Life and the Lifestyle
The boundary of life is so extended that it seems to be impossible to define it by our intelligence and wit; we know we cannot touch the perfection but at least we can try our best. Sometimes it is said that meaning of life can be transcendent through spiritual experience as well as by intelligence. If so, what should be the perfect lifestyle for us or close to perfection? Let us evaluate the different forms of existence remaining in our life and then try to find out the answer of the question.
The following block diagram simplifies the communication mechanism of information from inner to outer or outer to inner domain of human existence.
Inner Mind
Self
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Brain Or Nerve S Y S T E M 
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Outer Mind 
Ego
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Vision (Eyes)
Hearing (Ears)
Tasting (Tongue)
Touching (Skin)
Smelling (Nose)
[ Physical
Body ]
Fig A: System of Psycho-somatic Control mechanism
A practical example can interpret the complexity of body-mind scenario is that a silicon chip can exist software program written in zero-one system of writing. Invisible software controls the working tools or elements staying inside the chip, which has no consciousness at all.
Ego-Self axis
Personal Unconscious
Collective Unconscious
Consciousness
Fig B: Jungian Model of Psyche
Many thinkers
believe that love is a conceptual dimension for the creation of physical world.
How this idea comes into being, which is to be lightened in the following way.
It is both hypothetically and practically factual that the abstracts control
the tools of operation driven by some autonomous body free from the effect of
time and space; that existence has the power to create as well as destroy
spontaneously; obviously that is the supreme properties of the autonomous body
which is called as sprit or self. The goal of self is wholeness, the complete
realization of the blueprint for human existence within the context of the life
of the individual. Love is the continuous as well as spontaneous flow of the
transformed aspect of life from the self, transmitting through the collective
unconscious. The notion of love basically attain the following signifying
characteristics:
1)
1)
It needs to use deep sense of adoration and honour for the beloved.
2)
2)
It wants to keep the object of love out of its physical senses.
3)
3)
It acts as well as creates unconditionally and spontaneously, which
attains the universal recognition for all life forms by the true simulation of
self.
4)
4)
It is absolutely unaware of its acts and mysterious propagation, which
is totally out of influence of the external environment.
5)
5)
It never wants to occupy the object of love.
6)
6)
Its boundary of feelings is infinitely extended and never overwhelming
any way.
7)
7)
It is universal and absolutely free from any form of conditioning
generated by ego in the consciousness space of human psyche.
[ Persian Epical Love
Story ]
External consciousness or ego has connection with self in
a sense that it was once the part of the self from the very beginning of life
as the moon was the part and parcel of earth and it was separated by the
gravitational interaction and we see it is now moving round the earth on a
certain axis of spin. We see from the Jungian model of human psyche that ego
stays in the consciousness and is moving around the self. Ego has no control on
the self but self is the supreme command for all elements of human existence.
Love is created and evolved by the self inside the big circle of collective
unconscious involuntarily and that is the reason of acceptability of the action
and products of love by all life forms.
Universal creations of art and culture are basically
generated in the mytho-poetic region of personal unconscious and a very little
fraction of it comes out in the external world. Evolving and originating in the
collective unconscious region of human mind, love also has a very little
capability to express itself in the external world according to feature of
external consciousness. It expresses itself in its own way in a small fraction
of its volume of generation. It obviously stays untouched by the influence of
external consciousness and ego. So we conclude here by the fact that love is a
matter of internal realm rather than external. The lust, which is totally a
matter of external consciousness sometimes, is confused by the sense of love by
mistake. Factually there is a broad contrast between love and the lust. Lust is
a biochemical phenomenon, which is produced and cherished inside the
consciousness region of mind by the external assistance of physical senses and
brain chemistry. It is non-universal in state and driven by oscillating
properties of external limited mind; as a result instantaneously it is infected
by the feelings of overwhelming. But it is certainly true that the act of lust
or any action of ego-consciousness is not free from the control of the self.
It’s a fact that life is a multidimensional aspect. It consists of physical,
psychological and spiritual identity. It randomly uses emotional and logical
(Intelligence) platform to balance the existence of life; all these are the
part of our existence. But unfortunately lust (passion for physical union)
hardly gives the recognition to other existence of life. In reality it is
selfish and try to cherish itself by the direct assistance and support of
ego-consciousness. Actually human or any life form has no real authoritative
identity and from this point of view the metaphysical query has evolved, who
I am!
Same as lust, greed and anger are also selfish, need
direct support of ego-consciousness by using separate identity as ‘I’,
accomplished by ego programming. Ego programming starts its development works
from the very beginning of human life in the region of consciousness. If you
consider the consciousness region, as the ROM then your brain must performs the
function of the RAM. When your biological body stops functioning, your brain
RAM does not have any power to hold the information of life as a result the
physical body must be perished but our consciousness which is the superficial
part of our psyche is non-perishable, keeps holding all the accomplishments,
performed within our biological life span. It is possible to have punishment
for bad deeds and rewards for good deeds within this ego consciousness region
and also it is possible to have a reincarnation by the trigger impulse of the
ever creative self, existing inside the collective unconscious by using all the
information of the blueprint of our biological existence, existing in the
consciousness region. Here religion and mythology have chance to coincide with
the psychology.
Self-interest is the source of all chaos and confliction.
More unconditional action more peace, it’s a fact. Human has lots of choices to
reduce the conditioning in their actions, in the way, how many things I can
do without. Lust or passion for physical union is an essential demand for
human physical existence. Sexual union for human has several objectives,
continuing procreation, to build social infrastructure and physical pleasure.
It includes ecstatic orgasmic sensation to indicate the communication with
personal unconscious. So many things are associated with sexual union. We know
that the thing, which is used, can be abused; for lust it is also true.
Question may arise, when sex becomes fatal and destructive? If we keep open the
door of our intelligence, we can experience the fact that, when ecstatic
orgasmic sense loses its communication with the unconscious of the mind, it
becomes captivated by the ego-consciousness, which is enough to be the action
of evils. Then the question is obvious, is there way to transform our lust into
ego-selfless activities?
Let me tell you a story, it may be a legend or a
historical legend about anger free from self-interest or you can say it a
selfless anger. Let us see how it works in the story. Once upon a time there
was a fight between two people for the dispute of a slave man. One man was
fighting just to free the person but the other man was fighting to make the man
slave for his own. The former was fighting selflessly but the later was
fighting for his self-interest. The disputed man was a helpless free man. It
was a fierce duel fought with swords. All on a sudden the selfish man was
defeated, fell on the ground, lost the sword and the selfless man got on his
chest to kill him. The fallen man threw saliva in the face of other person out
of hatred. The selfless man got more angry, his face got more red, he thought
something for a while and set the selfish man free. The selfish man was so
surprised, he ever did. The fallen man asked the selfless man about his strange
action during the fight. The selfless man began to explain, I have no personal
vindication on you, and some responsibilities on that helpless man led me to
fight with you without any self-interest. If you surrendered and gave up your
dishonest plan of making the man a slave, I must set you free, never fought and
made friendship with you. But when you threw saliva in my face, some personal
anger grew in my mind, which might detract me from my selfless position, that’s
why I gave up the plan to kill you. Well then, what we get from the story? It’s
clear that ego-selfless anger is possible and if that is possible then selfless
greed and selfless sex is also possible.
[ Middle Eastern legend]
……To be
continued.