly consumptive medium for making the intangible 'paintings' come true. The mysticism around the body as 'painting' as well as 'canvas' emanates out of the accidental evolution of body's intricately real yet randomly unpredictable surrealism.

The mysticism is real as body as tangible medium, hosts the intangible energy of consciousness – the virtual self resides in a real body. This engenders the mysticism and when bodies meet in mystical confusion, it creates the ultimate paintings, the compassionate music and divine dance.

When man and woman meet, when bodies complement as painting and canvas, when bodies meet to create an ethereal mysticism of cathartic confusion, when man-woman bodies enjoin and embark on a mystical journey, nothing but pure, sublime and nobility should remain as witness.

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We Have Become Castles, Blocking Nurturing Emotions

It is the most difficult question, with probably the simplest answer. Why life began and sustained on earth? The likely answer seems to be, because it found one core element here – nurturance. All species on earth still have this element in abundance, but humans!

The best platform of nurturance – the male-female bonding is fast collapsing, blame it on the disastrous culture, which has always corroded the platform.

The battle and wound between men and women runs deep in our collective consciousness and often seems rooted in the very cells of our bodies.

Men and women often find themselves polarized into opposing positions especially when it comes to erotic bonding, emotional expression, communication, and matters of the union of hearts.

The core of these differences is sometimes expressed as "men want hot sex and women want romantic love," when the truth seems to be that both men and women long for synchronized emotional-bonding, satisfying sex and sustainable love. The difference seems cultural than biological or genetic.

Ancient traditions which honor the sacred union of male and female and recognize the importance of balancing the masculine and feminine elements within each of us, as well as in the external world, offer us a model for nurturance.

When men and women shall be freed from culturally imposed stereotypes and shall reconnect their hearts and the body, harmony and sanity is likely to be restored. Growingly, people from almost all parts of globe, with different lifestyles and culture are admitting with aplomb that sadness and loneliness is fast creeping into their lives.

There has also been this unfortunate realization that almost all softer and very nurturing emotions of life are becoming casualty in the wake of fast lives, workloads and too little leisure.

Somehow, it does not seem natural. We can say that because, we all know that for over millions of years, humanity has successfully evolved and excelled because, it has had the repository of a huge range of very nurturing and protective range of softer emotions in the forms of family and society.

The general complain too is that tolerance, affability, humility, innocence of attitude, compassion, mutuality, love and caring, forgiveness et al have been fast becoming scarce in societies and culture. It does not take a genius to understand that these nurturing soft emotions are essential ingredients of our wellness .

A Sufi message says, "Ecstasy is a feeling that comes only when the heart is tuned to that pitch of love which melts it, which makes it tender, which gives it gentleness, which makes it humble." It is very clear that the message speaks volumes on the importance of soft nurturing emotions in the wellness of humanity.

Medical experts say, "The muscular tissue of the body responds to emotional as well as physical trauma by tensing up in a protective reflex. Over time, these tissues become chronically stiff and hard, blocking sensation and energy flow in the affected area, causing diseases."

This seems to points out to the sad fact that we live such a life where we are exposed to tough life, which throws to us stresses and traumas, which in turn makes our muscles contact, blocking the soft and nurturing life energy.

What we need is soft-nurturing emotions of tolerance, affability, humility, innocence of attitude, compassion, mutuality, love and caring, forgiveness et al to ease up and rejuvenate the tense and contracted muscles as well as the very consciousness.

As these nurturing emotions have gone down in content; qualitatively as well as quantitatively, we are unable to feel the natural joys and good emotions of life. This makes us sad, lonely, insensitive, precariously aggressive and even enemy of almost everything soft and nurturing. We get caught in the vicious cycle of sadness and loneliness. We need to get back those soft-nurturing emotions in our lives.

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Not Always Needing, What We Want

Someone said it, "What man seeks is what he wants, and is not at all what he needs". Humans are competitive animal; evolution designed humans this way. He or she needs to win, always, as it is his or her survival instinct.

This desire to win is expressed in intrinsically ingenious ways by his or her ego. Often, the survival needs and 'desires' lead him or her to seek and compete to win. However, what he or she wants/seeks is not always, what he or she needs.

Not many people shall have trouble in accepting the above but, most would admit, the fine line, that separates what one 'wants' from what one 'needs' is almost impossible to ascertain. This is always a trouble for all of us. There is a tendency with all 'intangible' emotions to drift to extremes. The wisdom is in poise, which is always very ephemeral and elusive.

This situation is crucial to be understood and the art of symmetry and poise needs to be mastered. There is a fine line which separates 'poise' from 'psychosis'. On the extremes stand the psychosis, which we all are very prone to but the 'poise' is what we all need to be in.

In our body mechanism too, this dualism is manifested. There is a word called homeostasis, which literally means 'poise'. Homeostasis is the situation of a healthy body and a healthy body has instinctive urge and mechanism to remain around this biological 'poise'. Diseases happen, when this poise goes missing and we hit psychosis.

We also know the fact that it is scientifically acknowledged that humans must be in total unity and poise with his or her environment for his or her own survival and excellence. However, we all know that we are not in poise, be it biologically or emotionally. We have the tendency to drift between extremes, one way or other. This dualism and conflict of life and living needs to be understood for us to strike a lasting poise.

Essentially, what an individual seeks is 'empowerment'. It is his or her natural instinct to aim all its endeavors for personal empowerment. However, what society needs from him or her is collective 'utility'. Often, personal empowerment and collective utility stand in conflict and therefore, the much required 'poise' within and outside us remains elusive.

In these situations, it may be said that what a man or woman wants, if it is in conformity and synchrony with what society needs, then what he or she wants is what he needs.

This in other term means, Individual empowerment must always create collective utility. This ensures a symbiotic poise and symmetry between the individual and society, which in turn ensures and engenders general wellness.

It seems, one single line assertion is, an individual must be constantly advised to recheck his or her 'wants', vis-à-vis the collective utility of the society and environment he or she lives in.

On the other hand, it is also equally important that the societies must also always be liberal and resilient enough to allow a self-recheck of what it 'needs' or what it benchmarks as 'utility'.

This means: both individual empowerment and societal utility need to be evolving in tune with time and circumstances. This ensures poise for all. Tragically, both individuals as well as societies in modern complex world have gathered so much conflicts and distrusts against each other that both have stopped evolving in a symbiotic manner since long, with an eye on cooperation and compatibility with each other. Wellness is a sure and certain casualty in modern environment everywhere.

It seem, this situation has led us all to a situation, where psychosis rules both individuals as well as societies. We already have this situation at hand.

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A New War In A Novel Territory!

From the experiences of daily life, we all know it very well that nothing exists in individualistic isolation. All living beings are in relationship and association with the milieu.

Somehow, what we usually do not accept is the realism that associations are often more important than individual positioning. From examples in past as well as present, we all know that cultures, which encourage individual empowerment in synchronized utility and associative collectivity, survive well and flourish beautifully.

The missing golden 'equilibrium' between individualistic instincts and culturally 'appropriate' behavior is killer of species and their culture. The experts have been warning that the utterly liberal, individualistic, instinct-based modern culture with crumbling societal 'appropriates' is calamitous.

The modern liberal ideology goes against the golden principle, which says, "The unit of human culture is not the individual. It is, instead, the male-female bonded pair and their offspring. This has been true for at least 4 million years."

The modern liberal culture of instant-self-gratification and licentious attitude to attain it at whatever cost, is calamitous. Though, it is still in manageable minority, confined mostly to developed societies, the trend is fast catching up because we live in a highly connected world, where information easily transcend sovereign boundaries, without control.

A culture is the summation of the individual behaviors within a given group. All species have cultures. Each has a specific pattern of behavior. These patterns were designed to enhance species survival. In modern liberal societies, individuals are developing a thinking that they are at war with 'societies' and 'politics' as they have 'vitiated'. There may be elements of truth in it but there is also a great amount of over-statement in it.

The society and state on the other hand too complain of individuals gradually becoming hard to be governed and disciplined. They too have issues with people becoming insensitive to group behavior. The cumulative result of this is a sad reality, which is fast becoming a global trend. The licentious individuals instincts, addicted to instant-self-gratification drives are at war with each society and state first and then this war turns into a battle between individuals.

The age-old war of individual against societal culture has shifted to a new territory. The war is now between 'liberated' individuals. The worst manifestation of this war is the fast aggravating 'gender-battle'. As individuals, both men and women, think of themselves as a 'viable-unit' of the society itself, with a choice for 'no frill-no baggage' life, the family is the first casualty in most developed liberal societies.

This works against the mechanism of natural instinctive wellness, which is the essential design of every human being. We are basically a social animal, evolved since millions of years in a tribe or society. Our wellness and goodness all exist in collective space, where individuals shape their empowerments.

The individual at war with collectivity has unleashed gender battles and family becoming a big casualty. We are ourselves killing our wellness structures.

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Ferraris Of Life, That Do Us In

An old man loved his son very much and one day, he gifted him a shiny new Ferrari. The son was thrilled to death. After collecting his senses, he shouted loud for all to hear in accentuated words – 'I have the best dad in the world'.

The old dad hugged him tight and replied grimly, 'May destiny decide the best'.

Few days later, the son crashed his Ferrari and landed in hospital for good one month. As he gained consciousness and collected his intelligence, he confided to his nurse – 'My dad is the worst in the world. His bloody Ferrari did me in! Why the hell he shoved it on me!'

Every single human being has the right to accept and believe in his own subjective truths. This is our mechanism. The body-mind design has it. Truths for us change, as we stand in instinctive 'reaction' to specific and different life and living situations. There may well be objective and singular truths and facts about all things and realisms but, such is our mechanism that we all shall first accept and believe in our own subjective truths and facts.

Over the years, it was felt that as science would spread its objective and singular facts, the common people shall benefit from it, and gradually, the world shall have one common factsheet as referral for all realisms.

This, however, proved wrong as nothing could change the innate and instinctive mechanism of 'subjective perceptions'. At the ultimate analysis, objectivity and singularity of facts and truths do not matter much. They all shall be accepted and internalized through a mechanism of body-mind, which shall always remain 'subjective'.

As the reality seems today, even objective science and its facts are being 'subjectively internalized' and accepted in 'individualistic preferences'. The trouble is accentuated as, even 'objective science is being aligned to subjective stand-points and now being used as weapon of narcissism'. Someone recently said, "We live in a culture where dull biological platitudes make headlines and irritating scientific clichés win arguments."

We surely need a culture, which embraces complexities and not one, which gives in to simple and often simplistic culture. Science and especially scientific psychology and neuroscience hold as prism for humanity. The pop culture of one-liners and narcissistic personalization is calamitous. The age-old human ingenuity of pop-intrapolation of complex factuality is helping the proliferation of narcissism and psychosis of individuality.

There is also this trigger-happy denial of factuality as folk/pop psychology ensures that people think, they can very well accurately understand and explain their behavior and actions. Most people assume, their experiences and observations make them 'expert-enough' to discount any other explanations, even if it is scientifically validated. Science, anyway, in folk psychology is 'devil's workshop' and deviant ungodly stuff.

That is probably why, those who understand the 'in-built' and 'innate' mechanism of human body-mind, they very affectionately and compassionately understand and accept this 'subjectivity' and the resultant conflicts of minds. However, they extend a warning, as the dad did in the story above – 'intelligent races are suicidal'.

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We Want Trust On The Menu, But Serve Distrust

Simple and straight life has everything in plain and in few parameters, which makes decision making easy and life also very much uncomplicated. However, the sad reality is, life we all are living today is complicated and getting more so. Never ever in the history of human culture, we had everything around us so complicated and conflictingly complex.

Experts warn, "We are exposed to and inflicted with too much information (TMI), too much choice (TMC) and too much technology (TMT). Too much, almost everything around us. We are also being subjected to multiple truths. The media, markets and even leaderships are feeding us a seemingly endless diet of half-truths and lies, which are wrapped in truth-foils.

Almost everyone around seems to want to tell and sell us something – especially his or her own set of 'truths'. Everyone now has a wider media in its hand, as networking and connectivity spreads its reach and penetration in wider society. The big trouble is the contradiction – we want something else from others still, we all do not do the same ourselves. In the environment, which is best described as 'trust-deficit' universe, we wish to have only 'genuine' and 'authentic' but never extend the same to others.

Experts say, "On the one hand we expect people and products to be trustworthy, ethical, real and tell genuine stories about their history. On the other hand, we are ourselves leading increasingly fake lives – filling up lips with Botox, dying hair blonde, enlarging breasts, being virtual on social sites and pretending we're happier or sad than we really are.

This has filled our milieus with two deadly syndromes – hypocrisy and narcissism. Some bunch of people has understood the futility of all this hypocrisy and narcissism and they have moved to simple and uncomplicated life and living choices. We all need to move to simplicity and innocence of un-complications.

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Accept My Gratitude

Writing something is a daunting task as there is always a lurking apprehension of it not being in utility for some readers. I however feel at ease, because of my faith in magnanimity of readers. I am happily sure; you shall forgive if my efforts could not be up to your expectations. Thank you so much for being with me and allowing me to share with you. Wish you an empowered life; with the prosperity of the consciousness.

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About The Author

People say, what conspire to make you what you finally become are always behind the veil of intangibility. Someone called it 'Intangible-Affectors'. Inquisitiveness was the soil, I was born with and the seeds, these intangible-affectors planted in me made me somewhat analytical. My long stint in media, in different capacities as journalist, as brand professional and strategic planning, conspired too! However, I must say it with all innocence at my behest that the chief conspirators of my making have been the loads of beautiful and multi-dimensional people, who traversed along me, in my life journey so far.

The mutuality and innocence of love and compassion always prevailed and magically worked as the catalyst in my learning and most importantly, unlearning from these people. Unconsciously, these amazing people also worked out to be the live theatres of my experiments with my life.s scripts. I, sharing with you as a writer, is essentially my very modest way to express my gratitude for all of them. In my stupidities is my innocence of love for all my beautifully worthy conspirators!

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Other Titles By Santosh Jha

OnlyNess

Literary Fiction: A novella about life-living choices from the perspective of a very successful contemporary woman.

Short Description:

Dumped by her billionaire fiancé, a resplendently beautiful woman, the reigning royalty of Hollywood's dream factory, lands herself in all sorts of woes – hospitalization for slipping pill overdose, bad Press, peer group backstabbing and paparazzi. She escapes to anonymity at India's Yoga capital but the threat of paparazzi follows. A young yogi bails her out and detours her to an unusual world where he introduces her to the super consciousness of 'Onlyness' within her. The redeemed empress unconsciously discovers her true elements being in linearity with that of the yogi and believes, she may be second time lucky. However, more shocks await her.

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Back To Bliss: A Journey To Zero

Literary Fiction: Novel: A Love Story in contemporary culture of conflicts.

Short Description

Battling against hypocrisies, sadomasochism and perfunctory pursuits of pop benchmarks of successes, he refuses the passion-oriented male worldview of karma and life's purposes. Metamorphosed by compassion, that love's innocence fills him with, he opts for a journey that takes him far away from the stupidity of self-worth, calculated in terms of personal utility, individualistic possession and unfettered consumption. Does he arrive?

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Probability

Fiction: Inspirational Romantic story In Contemporary Milieu, with women's perspectives.

Short Description:

He wants this to happen. She is reluctant. He wishes the probability of mutuality to get a last full-blown opportunity to attain fruition and ultimate utility. Her mind is unsure of the validity of the enterprise itself; even as she has nothing against him. Finally, the raw and core instincts of bodies are invited to preside over the missing probability of mutuality. Does it work?

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You Didn't Care

Fiction>Romance>Contemporary Women

Short Description:

Most men want their women bare. However, when women decide to unclothe their consciousnesses off suffocating fabric of procrastination, men run away. A young woman, abandoned by her lover, bares it all for her 'ex' to see through. Because, she still loves him. Men need be in apt audience as a woman resonates her bosom baritone. A 'neurotic' woman's monologue, men need to engage with.

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Nurturance

Fiction: A Novelette about a young woman's viewpoints on contemporary male world.

Short Description:

A young beautiful woman barely in her twenties awaits this one someone, like her mom's bedtime story of the prince riding a white horse, as he is her only hope of nurturance, she desperately needs. She seeks his assuring touches all over her body and soul, especially where the nasty world has lacerated her most. She wants to be taken in, feel happy to be naked in the shine of his golden intent.

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Autobiography Of A Duffer

Fiction: Humour and Wit.

Short Description:

A witty but insightful narration of 'normal' and 'orderly' cultural realisms of contemporary world, from the perspective of a young duffer. This duffer believes; a normal person should know how this world looks to a stupid, whom the world loves to label 'abnormal' and 'disordered', to truly visualize realities of benchmarking. This duffer's wife asked him to make it different; he truly does it!

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Not Man Enough

Fiction: Humour and Wit. Narrative on contemporary gender issues.

Short Description:

The protagonist's advocacy against mass accusation on him being 'not man enough'. He also contests the parallel label of 'not woman enough'. The jury is already out as he puts up his witty advocacy against the pop cultural benchmarks over gender appropriates and massive peer pressure on men and women alike for being 'something enough'. It is for readers to preside on the judgment. He surely needs your vote. Do bail him out!

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Be Lonely, Be Your Best

Short Description:

This book challenges the populist idea that loneliness is a bad and sad thing. Loneliness is rather very facilitative mechanism of body-mind for wellness and personal excellence. It is innate call of instincts for self-actualization of potentials within, to attain excellence. It answers core question as 'What's Wrong' with things around and within us, listing ways to use loneliness for happiness.

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Incidence Of Love: Demystified And Decoded

Short Description:

Million questions in love, about love – How to be sure, I am in love? What does it feel to be in love? Is this true love? Does she/he love me or love me not? What exactly is love? How to be an ideal lover, how to love the best possible way...? All 3Ms – Mystery, Marvel and Magic about love that create 3Cs – Confusion, Conflict and Chaos, now demystified. It is easy, simple, honest and impacting.

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Stupidity Of Be Yourself Viscerality: Unlearning Sexual Unputdownability And Pop Empowerment

Enjoying life, living richly and happily successful is great. However, all attainments and accomplishment are not about life-engineering but 'I-Management'. Primary success is Self-Actualization. Sadly, I or Self is the worst-handled enterprise of humanity. In new millennium, we need to unlearn the archaic yet all-embracing stupidities of self. This 'Be Yourself' I-Expressions need reality-check.

Science as well as spiritualism says, 'Self', this unputdownable sense of 'I' is the greatest mysticism. Still, people are madly in never-ending pursuits of 'self-indulgence' and 'I-Centric' gratifications and attainments. Worse, there is this calamitous contemporaneous prescription of 'Be Yourself', as if 'Self' is the definitive genius of everythingness! Worst, this viscerality is being invoked in celebrity-mode, market-mounted 'I-Iconism' as ultimate empowerment. The progenies of 'Be Yourself' viscerality – solipsism, anti-intellectualism and anti-rationality are unleashing loads of conflicts, confusion and chaos in societies. Time to unlearn the stupidities of 'I'. Time to unravel the malaise of 'I-Iconism'. Time to redeem the true 'I'. Why? How? This eBook has it all.

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Cyclicality Of Causality: Book Of Life-Utility Ideas

Short Description:

Insightful, inspiring and empowering Life-Utility dialogues on – Happiness, Solutions, Intelligence, Love, Dreams, Loneliness, Consciousness, Realism, Life-Choices, Poise, Success, Self-Worth, Excellence, Meditation, Wisdom, Objectivity, Life-Management, Destiny and Gender. Utility of book has got to do with decisive, straight-forward and objectively logical words. Centarlity of theme is of holism, no ingredients of populism and platitude. For people, who have consciousness for novelty and iconoclastic insinuations.

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I Am A Woman And Not Stupidly Touchy About It

I am a woman, but it is always 'I', which shall decide for me 'How I Am A Woman' and not the populist generic identities. Womanhood is a blessing but what 'I' accept 'womanhood' and 'empowerment' as, is definitively a conscious-judicious enterprise of 'power' I acquire through personal initiatives. Man or woman, I'm always a good, amicable, honest, sincere and compassionate person, transcending generic identities. Identity as a woman matters, but personality defines me as a person and constructs my wellness and excellence. 'How I Am' matters more for me than 'Who I Am' as I am an empowered woman, not in emotional-reactive, but objectively logical way.

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Divorced Of Somatic Stupidities And Happily Married

Short Description

If total global costs of failed marriages and divorces all over the world are calculated, it would stand at many thousand billions of dollars. If saved, it can eradicate poverty and starvation from the face of earth. Saving marriages is enterprising social economics. What it costs to save this wastage? What investment saves marriages? Cost in terms of tangibles is negligible. In terms of intangibles; investments for wellness and excellence in marriages are colossal. But then, sanity is always round the corner and it is magnanimously available without any cost to anyone, with a coin of 'acceptance'. Somehow, acceptance is not contemporary intelligence. But then; marriage is primarily an enterprise of series of acceptances, that too mutually, with an eye to unlearn subjective somatic stupidities. Men and women are invited to unravel this mystical mutuality called marriage.

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Why We Flop In Love

Non-Fiction: Science of Love and Intimacy, Relationship Issues and Attitudinal viewpoints.

Short Description:

Love is ideally accepted with three elements of Mystery, Magic and Marvel. The three 'M's' land most of us in inexplicable troubles and pains of love. The magnificent dualism is – love's mystery makes it flamboyantly attractive and joyful. Still, the mysticism engenders loads of confusion, making many of us flop in love. Success of love is in non-dualistic positioning, which is simple and practical realism, most of us refuse to accept.

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Help Your Peace, Time Up For Joy

There is over supply of wisdom for every one of us. Everyone is ever willing to offer advice and prescription of 'shoulds'. However, in contemporary milieus of conflicts, chaos and confusion, for an individual self, there seems no definitive road to happiness. There is but a dependable alternative of personal peace and poise. Milieus cannot facilitate happiness, yet self can live in peace. How?

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Why Do You Want To Change Me?

Non-Fiction: Life-Living Wellness and Personal Empowerment.

Short description:

Accept the question of 'change' and let the magic and marvel unravel. The question of change is the key, which opens the doors of life-living wellness and personal excellence. The book is about unleashing your potential by simply unlocking the consciousness. Won't you open the doors, if someone knocks to deliver the Christmas Cake! Innocence of reception is beauty. Be beautiful and bountiful.

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Say Hello To I: Feel Good To Be In Audience With Yourself

It took Buddha a minute to arrive at this consciousness of 'I', which changed all cognitive acceptances of realism. Same with all greats of humanity. Enlightenment and arriving never takes more than a fleeting few seconds. As 'I' unravels its mechanism and process of being, nothing remains the same. 'I' is the world, 'I' is God, 'I' is doorway to all futilities and utilities. Say hello to 'I'...

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Habitual Hero: The Art Of Winning

Non-Fiction: Science of Success, Life Wellness and Personal Excellence.

Short Description:

In all of us, there is this definite 'winner', the genius of this universe. However, this champion is what we can label as 'Random Warrior', as it wins but not always. We all have the determination, patience, courage, discipline and the mastery to be a sure and sustained 'all-weather-all-season-Hero'. However, as many of us miss the knowledge and acceptance of this 'mechanism of winning', this warrior turns out to be only a 'random' winner, unable to sustain the artistry of winning, to qualify as a 'Habitual Hero'.

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Maya And Leela: Utility In Life's Futility

Non-Fiction: Science of Spiritualism, Life philosophy and Intellectual Connect.

Short Description:

Most of us, living in modern contemporary world of complexities, conflicts and confusion, have questions as what a good and righteous person should consider as 'perpetual-utility' in life, amidst the general feeling of 'futility' of everything around. What is this singular life and living positioning, which can make us live the life in a perpetually joyous state of consciousness, endowed with 'true utilities', shunning away all those 'futilities', which land us in pain and regret?

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I Am God

Non-Fiction: Holistic and Analytical Perspective Building on Divinity Issues.

Short Description:

Avant-Garde expressions on divinity. It internalizes the 3Ms: Mysticism-Marvel-Magic, with a novel & unique perspective of 3Cs: Consciousness-Cognition-Causality. It's about the Registry & Artistry of a Super-positioned Consciousness, which aligns the cardinal elements within Subjective Self, Milieus (within & outside) and Idea of Divinity in singular linearity. If God is in details, it's here.

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Wisdom Of Wellness: Perpetuity Of Poise Of Purpose

Non-Fiction: Personalizing Spiritualism, Life Wellness, Paradigm Building.

Short Description:

One needs to be in lasting physical, emotional and ideational wellness. Tips, pills, and 'shoulds' abound; still, wellness is elusive. Wellness is largely a function of emotional 'poise' of consciousness. Wisdom of wellness is in being the 'master of mechanism', 'internalizing' the multifaceted life-living realisms and then, creating a personalized model of wellness. Nothing 'external' helps.

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Karta: Life-Inspiring Essays On Cognition, Consciousness & Causality

Non-Fiction: Essays on Life-Living Wellness and Personal Empowerment.

Short Description:

The essays in this book unravel the Karta (subjective consciousness) from the perspective of the new thinking of 3Cs – Cognition, Consciousness and Causality. The effort is to make you – the Karta, assimilate the core idea as how a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective of the 3Cs helps you in attaining and enhancing personal excellence and wellness. Makes you meet a new empowered you.

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Bare Basics

Non-Fiction: Essays on Life-Living Wellness and Personal Empowerment.

Short Description:

Essays in this book journey into essentials – the bare-basics of empowering consciousness, life-living wellness & personal excellence. It's Scientific Philosophization. Truth can't be created, it's there to be deciphered. However, consciousness is localized; needs to be challenged to inch closer to decode truths of life. Words have no magic; they however help unravel the wonders of wellness.

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Acceptance: Of Hypothesis Of Hypocrisy In Intimacy

Non-Fiction: Short and Nippy Narrative on Contemporary Cultural Realism of Relationship.

Short Description:

This word Acceptance is so magical, has a world of wellness embedded in it. Sadly, acceptance may not truly seem a contemporary intellectualism. Intellect is rather the brutal killer of innocence and simplicity of acceptance. Worst, this word is definitely always the first casualty in intimate relationships. Acceptance of a simple hypothesis of hypocrisy in intimacy however can be therapeutic.

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Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture

Non-fiction: Youth/teenage Issues of Sexual Behaviour and propriety, Life Choices and Personal Management.

Short Description:

In contemporary culture of hypocrisy, conflict and confusion, where even adults are in a flux over benchmarks of real success and self-worth, the young being advised about sanity and sensibility, lands as big joke for them. The youth needs a worldview, enabling them to see through the hypocrisy and perplexity of pop culture, offering them a date with real intelligence and life realism.

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Young, Restless And In Love

Non-Fiction: Youth Empowerment and Wellness, Inspirational issues.

Short Description:

Young-Restless-In Love is a life-living situation that lands you in randomly probabilistic eventualities beyond your control. The potential this combination unleashes, needs great amount of preparedness and ultimate readiness, as most life possessions are squandered for want of proper usage. This latent energy can destroy your life-living wellness, if not handled dexterously. Read the way out.

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Hey Beautiful, You Are The Hope

Non-Fiction: Women's Empowerment, Feminist Issues and Personal Empowerment.

Short Description:

An essay addressed to modern women of wisdom, aimed at empowering her consciousness to enhance her life-living wellness & personal excellence. As feminism enters its maturity-phase in new millennium, core ideas about true woman, her contemporary mind consciousness and fresh agenda need to be revisited. New-age women hold keys to sanity of humanity, as she is the 'dominant gender' in every sense.

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India Beyond Stampede Of Stupidities

Non-Fiction: Indian Politics and Governance, Cultural Issues, Contemporary Troubles and solutions.

Short Description:

An analytical commentary on how energies of ideas for socio-political changes, create a stampede of stupidities, when they are reactive and participants of change fail to observe assimilative perspectives, compromising the sanity of system, which could weed out loads of aggression, chaos and conflicts from the soil of struggle. A global reality, elaborated with India as a case study.

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Decipher Destiny: Decode God's Will

Non-fiction: Science of Eventualities, Insight into Patterns of Life and Living and Empowering Consciousness.

Short Description:

There is a mechanism to all 'probabilities' in life, which we call God's will. This mechanism has its own energy and patterns of possibilities. Those, who succeed, decipher this mechanism and the patterns, which are there for anyone to see. We attain success and excellence, as we align our personal energy with this energy of the cosmic mechanism. God's will is then in linearity with our wish.

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Redeem & Reinvent The Art Of Lost Wellness

Non-Fiction: Essays on Empowering Consciousness, Life Wellness, Personal Excellence.

Short Description:

The world we live is what it is, neither good nor bad. It is neutral and objective. Wellness is largely individual onus. As we acquire and practice those life skills, which make life wellness a beautiful journey for us, our mind is attuned to them. We then have an auto-mechanism for larger wellness. Time to test our Life Skill Quotient (LSQ)!

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Enter New Year A New You

Non-Fiction: Utility Narrative on Attitudes and Perspectives on New Year eve.

Short Description:

Five simple steps, which can make us a super person, endowed with required skills and personal resources to: Solve our problems; Be a winner in life situations; Be great in love and relationships; Have a personal spiritual wellness model and Accept a worldview that makes us cool and collected, to have a happier and better New Year. The book has been revised and new contents added.

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Wellness And Excellence Mantra For 2017

Short Description:

A New Year has nothing special. However, there is always something marvelously exceptional in your resolve and courage to infuse novelty and creativity in all your enterprises in the next 365-day-frame, to add meaningful dimensions to your wellness and excellence. The countdown for the most productive and propitious year of your life begins. Hit the road. Let this book help you in your readiness.

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भारत का सांस्कृतिक विकास: जरूरत आत्म-अन्वेषण की

एक बेहद मासूम सी गुफतगूं की आरजू, शब्दों की सतरंगी पोशाक पहनने की जिद ठाने बैठी थी। मैंने उसे डराया भी कि शब्दों से संवाद की बदगुमानी अच्छी नहीं। पर जिद के आगे झुकना पड़ा। आपसे गुजारिश और यह उम्मीद भी कि आपकी स्वीकृति उसी प्रेम व करुणा के भावों में मिलेगी, जिस भाव में अभिव्यक्ति की अल्हड़ सी कोशिश है। लफ्जों की इस नौरंगी-नार की पजीराई कीजिए। इस संवाद से दिलरुबाई कीजिए।

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यूं ही बेसबब

यह एक बंदिश है, शब्ददारी की अल्हड़ रागदारी है, सात-सुरों के तयशुदा श्रुतियों की ख्याल परंपरा से अल्हदा आवारगी का नाद स्वर है, गढ़े हुए बासबब लफ्जों से इतर स्वतः-स्फूर्तता का बेसबब बहाव है, ठुमरिया ठाठ की लयकारी के सहेजपनें से जुदा सहज-सरल-सुगम आह्लाद है, मूर्त की दहलीज से परे अमूर्त की अनुभूतियों की बेसायदार अभिव्यक्ति है। आप ही से आसनाई को मुंतजिर है यह 'शब्द-संगीत', यूं ही बेसबब... चले आइये...

टैग- लाईफ फिलास्फी, विज्ञान-मनोविज्ञान, किस्से-कहानियां, संस्कृति-परंपरा, राजनीति-अर्थव्यवस्था, धर्म-आध्यात्म, लोग-समाज।

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शब्द तो जैसे नाव की तरह होते हैं। अपना प्रवाह बना लेना उनका स्वभाव है। मगर, नाव को पानी तो मिले! कोई चलाये तब तो चलें। कहानियां भी शब्दों का प्रवाह नहीं है। उन्हें भी पानी का बहाव चाहिए होता है। भावनाओं का प्रवाह तो सबसे बुलंद और सतत् बहाव है। यह जो नाव चल पड़ना चाहती है, उसको पानी का प्रवाह जिस 'ईश-तत्व' ने दिया है, उसे दुआएं दीजियेगा, गर कहानी पसंद आये । ना आये तो और भी...

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