It brings forth violent agitations, strikes that paralyse the industries and causes small and big wars. "Prevention", it has been rightly said, "is better than cure" and, so, the wise solution of all this would be to observe the noble principle of Brahmacharya-Continence-so that man's better health and spirit and stamina is used for higher and nobler causes.Īgain, anger it is that causes man mental tension, nervous disorders, emotional disturbances and family broils and rocks the nation with many disorders. The situation has become explosive due to baby boom. An analysis of the situation would show that most of the problems today, whether in the sphere of the family, the nation or the world stem from any one of the six main kinds of perversities or uncultured tendencies of mind.įor example, the sex-lust in man has resulted in the over-sized families, in thousands or millions of uncared-for and unwanted children, and in unemployment in the Nation and, so, in the world to-day, we have the grave problem of over-population with its economic implications and social and other ramifications. This has caused him a grave emotional stress and the latter, in turn, has given rise to many problems in the sphere of the family, the nation and the whole world. Man's mind today has become vagrant and wild. Just as we chop off the insulating material from wires in order to join them, we have to withdraw from our body in order to establish a link with God. A Yogi is conscious of himself as a soul and of God as the Supreme Soul. This is what is known, in one word as Yoga. The ultimate highest type of consciousness, which a yogi in the real sense of the term attains to, is the super-consciousness, and one's mind is turned to the Supreme Soul who is Incorporeal. These devotees may not be conscious of their own gross body or of the person they worship, yet their mind has the consciousness of the subtle body of those whom they worship. This may be called 'the subtle consciousness'. During those hours of devotion, they are a little above gross-consciousness, and they feel elevated and uplifted. Other people, when engaged in their spiritual efforts, are conscious of subtle deities or the progenitors of their religion in their subtle form. This may be called 'the intellectual consciousness'. Yet the ideas with which their mind is occupied are connected directly or indirectly with the objects of this gross world and have something to do with the body. At that time, they are not conscious of their gross body, and so they forget about their bodily relatives, their homes and their bodily needs. Intellectuals, scientists and the like in their research work, concentrate their minds on abstract ideas. Some people wrongly identify the self, the conscient soul, with the body and brain, which is merely like a computer. The folly of man, however, is that, playing his parts on this World Drama-stage, he has come to identify himself with the gross body, instead of realising that he is a soul and the body is just like his outer garment. However, in her mind, she is not oblivious of the fact that, in reality, she is not Indira Gandhi, but only her mask makes her appear like the latter. For instance, if an actress is called upon to act as Indira Gandhi, she may use a mask to look like Indira Gandhi to the spectators. He plays his allotted role on the drama stage. The example of an actor can be cited to clarify this. This means the same thing as 'body-consciousness'. The first among these, which is common to almost all, is the gross-consciousness.
All men, in this world, without any exception, belong to one category or the other out of these. It has been observed that there are, mainly, four types of consciousness.
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