Positive Perception

Positive Perception

Human being learns very fast and starts making adjustments with the way he reacts and responds to this outer world. In this process he starts to build an inner world of himself.  He does everything in his capacity to keep this inner world satisfied.  This inner world i am talking about is the world filled with Fear, Desire, Lust, Passion, Urge, Cruelty and many other ramifications of the mind. All these identities are to be fed with their required inputs regularly.  If a person forcibly makes any of them starve, they come out and dominate.  They start giving him spasms, just like when a person who stops taking drugs suddenly.

A trained mind can take these things easily and hence, a human being as intelligent he is, starts training his mind to keep up with the outer world and simultaneously with his inner world.  He convinces his inner worldly requirements by giving them assurance of making available the required situation.  He waits for it and then when it is time, he suddenly transforms from a normal social being to a very strange person, who is very different, a person who looks strange and foreign and a person who you cannot relate to. 

It is strange but very true a fact that we are all having this problem but, in varied proportions.  We have our wants for our own reasons but we dare to share it to our world outside.  We store them deep in our subconscious.  

Many of us have common traits which are innate to us, v.i Fear, Anxiety, Selfishness, Comparing attitude and sort of. These are very common and at times when the situation suddenly changes and goes out of hand we can observe these characters showing up.  The person concerned desperately wants to hide this attitude of his, but, due to the sudden change in the situation, his unpreparedness shows.  

These innate characters are those we should be concerned of when analyzing a personality and not the established social identity.  

A tough job, but, some good research has been done in this area, wherein, one can ascertain a human beings innate character by following his gesture patterns and by combining them to arrive at a particular trait.  

However, this is not perfected, since people have also mastered to portray gestures.  It will be difficult to analyze these professionals who have mastered the art of conning. 

However cunning a person is, when he is pushed to his limit, he surely will display his original or shall we say his innate behavior.  

Let us take a simple case, 

A person while driving meets with a simple accident. He first shouts at the other rider. But, once he realizes that the other is strong physically or he has more support, the language and behavior changes and he becomes submissive. He comes into the mode of compromise from the earlier mode of demand.  

This happens to everyone with very little exception.

Then why do we do this.  Why do we show aggressiveness on weaker and submissive people and why do we ourselves become submissive when the table turns?  

This case clearly shows that we act depending on the situation we are in and there is no fixed pattern.  

Man is trying to understand everything outside and tries to make it suitable for his living, but, never puts his efforts in realizing the type of a person he is and try to change the way he perceives this world.  This one transformation will make a sea change.  

He will start perceiving this world very differently.  He will be able to understand each situation by its merits and be more humble in handling it.  

The requirement of the hour is to dwell deep into our mind and soul and try to cleanse ourselves. Train our minds to perceive this world from a positive perspective.  The whole world will look beautiful.  All this ugliness of pseudo mannerism will fade away giving way to Innocent Beauty

Grooming One's Intellect

Grooming One's Intellect

It's innate that everyone loves his face.  In fact loves himself.  He grooms himself to put up a good appearance in the world of perceptions.  In social gatherings most of the conversations start with "Oh, look at you, you look stunning" or "Have you gained weight recently?"  or "You  look  out  of  place,  you require having dressing sense".  These opinions make a person unknowingly concentrate more on  his  looks and appearance. Since, this is more in women folk generally they get immersed into it so deep that, they become specialists in appearance counseling.

Men get into body building, show off, buying extravagant gadgets, etc., which they hope  will  upkeep  their status of youth in their circles.

This, since has a very big  impact on  an  individual  from the  date  of  his  birth,  he  really  thinks  that  the appearance or looks of a person is the utmost important factor.

Generally, we stick to our routine every morning.  We  brush our teeth, take  bath,  scrub  our  bodies  clean using our favorite soap, comb our hair, get dressed up, a minimal makeup in case of women, have a sumptuous breakfast, put on our best shoes and off we go to our offices.

All this time we were in the  process of grooming our physical self and have forgotten  the  intellectual  self which is really who we are. The importance given to this physical self over shadows the intellectual self.

It will be apt at this juncture for me to give a small example: -

This  is  a  well  known story of  a shepherd who went  on to marry a  princess, who  was deceived  by the minister, who made the shepherd dress like a Sanskrit Scholar.  That night, the  princess  comes  to  know about the shepherd when he spills the beans by talking to her. The  princess  feels  deceived.   She  in  her anger tells her newly married husband to sit in front of the idol of Goddess Kali and ask her for knowledge.  Innocently the shepherd does what is told. I hope everyone knows the later part of the story.  The shepherd is non-other than the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.  Once he gained the knowledge or Jnana, he was recognized as a great scholar.  No one gave any importance to what he wore or how he lived.

It will be the best day in a person's life when he is recognized for what he intellectually is, rather to what he looks like.

So  it  is  our  responsibility  to  groom  our  intellectual  self  thrice  every  day.  This  in  our olden days was performed  as  sandhyavandana.  It  was  done  three  times  a  day  to  cleanse ourselves  from  any  ill/evil thoughts. Let's now start this practice of grooming our intellectual self and start talking to ourselves.

Do we want an external life where we will only perceive things through our five senses or do we prefer our mind, intellect and consciousness to get involved in the process of perception?

Now it will be easy for us to understand why, we give importance to taste, colours & design, music, feeling of touch and fragrance.

Lingering  towards  all these  physical entities  becomes lesser if the intellectual self starts to blossom.  The perception of food as a required source of energy and not a medium to enjoy the sense of taste will set into our mind.

Likewise  all  the  other  four  senses  will  come  under  the  control  of  our intellect and our consciousness, making us more oriented towards bigger goals.