Our conscience is a result of our upbringing, education and experiences. It looks reasonably fortified at the outset but its weak defense gets exposed when it comes under the attack of desires. Its vulnerability is exposed and we are stripped of our virtues in no time.
Chapters of religious scriptures and the morality lessons from the teachers and guardians,give us our basic thought process, our parameters of good and bad, our reasons to love and hate, and the power to discriminate between right and wrong.
Our mind sets are conditioned and are then frozen in a closet. The journey of life and the junctions of our experiential journey only reiterate our hackneyed scholastic wisdom. We claim to be forward looking people but we are most of time seeing our future wearing the glasses of past. We welcome learning but only in the predetermined colonies of our mental township.Even though the momentum of compulsive academics sometimes tries to tread the unconventional, very soon it settles for the customary avenues, apparently they are more fertile for the monetary crops. Risks are avoided, experiments are discouraged and path breakers are condemned and as a result we continue to live in a walled society, generations after generations
Our Conscience is the most vocal shield in our system and yet in absence of any maintenance contract or absolutely no updating of anti-virus protections, it becomes an outdated and incompatible with the daily dose of life updates, still we carry with our worn out conscience…we refuse to grow. Our moralities get into the conformist mode and that is where we start writing the last chapter of our life…the living obituary. The first and the most
Important aspect of growth is to break the existing model and make a new one to meet the new demands and this process goes on….Is it that simple? is the most inevitable question. My next novel Reincarnation of the Conscience will dwell into many such questions and will suggest answers through its characters, plot and philosophy, Infact, I as an author of this book would be happy if it makes you ask many more questions from life…so that your remaining part of life gets an assignment.
Reincarnation of the Conscience is a story about three men who decide to change the course of their life when they had no apparent reason to do so. Their path breaking efforts brings in front of them unprecedented situations, intriguing people and uncertain spheres. Still they come out winners. In the pages to follow you shall see how the challenges of change, conflicts and complacency make us review our strategy…When the future is asking us new questions, we must change our answers.
This book will help you in revisiting your conscience to see what renovations it requires to cope up with the changed set of surroundings
Get ready for a roller coaster ride of emotions, get involved with characters and feel their joy and pain. Remember it is in their struggle, you will find your answers.
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We welcome learning but only in the predetermined colonies of our mental township...........Absolutely right sir.
ReplyDeleteबहुत भारी विषय है वर्मा साहब। हम सभी अन्तरात्मा की आवाज सुनना तो चाहते हैं किन्तु समझना नहीं। जैसे कि हम अच्छी बातें बोलना तो चाहते हैं किन्तु पालन नहीं।
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ReplyDeleteour conscience is like the man who
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blanket of compassion is and
whenever heart or even mind agitates
against it one curbs his conscience with the mutual consent of his comfort zone!!!
True and well said....
ReplyDeleteConsciousness is the collective thoughts and feelings, of an individual or of an aggregate of people , it is the state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings. In Vedic etc Hindu religion the awareness of Consciousness is mystical , it is the origin of everything - independent ! This Consciousness being ever present has continuity .
ReplyDeleteThe concept of of the continuity of consciousness is in religion . In the Vedic system of religion which loosely defines Hinduism , Consciousness is intricately equated with the concept of Soul . It has continuity . The process is that of death and rebirth or reincarnation .
Conscience is personal , it is a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour. It is knowledge of self, especially when it comes through the person's morals, or it's feelings about right or wrong. It is highly subjective - it is highly variable !
Morality is primarily a middle class concept . You move above the middle class or go below the middle class , a distinct loosening of moral ie religious bondage is found .
The middle class has got a vested interest in maintaining the status quo . It doesn't want entrenched values to change because change entails the unknown and pain . Every religion codifies this universal middle-class morality into religion and wants to safeguards it .
Desire arises from the senses . This is common to all classes , whether the middle-class , the morality creator , or the others . It is only the religious middle class which attaches guilt with desire . The rest don't have any such inhibitions .
Herbert Marcuse , in 'One Dimensional Man' 1962 , says that the concept of “one-dimensional man” asserts that there are other dimensions of human existence in addition to the present one and that these have been eliminated. He speaks of a "one-dimensional" universe of thought and behaviour, in which aptitude and ability for critical thought and oppositional behaviour wither away.
There is also a psychological aspect here. He refers to this as ‘repressive desublimation’.
Sublimation is a psychoanalytic concept which refers to a defence-mechanism used to deal with a desire which has been repressed, and so is unconscious. Often, it resurfaces in apparently ‘higher’ forms, providing a basis for cultural creativity. Sublimation of the libido creates art . Sublimation of the ego gives Moksha .
For Marcuse, such repression can also affect political desires: the desire for liberation which cannot find conscious form .
Marcuse argues that the peculiarly contemporary process of satisfying particular desires in consumer society through systemically recognised means leads to the elimination of sublimation , desires are ‘desublimated’, they can find social expression, but only in a repressive way which eliminates what is in the particular demand more than itself, the broader aspiration for liberation .
I wonder if the three men of Chandra Shekhar Varma's new book represent three classes of society and are multi dimensional ?