MIND DETERIORATES

I saw a dead body beings carried away to be burnt. It was wrapped in bright magenta cloth, and it swayed with the rhythm of the four mortals  who were carrying it. I wonder what kind of impression a dead body makes on one ? Don’t you wonder why there is deterioration ?

You buy a brand new motor, and within a few years it is worn out. The body also wears out, but don’t you inquire a little further to find out why the mind deteriorates? Sooner or later there is the death of the body, but most of us have minds which are already dead. Deterioration has already take place ; and why does the mind deteriorate ?

The body deteriorates because we are constantly using it, and the physical organism wears out. Disease, accident, old age, bad mood, poor heredity – these are the factors which cause the deterioration and death of the body. But why should the mind deteriorate become old , heavy, dull ?

When you see a dead body , have you never wondered about this ? Though our bodies must die , why should the mind ever deteriorate ? Though our bodies must die , why should the mind ever deteriorate ? Has this question never occurred to you ? For the mind does deteriorate – we see it not only in old people , but also in the young.

We see in the young how the mind is already becoming dull, heavy , insensitive ; and if we can find out why the mind deteriorates, then perhaps we shall discover something really indestructible. We may understand what is eternal life , the life that is unending , that is not of time, the life that is incorruptible , that does not decay like the body which is carried to the gbats, burnt and the remains thrown in to the river.

Now why does the mind deteriorate ? Have you ever thought about it ? Being still very young – and if you have not already been made dull by society , by your parents , by circumstances – you have a fresh , eager , curious mind. You want to know why the stars exist, why the birds die, why the leaves fall, how the jet plane flies; you want to know so many things ….

Continues …

REAL REFORMERS

One of the many problems confronting all of us , and especially those who are being educated and must soon go out and face the world, in this question of ‘ Reform ‘.

Various groups of political parties and reformers of very kind – are concerned with trying to bring about certain changes in the world , changes which are obviously necessary.

Although in some countries there is a fair degree of prosperity, throughout the world there is still hunger , starvation ; and millions of human beings have insufficient clothing and no proper place to sleep. And how is a fundamental reformation to take place without creating more chaos, more misery and strife ? That is the real problem, is it not ?

If one reads a little history and observe present – day political treads, it becomes obvious that what we call reformation , however desirable and necessary, always brings in its wake still other forms of confusion and conflict; and to counteract this further misery , more legislation, more checks and counter – checks become necessary.

Reformation creates new disorders; in putting these right, still further disorders are produced and so the vicious circle continues . This is what we are faced with and it is a process which seems to have no end.

Now how is one to break through this vicious circle ? Mind you , it is obvious that reformation is necessary , but Is reformation possible without bringing about still further confusion  ? This seems to me to be one of the fundamental issues with which my thoughtful person must be concerned. The question is not what kind of reformation is necessary , or at what level, but whether any reformation is possible at all without bringing with it other problems which again create the need of reform.

And what is one to do in order to break up this endless process ? Surely it is the function of education , whether is the small school or in the large university to tackle this problem, not abstractly, theoretically not by merely philosophizing or writing books about it by actually facing it in order to findout how to solve it. Man is caught in this vicious circle of reformation which always needs further reform , and if it is not broken up our problems can have no solution.

So what kind of education, what kind of thinking is necessary to break up this vicious circle ?

Continues … next saturday 29 Jan 2010 

‘ Individual Character Pre- analyze for Marriage and Psychological solutions for earlier divorce decisions.’

We found through our long counseling experience with a few basically common elements for earlier divorce as :

1. Lack of knowledge in selection of life partner in love marriage as well as arranged marriage.    Sensational selections in love and old principles followed in arranged marriage are key points in earlier divorce.

2. Lack of understanding in values of opposite sex . To understanding our life partner we must realize their brought up with their family atmosphere, surely that reflects in their exposures in all manner.

Logicalness - aggressive reaction against life partner’s common human errors leads to quarrel and impact in negative manner.

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We are approaching with our constant analyze of psychological based counseling approaches. So we plan to introduce our ‘ Individual Character Pre- analyze for Marriage and Psychological solutions for earlier divorce decisions.’

Because family is a beautiful concept. Preserve it for our next healthy generation.

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BUYER BEHAVIOUR

                            
To understand the buyer , and to create a customer through this understanding , is the main purpose of buyer behaviour studies. The time and effort spent on this relatively new discipline have been of enormous magnitude. And every buyer – study has unfolded some new dimension of this discipline. The subject has been approached and analyzed from different angles and under different premises. Different inferences have been formulated. But the subject too complex to beat, still remains a theorem without a proof.

What motivates the buyer ? What induces him to buy ? Why does he buy a specific brand from a particular shop ? Why does he shift his preferences from one shop to another or from brand to another ? How does he react to a new product introduced in the market or a piece of information addressed to him ? What are the stages he travels through before he makes the decision to buy ?

Continues with new techniques …        

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HUMAN ENERGY

                                      

One of our most difficult problems is what we call discipline, and it is really very complex. You see, society feels that it must control or discipline the citizen, shape his mind according to certain religious , social, moral and economic patterns.  

Now is discipline necessary at all ? Please listen carefully, don’t immediately say yes or no . Most of us feel, especially while we are young , that there should be no discipline , that we should be allowed to do whatever we like, and we think that is freedom. But merely to say that we should or should not have discipline, that we should be free , and so on has very little meaning without understanding the whole problem of discipline.

The keen athlete is disciplining himself all the time , is he not ? His joy in playing games and the very necessity to keep fit makes him go to bed early, refrain from smoking, eat the right food , and generally observe the rules of good health. His discipline is not an imposition or a conflict, but a natural outcome of his enjoyment of athletics.

Now does discipline increase or decrease human energy ? Human beings throughout the world, in every religion, in every school of philosophy, impose discipline on the mind which implies control, resistance, adjustment , suppression; and is all this necessary ? If discipline brings about a greater output of human energy , then it is worthwhile, then it has meaning , but if it merely suppresses human energy, it is very harmful, destructive. All of us have energy, and the question is whether that energy through discipline can be made vital, rich and abundant or whether discipline destroys whatever energy we have. I think this is the central issue.

Energy will flow …

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TRUE EDUCATION

The ignorant man is not the unlearned, but he who does not know himself, and the learned man is stupid when he relies on books, on knowledge and on authority to give him understanding. Understanding comes only through self – knowledge, which is awareness of one’s total psychological process. Thus education , in the true sense, is the understanding of oneself, for it is within each one of us that the whole of existence is gathered.

What we now call education is a matter of accumulating information and knowledge from books, which anyone can do who can read. Such education offers a subtle form of escape from ourselves and like all escapes , it inevitability creates increasing misery. Conflict amd confusion result from our own wrong relationship with people, things and ideas, and until we understand that relationship and alter it, mere learning , the gathering of facts and the acquiring of various skills, can only lead us to engulfing chaos and destruction.

As society now organized, we send our children to school to learn some technique by which they can eventually earn a livelihood. We want to make the child first economic position. But does the cultivation of a technique enable us to understand ourselves?

While it is obviously necessary to know how to read and write, and to learn engineering or some other profession, will technique give us the capacity to understand life ? Surely technique is secondary ; and if technique is the only thing we striving for we are obviously denying what is by far the greater part of life.

Life is pain, joy, beauty, ugliness, love, and when we understand it as a whole , at every level, that understanding creates its own technique. But the contrary is not true : technique can never bring about creative understanding.

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PURPOSE OF LIFE

 

The significance of life is living. Do we really live , is life worth living when there is fear, when our whole life is trained in imitation, in copying? In following authority , is there livening ? Are you living when you follow somebody, even if he is the greatest saint or the greatest politician or the greatest scholar ?

If you observe your own ways, you will see that you do nothing but follow somebody or another. This process of following is what we call “living” , and then at the end of it you say , “ What is the significance of life ? “  To you, life has no significance now ; the significance can come only when you put away all this authority. It is very difficult to put away authority.

What is freedom from authority ? You can break a law. That is  not the freedom from authority. But there is freedom in understanding the whole process, how the mind creates authority, how each one of us is confused and therefore wants to be assured that he is living the right kind of life. Because we want to be told what to do, we are exploited by gurus, spiritual as well as scientific. We do not know the significance of life as long as we are copying – imitating – following.

How can one know the significance of life when all that one is seeking is success ? That is our life ; we want success ,we want to be completely secure inwardly and outwardly, we want somebody to tell us that we are doing right, that we are following the right path leading to salvation…all our life is following a tradition, the tradition of yesterday or of thousands of years, and we make every experience into an authority to help us to achieve a result. So we do not know the significance of life. All that we know is fear – fear of what somebody says, fear of dying, fear of not getting what we want, fear of committing wrong, fear of doing good. Our minds are so confused , caught in theory that we cannot describe what significance life has to us.

Life is something extraordinary. When question arises from someone “ What is the significance of life ? “ he wants a definition. All that he will know is the definition, mere words, and not the deeper significance , the extraordinary richness, the sensitivity to beauty, the immensity of living.

The question of “ What is life ? “  will continues on next week.

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