Wisdom Of Wellness: Perpetuity Of Poise Of Purpose by Santosh Jha - HTML preview

The father, in the above story, is in perfect ‘poise’ of his wellness homeostasis. His wellness is not threatened by his subjective ‘self-image’ of right and wrong. It is his poise, which is so beautifully and magnanimously reflected in his behavior and action. It is only natural that this father is a pop mystic, a hero for the teenage girl and this girl shall grow to be one ‘poised’ person; another pop mystic for sure.

In Hindu religious traditions, it has been said that the body is the perfect media. All attainments of life and life beyond, material or spiritual, has to be through this ‘media’ of body-mind mechanism. Even moksha and nirvana is attainable only through this media. That is why, Hindu traditions emphasize on the ‘first duty’, ‘mool karma’, towards preservation and perpetuation of the sanity and purity of the media – the body-mind mechanism.

The core religious idea is to have a ‘poised media’ and this is ensured when we have a ‘poise’ of all elements of the body-mind realisms. Science calls this ‘poise’ as homeostasis. Spiritualism is a mechanism and process through which, we all attain this poise and ensure the preservation and perpetuation of the purity and sanity of the media of body-mind mechanism. That is why, a spiritualist shall work towards it.

From the day we are born, we are muffled by love, in one form or other. Our preparedness starts from that day. Initially, it is the responsibility of parents and family but later, we ourselves have to learn and unlearn our ways towards this ‘poise’ of our larger wellness homeostasis. Love and absolute intimacy, as an idea, deeply associated with the entity of homeostasis, is hugely beautiful and highly useful tool for a true spiritualist. Love is a mystical expression of the ‘sense of larger wellness’, which is a cardinal and potent condition for homeostasis.

What mind receives and expresses are through neurochemical and neuroelectrical processes. However, these processes are intangible and our conscious mind never is able to see or perceive them. It is when, these processes are translated in behavior and action then we understand and accept it. The factors, which affect the homeostasis are ‘intangible affectors’ of human emotions. The above-mentioned values work as magic for the homeostasis process as it shields us from negative and conflicting effects.

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The Questions Of Spiritualism

There are questions of life and living. Everyone has them. They have been there since thousands of years. Since the time, these questions came into existence, the answers also started to take shape. The old wisdom attempted answers to these questions and many of us have good faith that the answers provided by old wisdoms of religion, philosophy and spiritualism are right and probably the only answers. However, for many, they are not satisfactory answers and the questions remain valid and in search of ‘right’ answers.

The core questions are:

Why humanity everywhere is suffering and in conflict and confusion?

Why is there so much fear and despair?

What is the singular road to internal and external peace and harmony?

What happens after death; is rebirth true?

What is the meaning and purpose of life?

Did God create us and for what?

What is the mechanism of God?

What is the idealism of life?

What is true wisdom and why it eludes humanity?

The new spiritual you has a tough task in hand. You want new answers and in fact, it is only natural, as we all are living in a new world, where realisms have a different perspective, in sync with modern scientific logic. The old wisdom, somehow, does not seem to be galvanized to update their answers in the light of the new awareness and knowledge of humanity.

However, the new spiritualist in us has to do more than just seeking answers. We all have to revisit and reassess the questions first. The new spiritualist works on the premise of objective and measurable logic, a common sense, which has to be in perfect symmetry with modern knowledge of humanity. That is why; even the age-old questions need to be revisited, reframed and even reassigned and realigned in a secular and temporal perspective.

First thing first – the new spiritualist has to be sure as what he or she accepts as the definition, nature and scope of spiritualism in modern contemporary worldview. Once we assign and align the modernist and contemporary structures and functions of the modern spiritualism, which the pop mystic shall accept as core creed of spiritualism, we have better and rationally objective understanding of the genesis of questions and the DNA of the answers.

Spiritualism in modern contemporary context needs to be understood by some contemporary example and for that let us use the metaphor of a computer. We all operate the computer; even kids do it smartly, some even better than adults! However, only a miniscule percentage of us know exactly how the computer is made and what scientific mechanisms and processes make it work. Most of us are operative geniuses of computer, successfully doing all functions that a computer is designed for. However, when someone asks us about how the computer does this function or than one, we are in trouble answering.

Suppose, a kid asks his mother as how to save a file on the computer; the happy mom shall tell the kid, “oh so simple, press the Control and S keys of the keyboard and it is done!” The kid is not satisfied, inquisitive best as the they are; the kid asks further, “tell me why pressing these keys saves this file” and we are in trouble. Happy we all are to see images on the screen of the computer. However, if we are asked how these pictures from a camera got into the screen of the computer, we have trouble.

The reason is, we do not know the scientific or technological details of the working mechanisms and processes of the computer. We actually do not have the need as we all have mastered the operative functions and it is enough to make full potential use of the computer. Kids run the android operative system on hand devices and nobody has to bother about the technological details of the jelly beans and ginger breads!

The trouble starts when questions are generated for answers, which pertain to finer details of the working system of a realism, the operative masters of which we happily are. So, when a kid shall ask, how the pictures sneak into the screens of your computer, we shall device ‘smart answers’ but they shall never be ‘true answers’, as we do not know the system functioning.

Someone shall answer, “there are internal wires and pictures sneak through them”. Someone shall answer, “the computer has a hidden eye, which can see things and then reproduce”. Still, another shall say, “ask your mother, she has this irritating habit of sneaking things into places all over.” Someone may say, “you shall know, when you grow up, not now”.

Spiritualism is not only the operative knowledge of the system called life and living; it is much beyond that. We have a mechanism, the life around us has a mechanism and the cosmic order has a mechanism and process. Usually, we do not have the express need to be in complete knowledge of the entire mechanism of the ‘computer of life and living’. Most of us do quite well without it. However, it has to be accepted with humility and innocence that questions shall always emanate, wherever there is an intricate and multidimensional mechanism and process. Questions are embedded in the mechanism. We may do without it and still do reasonably well is another thing. Still, questions cannot be wished away.

The humble assertion is; we all are designed to have excellence, not just bare survival. Excellence is systemic in the mechanism and process of all designs. This excellence is a must for ‘optimizing operative efficiency’. Spiritualism is an intangible, innate, instinctive, embedded and essential consciousness of overall excellence of life and living. Spiritualism is your mind-positioning for this avowed excellence of life and living.

We all can operate a computer but those with overall knowledge of the technological mechanism and process of the digital computing and artificial intelligence shall have the overall excellence in using the computer to its best possible potential. Naturally, as the computer is designed for enhancing and catalyzing the excellence of the operator, those in complete knowledge of the design and its mechanism-process shall be better positioned to land at the potential excellence.

Moreover, one does not have to be a computer engineer to understand the mechanism-process of the design of a computer. We just have to expand the limits of our natural inquisitiveness to get to the core principle of digital computing and artificial intelligence. All sciences and technology, in fact all wisdoms and knowledge have a ‘simple model’ to get to its core system. Religion provided its own model, using simple ‘metaphors’ from nature around us. Science does it by using analogies with other simpler models. The same complex scientific theory is taught in class six, which scientists learn for a lifetime, in their labs. We all have the mind-mechanism to understand everything in simpler and less complex models. Spiritualism is also about assimilating a simpler and easily amenable model of the complex cosmic system and life and living mechanisms. Our own body-mind homeostasis is one simple model to understand the colossal and complex mechanism of cosmic poise.

It also needs to be talked here that spiritualism has no answers of its own. A computer engineer shall never give you an answer of his or her own. Being an engineer, being a spiritualist, does not qualify us to ‘create’ answers. It only enables us to develop and assimilate a simpler and understandable model of an answer already embedded in a system. How a computer works has a singular and objectively replicable answer. The answers cannot change for you or me even when you and me become a computer engineer. It just extends us an endowment, an ability to understand the already present answers.

The cosmic realism, the life and living mechanism and processes already have answers. The answers are as real, ingrained, systemic, objective and replicable as are the questions. The realism and mechanism itself engenders all questions and all answers. Humanity has just been able to create a knowledge and wisdom, which helps us unravel and understand the questions and their answers already there.

Spiritualism has no answers of questions of life-living and cosmic realism. This is simply because; it has no questions of its own. Both questions and answers pertain to realisms, which have been there billions of years before spiritualism or humanity came into being. Spiritualism, however remains and shall always be the ‘facility and wisdom’ to unravel and assimilate the answers as well as the questions in personalized models, a subjective metaphor of an objective realism, which were, are and shall always be.

Now, the big issue at hand for the new spiritual you is what is the nature, scope and structure of this spiritualism, which a modern contemporary person can have to optimize his potentials as a human and also be able to unravel the already available key answers of life and living questions. We talk about all this now.

The computer analogy we used for understanding spiritualism has its own limitations. Cosmic system, in its vastness and multidimensionality of life and living cannot be akin to a simple computer. The trouble starts from here.

The cosmic system and the life-living realisms are billions of years old and even scientists believe, they are so vast and intricate that human mind is insufficient to understand them fully ever. Moreover, there is one fact that has to be taken in mind.

It is eccentrically fascinating, extremely bizarre, stupidly enjoyable yet, probably the most critical and grim fact of humanity and its living experiences on this planet. We all are into something, which has no parallel in the history of living being, probably anywhere in the universe!

We had questions, which originated few thousands of years back for we humans but the questions actually had their origins billions of years back. From about ten thousand years, we humans started attempting their answers. Answers first came with religion, then with philosophy and finally, early science stepped in.

Now, the modern humans have the wherewithal of modern science and technology to understand all transcendental questions in a new light and present novel set of answers. Still, the troubles are the same. Even thousands years back, the data which were available for testing the validity of facts and separate fiction from objective fact were very negligible as all facts were billions or millions of years old, randomly and erratically available.

It is a strange situation. Incidents happened billions and millions of years back but the consciousness and wisdom of humanity to be able to fathom all these happened merely a few thousands of years back. The universe came into being 14 billion years back and humans happened 4 million years back. There is a popular belief that the evolutionary model of life and living, which science presents as alternative to ‘God’s Design’, has so many missing links. The popular big-bang theory of creation of universe and the contemporary quantum mechanism are considered to have so much elements of philosophical imagery and postulations that it is even tough for scientists to present a simpler and amenable model for understanding of an average person. Many believe, such science is a very complex fictionalism of factual realisms. The debate is never ending.

A simpler interpretation is; as humans developed the subjective consciousness – the feeling of ‘me’ and ‘self’; something unique and exclusively available to human species only, humans could formulate questions, which had their origin way back in time. Modern humans today can hardly visualize the distant past even in its best of consciousness as the links, the requisite factual data to all these incidents are missing and can never ever be recreated and re-imaged to perfection either in human mind or in a human-created lab. It is a sad thing to say but the fact looks like; the very distant past is beyond replication in its finest details.

It only seems natural that despite best of scientific advances today and more finesse coming in coming decades, humanity probably cannot find the actual, objective, singular and the right answers. We do not have the requisite data now and may not ever have, even if we have the consciousness and logistics.

Then, the billion-dollar question is, are the answers to all these questions really important and necessary for successful life and living of humanity in coming centuries? Do we really need these answers for creating a world where all humans have a peaceful, prosperous and enjoyable life and which next generations could inherit from us?

No doubt, if we have a singular answer for all these questions of humanity, we naturally shall be better off. But, as it is apparent that this is just an idealism which shall always remain confined to the realm of ‘should’ and ‘prescriptions’, we all need to move ahead for something practically possible which could be actually achieved, despite the above limitations of human consciousness and mind.

The idea is, it shall take another hundreds of years before, science could evolve itself to such a capability where it creates a singular, objective and integrative platform for assimilation of all human wisdom so far to explain all realism, be it physical, cognitive consciousness or pre-cognitive and non-physical consciousness. On the other hand, it may never happen. The later has larger probability!

So, can it happen that humanity drops these contentious and conflicting issues for a while and concentrate on building an integrative, holistic and globally workable and acceptable paradigm, which could be the singular basis of developing a worldview that works commonly for all humans? Accepted, any procrastination is not a welcome thing to do. Especially; when the issue at hand; is of such paramount importance to larger humanity! Still, procrastination is better than confused and chaotic continuity.

A simple and innocent query is; can we drop the ‘larger questions’ of life and living for a while to focus on so-called ‘smaller questions’ of humanity? The smaller yet very crucial issues at hand are world peace, sustainable development, an alternative global economy based on larger wellness of humanity rather than pure profit, a compassionate framework for family and social living based on collective wellness rather than individualistic instant self-gratification, etc.

As it seems, humanity has been very well ensconced and in perpetual pursuit of the larger questions and it is actually the smaller questions mentioned above that are being procrastinated for ages. If compared, we can see that humanity has made larger advancement in understanding and even answering the larger questions but has made very little headway in settling the smaller questions. Many of these issues have rather regressed in the march of civilization and we all are easy victims of this procrastination and regression. 

Well, it looks like another presupposition for ‘shoulds’ and idealistic ‘prescriptions’ but then, is there a better option? It is as open to unending debate as anything is. People may say that crucial and cardinal questions, such as what is ‘consciousness’, what is actual realism, what is life and how things came to be, etc must first be truly answered. Only then there could be a basis for a singular paradigm for a singular worldview, which then could be true basis for building a new and lasting worldview for a rational and lasting world order.

The only rejoinder to these debates is an idea that cardinal questions may never be resolved as the requisite empirical data for this is not available and may never be as they are somewhere billions and millions of years away with so many missing links.

Even if they get resolved in next few hundred years from now, it would take another thousands of years for all humanity to accept them. This is too long a period for all smaller questions of humanity to wait.

It seems only practical that as humanity grapples with larger questions, in the meantime, let us take all smaller questions in all sincerity and urgency as humanity is in such a stage where these questions have put a question mark on the very survival of human species on the earth.

No doubt, we all need our answers right and first but we all actually first need to survive and be rationally empowered to reach up to such a stage in human evolution where we actually remain there to enjoy the answers.

The way our smaller questions have made this world a virtual calamity, it seems improbable that humanity can survive such long till the answers are found and even if it survives that long, will the humanity be in such state of consciousness to even accept and appreciate that?

One may say, it is a Hobson’s choice. Finding answers for smaller questions of humanity are far more challenging and impossible than answering the larger question and no amount of answer of larger question can settle the smaller ones.

Then, what we should do? A section of objective people say, “humans do not become what they think they should or they would but they become what the randomized and probabilistic energy of stupid engineering of evolution thinks humanity should and would”.

However, some great minds of contemporary wisdom appeal, “Let this evolution cease to be as randomized and probabilistic as it had been thus far, let conscious and rational humanity be the new and controlled energy of a new evolution which is well directed and well planned”. Is that another presupposition for ‘shoulds’ and idealistic ‘prescriptions’? You decide!

The new spiritualist in you has to decide. The pop mystic should sit and think what is his or her agenda for spiritualism – chasing answers of those questions, which may never be appropriately answered or focus more on those smaller questions, which we not only understand well, but also have answers, which can be singular and highly beneficial for all of us.

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Create Your Own Model Of Spiritualism

The new spiritual you has absolute freedom to formulate new questions for him or her. The old popular questions too shall have to be repositioned, redesigned and realigned. All questions must lead to answers, which ensures larger wellness and excellence of ‘self’, not as some individualistic, self-indulgent and self-gratifying entity, rather as an essential part of the larger global society. The collective wellness and excellence is one singular condition, which ensures wellness and excellence of all individuals.

The new spiritual you understands the basic mechanism of life-living realisms. Thousands of years back, religion and philosophy also provided us models and metaphors to understand the cosmic model as well as life-living realisms. However, they regressed to doubtful utility as like all good ideals, they too became victim to human ingenuity and conveniences. Moreover, they could not update their models with changing times.

Science also provides models but ideal it is for the new spiritual you to opt a holistic, assimilative and integrative model, which accepts and combines all good and cherished ideals and models of all wisdoms – old or new. This shall be an ideal contemporary positioning for the pop mystic.

This new spiritualism should work out towards larger wellness of individual, society as well as larger worldview. Moreover, it should endow us with a thought-behavior-action platform, which optimizes all processes of humanity and this world, enabling our potentials to reach a new high in peaceful coexistence.

Let us translate this holistic-assimilative-integrative model of new spiritualism in six core domains of life and living – Self, Family, Work, Society, World and Beyond Life. Each one of us can have our own subjective and personalized model of spiritualism. However, these models must ideally conform to and be in perfect symmetry with the holistic-assimilative-integrative model of new spiritualism, which is in sync with contemporary common sense.

When you design and evolve your own personalized and subjective spiritualism model, the core ideas of overall wellness and excellence must be retained and adhered to. The choices and priorities can be subjective and all the operative ideas, thoughts, behaviors and action can be designed suiting to personal requirements. However, the following notions must be part of any model we create: -

1.      The core principle must always be holism, assimilation and integration of all wisdoms and knowledge of humanity and never ever reject anything out-rightly. There is always some utility in even the seemingly worst of futility. Always remember, one does not necessarily have to be wrong for another to be right. Coexistence is always better.

2.      We have a mechanism and this body-mind mechanism must always be in perpetuity of poise and overall homeostasis. Your spiritual model must ensure bio-sociological, psychological, emotional, spiritual as well as volitional homeostasis.

3.      The body-mind homeostasis or poise is largely a function of internal emotional stability, poise and positivity. However, internal emotions are deeply affected by elements from our external environment, especially the ambient societal milieu. To minimize external disturbances to internal emotions, one must accept love, absolute intimacy and compassion as core elements of the spiritual model. This necessitates action-behavior benchmarks of nondiscrimination, tolerance and nonaggression, moderation and non-self-gratification as well as perpetuation of pursuits for knowledge and wisdom.

4.      The higher consciousness is the ultimate personality positioning and to attain that, mysticism is a transitional situation. This stage is reached with a receptive-mode consciousness, breaking free from the auto-mode reactive consciousness. The spiritualism model must work out for a life and living schedule, which allows quality leisure time for self and family.

5.      Most importantly; if we see the larger picture and accept facts objectively, with whatever knowledge humanity has so far evolved and understood, we shall have to accept that all life on earth, including humans and its evolution is one huge random and multi-dimensional event-cyclicality. On the other hand, what we humans make out of it and charter our own ways for survival, purpose and excellence is another multi-dimensional cyclicality. Both forces, though inter-dependent only at the core and having some patterns, which can be replicable, still, they remain highly and intricately randomized. The element of unpredictability, inadvertence, accidentality and asymmetricality in both largely sovereign forces of the cosmos only ensures that humanity can never ever remain in perpetuity of singular purpose, peace and order. Especially in contemporary situation, when humanity long before evolved and acquired the criticality of conscious intelligence, which is bound to lead it to ever-growing entropy (degrading randomization) and ultimate extinction in the long run. Finding a purpose and purity of singular pattern or model of culture and virtuosity for global community seems out of question. The mechanism of cosmic realism never ever seems to allow it. It is more impossible now. The wise can only understand that and find its own ‘personalized and subjective peace’. Anyone, who arrives at the higher consciousness of higher objectivity, can clearly unravel this mystery. That is why; spiritualism also needs to be very personalized and subjective. You have the genius in you and you can do it. All best.

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Reverting To God’s ‘Original’ Design

The great scientist and a highly evolved mind, Einstein, once said, ‘we shall require a substantially new manner of thinking, if mankind is to survive’. This new thinking is of course at the center of all modern contemporary endeavors of humanity.

We are fast becoming a very complex living being and the environment, be it physical, economic or societal, is also becoming so complex, making it hugely tough for an average and common human being. Things have turned far more difficult from the time when Einstein said this.

The basic things, which count substantially for the larger wellness of an average human being, are now the core factors responsible for people’s stress, troubles and negativity. The first