Wisdom Of Wellness: Perpetuity Of Poise Of Purpose by Santosh Jha (self help books to read .TXT) 📕

It is like; in an exam, you know the answer of a mathematical question and you write that in the answer sheet but the examiner would not give you any marks for that. You need to write down the entire process of how you arrived at the right answers. Just knowing the right answers fetches no marks. Even in life, we think we have the answers but as we miss the right process, results are disappointing.

This has always happened to a few great minds in human civilization; they knew right ‘answers’ but not the right ‘process’, none of their fault! The mechanism could not be known to them. That is why; there came the trilogy of ‘known-unknown-unknowable’ premise. Those who truly arrived at the right answers could not detail the right process and that is why they said, ‘real wisdom is only revealed to individuals and cannot be converted into a collective knowledge for all’. It is unknowable but can only be ‘revealed’. This proposition still holds good for larger humanity. But we now have the knowledge of mechanism, to lay down the right processes for the right answers.

The larger humanity accepts this ‘known-unknown-unknowable’ premise as truth – be it religion, spiritualism, philosophy or psychology. It resulted into a very beautiful but also very dangerous proposition for humanity. Those who arrived at the wisdom and when right answers were revealed to them, it was only very natural and instinctive that their minds were filled with compassion as they could see the larger humanity suffering partly from lack of resource but largely because of widespread and deep ignorance.

They felt so full of compassion to see that ignorance is making the very potent and positive ‘energy’ of conflict into a potent weapon of mass destruction and resultant pain and misery. They chose a way out which, like conflict, created more chaos and confusion than order and peace, which was intended.

Many of those, who arrived at right answers but did not know the process, chose not to speak. They were never sure, what was revealed to them were actually right or not as, they could not establish its procedural veracity. As they say, ‘the wise is never sure and a stupid is always’. The wise is always responsible.

Many of them were also fearful of the social backlash, as even now, larger humanity is full of vengeance and violence for non-conformists. Still, a few chose to speak, mostly out of compassion for the larger ignorance of wider humanity. However, it was impossible even for them to put the wisdom into words that larger humanity could understand and accept. Therefore, what they said was mostly in a language of ‘metaphors and symbols’. Why they chose to say it all in metaphors and symbol? It has a reason.

Very early in human evolution, when humans had not even developed language, some of the more evolved brains could detect and establish that there was a pattern all around them in immediate nature, which they could decipher. It was revealed to a few. The later humans also understood it and they chose to express it in metaphors and symbols. Usually, early metaphors were derived from nature. As language was developed, they put up language metaphors.

It is understandable as metaphors were most easily replicable even for an un-arrived brain. The knowledge of process facilitates replication. It had to be as there was a discernible pattern of cosmos, which were replicable in nature. Even later, when language was developed quite well, the metaphors took the shape of verse not prose, as brain would accept the verses more easily. That is why, all ancient human documents or oral traditions of wisdom were written in verse style. The metaphor model also shielded the wise from societal backlash as these models were above the popular languages.

Metaphors are replicable patterns and they are all around us to understand easily. For example, we are told, the life is like a jungle and we have to make our own roads to success by clearing the bushes and trees. And how this success comes? This comes when we as a brain, prune or unlearn some of the info of our subconscious as well as the cultured mind and create a path of higher consciousness.

There is also an Oriental spiritual metaphor of the world being a ‘maya-jaal’ (plexus of senses). This matches with the scientific pattern of brain functioning in which brain creates a huge branching network of axons, dendrites and synapses. A good and rational human being, a prudent mind has to rise above this network created by a subconscious mind with the help of higher consciousness, to engender new synaptic avenues. We are all told how most get lost in this jungle and few succeed in creating the right path.

They chose metaphors because brain accepts most things as pictorial and relates it as templates. That is why, metaphors, which abound in nature around us and can be seen from bare eyes, were chosen. Eyes feed large majority of sensory inputs to the brain.

Despite the worthy compassion of the ancient wise men and their brilliance in selecting excellent metaphors and symbols for laying out the processes of the wisdom they acquired, the average human could not benefit as the processes were very subjectively received. Scientific answers, when laid as procedures have singular and objective reception by all minds and that is why, the technology is universal, even while languages are different.

As these ancient metaphors and symbols lacked objectivity and singularity of reception by all minds and every individual mind accepted them in its own subjective interpretation, they could never be replicated by the society at large. These rather engendered multiplicity of expressions and actions, creating bad replica in the forms of calamitous rituals, which now are huge burdens for larger humanity.

The metaphor system of wisdom dispensation was good only for the arrived brains but for most, the majority of the common masses, even this metaphor was a matter of great misunderstanding and conflict. That is why; ancient wisdom is the most misinterpreted and bears more conflict of mind than order. Religion and spiritualism remain confused and conflicting domains, ridden with precarious rituals, all competing to be the right one, at the cost of the denial of others.

Sadly, as is with almost every human enterprise, some of the unscrupulous elements of society at all times, used this confusion, conflict and misinterpretation for their own petty and selfish ends. The religion, spiritualism and philosophy have always fallen on the hands of some of these elements and some confused people.

The humanity has always suffered. These selfish elements converted these meaningful metaphors into set of rituals, which were masterly designs to suit individuals, and a group of individuals who wished not religion but its ownership. Wider ignorance of humanity made it all very easy, they still are.

It is truly sad that the original version of the ancient wisdom, especially of religion and spiritualism may not be present today, as human instincts are designed such a way that in long use, any wisdom is degenerated. But, if we read the ancient wisdoms with a scientifically objective mind, compassionately making allowances to subjectivity of artistic expressions and time-tampering, we can easily see that core ideas of all wisdom, subjective or objective has a common ground.

What today we see as various forms of religion and philosophy very much looks like the ‘culturally run down’ versions of the original. In addition, we have to admit that the basis of ancient wisdom was empirical observations only and then, the knowledge base of objective, measurable and proven parameters were not available. That is why, there had to be some subjective leeway in conclusions drawn. The pop mystic, the new spiritual you should discount this when accepting the ancient wisdom through whatever resources available now.

Still, religion as well as philosophies observed common factors like, there is ‘one life’ as despite forms being different, the ‘soul’ in all creatures is one. In the eyes of ‘God’, everyone is equal; be it a human or an insect. Life (soul) cannot be created nor can it die, it just changes forms; soul taking up new bodies like wearing a new clothe. The ultimate value and goodness of humanity is love, compassion and universality for all creatures as this is the basis of collective excellence. Etc.

All these facts are what science also accepts, though the difference is in the interpretation of what is ‘God’ and ‘soul’ and their functional relationship with universe. What religion and philosophies talk of ‘higher value’ for humanity, science accepts as ‘instinctive intelligence’.

Religion and philosophies speak of man’s goodness in being in complete and objective control of its senses and instincts to be in the light of ‘God’. Science also speaks of the same ‘control’ requirement to understand the instincts and be the master of its intuitive urges. The ancient metaphor of human life as a chariot with six horses and consciousness being the driver of the chariot is common sense for religion, philosophy as well as science.

All wisdom accepts that humanity is better off only when individual curbs its instincts (instant self-gratification) in favor of society and society in favor of nation and nations in favor of world. Wisdom in all its forms speaks of importance of collective over individual self-gratification instincts. The contemporary culture of liberalism and market economy makes individual and its instinctive instant self-gratification bizarreness the center of all values. This is against the core values of science as well as religion and philosophy.

The huge benefit now humanity has that all wisdom, value-systems, cultural-requirements and collective-mechanisms can be tested on the singular basis of the proven, measurable and objective facts of science, which is essentially what core religion and philosophy say. We have now begun to know our body and brain well even though there is an unending knowledge.

In modern contemporary world, it would be even better if one uses the energy of skepticism and doubts all. Nevertheless, one must not ‘reject’ anything out-rightly or show them a close door. Doubt them, re-check them, correct them if you find them wrong but not ‘reject’ them. It is a humble suggestion that mind’s value-summation shall definitely be more inclined towards this desirable ‘singularity’, if old wisdoms of religion and philosophy as well as the new wisdom of science are accepted in a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective. We shall then find, every wisdom in its core has similar ideas to offer. There is actually no contradiction and conflicts between wisdoms.

The dominant theme of our universe is accord, not discord. At the core of every ‘idea’ of discord is the ‘matter’ of accord. Conflict is just a ‘peripheral’ notion. The centripetal force of self-analysis always takes you to the ‘core’ of cooperation and coexistence.

In the post world war era, researches and surveys admit that the world has become a better place to live and humanity over all have evolved to better and higher cultural traits. We have now entered an era of consciousness where our collective and integrated wisdom, led by modern and scientific knowledge but assimilating the old wisdoms, is making us move towards excellence and larger wellness. This is the new spiritualism. It never rejects, but assimilates.

This new spiritualism is a beautiful mix of ancient and modern wisdoms. This new spiritualism breathes in new thinking, this new mindset, this new culture of an integrative and assimilative consciousness of modern humanity.

This new spiritualism, which objectively accepts all lofty ideals of ancient wisdom but approaches them with a scientific consciousness can lead to a new world order where we all accept larger goodness of humanity with a far more open and non-dualistic mind. Every individual can contribute to hasten up the process of engendering of this new world order.

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