Epilogue: Finality Of Sanity
As we come to the last part of the eBook and begin to end the talk, we once again need to go back to where we started from. The start was with assertion of compassion as the only human attainment that has the seed-utility and finality of fruition in the lives of we all. We therefore shall also end it with the re-assertion of compassion, however this time with greater belief and conviction. This confidence in compassion as the core and critical sanity point emanates because now we have reasons to accept that the very design of Reality in our cosmos, the world we live in and the way our own consciousness accepts it have inbuilt, innate and embedded entropic causalities. Therefore, the only way out to have sanity and install it deep in our lives is to accept the finality of singular and irreplaceable element of personal compassion.
As we have talked earlier, the energy of conscious and logical skepticism must always be our guiding force for evolving and becoming empowered. There is no reason to believe or disbelieve anything as the very energy of skepticism shall always keep both beliefs and disbeliefs evolving and changing shades. The energy of persevered and unstoppable skepticism is our life force to keep growing, evolving and learning. The thing that we always need to keep in mind is that while keeping the energy of skepticism alive and kicking, we always shall be required to remain compassionate. Skepticism cannot be of any utility and worth if it is not aligned with compassion. This is the simple recipe of personal sanity, irrespective of what the world does and which way our milieus lead us. This no doubt shall be toughest as other people and the milieus shall test our resolve and persistence with compassion. Easy it is to give way to passion!
The very purpose of writing this eBook is to bring to deliberation the very crucial and critical idea of compassion at the center-stage of human world and life-living as it has always been compromised at and remains the only hope for successful future of humanity. The very hypothesis this eBook has dwelt upon that sanity is impossibility in collective spaces of human world and life-living and therefore sanity is possible only in personal domain, revolves round the core idea that compassion is deeply and laterally only personal and individualistic. And as compassion is possibility at only personal level, sanity too stands a definitive possibility but only at personal level.
However, what we have talked in this eBook is the idea and notion of compassion, completely different and novel from what populist beliefs accept compassion as. The popular definition of compassion stands it in linearity with pity, sympathy, fellow feeling, tolerance, benevolence, sensitivity etc. What we have proposed is that compassion is not about being caring, accommodative, assimilative, and affectionate. All these are of course the ‘effects’ or expressions of the situation of compassion in someone’s consciousness but compassion is not purely behavioral or actionable. It is far more broad, holistic and over-encompassing.
In this eBook, we have accepted the utility and fruition of Compassion as Higher Consciousness, which can and does see, accept and practice the ‘Holism of Reality’ that is always probabilistic and contextual. Compassion, as we have defined in this eBook is a Cognitive Position of an evolved and empowered Higher Consciousness, which is non-reactive, receptive and contemplative in all life-living situations, being in perpetual, deep and lateral acceptance that Reality is never singular and it is always good, right and healthy to be respectful to all different ‘parts’ of Reality, constituting the Holism of Reality.
As a person internalizes this higher consciousness evolution of acceptance of Holism of Reality, he or she successfully makes compassion his or her first instinct and option-less attitude. The elements of pity, sympathy, fellow feeling, tolerance, benevolence, sensitivity, caring, accommodation, assimilation, and affection, etc shall automatically fall in place. In simple terms, compassion is not a fruit, it is not even a tree; it is rather the soil, which must remain fertile and objectively facilitative. This soil of compassion shall automatically and instinctively grow all trees and all fruits of best utilities and worth. The insanity of collective spaces may rob the fruits and cut the trees but the soil shall always remain there to grow more trees and fruits.
The humble and sincere purpose of writing this eBook is to re-emphasize what the greats of humanity have always reminded us that it may be accepted that different people of this world may have different and even competing goals and purposes but everyone must first have this Compassionate Higher Consciousness. They understood that Reality being contextual and relative, instinctively every person would be competitive and conflicted. Therefore, human world would always remain the theatre of compounding competition and conflict among people. This inevitability would always remain in human world in all times and space as the most powerful and calamitous entropic element, which could kill the sanity of life-living and human world itself. That is why the greats of humanity insisted that there should always be compassion as the evolved higher consciousness of all humans as lasting guarantee that sanity would be preserved.
This could not happen as humanity never ever invested predominantly in compassion, instead diverted all its energies and enterprises on instinct-driven ‘Passion’. Tragically, compassion remained there hanged up on all walls of humanity as ‘poster’ only, presenting a façade to spectrum of passion-driven competitiveness and self-aggrandizement. The worst however began in modern world of 20th century when politics entered as the most influential element of human life-living. Politics of all shades – be it the Left or the Right, played with the divisive sentiments of ‘Identities’ and accentuated the ‘divides’ between people, groups of people and geographical regions.
It is this massive and all-pervading stupidity of populist politics that has infused overdose of passion and killed compassion in contemporary world, where every nation and every identity-driven group within nations have been made to compete brutally against each other. It is the politics of the day that has colluded with economic institutions of nations, captains of industry and big corporate entities to shape the economy in a way that remains in perpetual grip of one crisis or the other. All major global crises – be it actual wars, trade wars, economic crises like recession, human rights violations, extreme inequality of incomes and wealth, governance mismanagement, etc are causalities of stupidities of politics, as it has come to stay in human world in modern times. Is this a hypothesis or a Reality? Definitely open to skepticism!
It is the urgent need of humanity to debate and deliberate those elements in complex modern organized world and life-living, which are proving to be highly entropic, accentuating insanity of the system, instead of mitigating it. Many experts in the field of social sciences believe that one single element that is hugely missing in later half of 20th century and massively absent in 21st century is the ‘Integration’ of humanity. They believe even human knowledge and wisdom of modern times remains scattered and could not ever be integrated and consolidated for common use of humanity.
Not only knowledge, even people and their competing ‘identities’ could not be integrated, within nations and between nations. Globally, this non-integration is blamed on petty politics over ‘nationalism’ and other infinite shades of ‘Identity-Politics’. Almost all political structures and dispensation are to be directly blamed for not only failing to integrate people and nations but also primarily for unleashing such maneuverings that actually disintegrate and delink things.
As we end the eBook, I reiterate that you should not believe what we have deliberated here so far. I humbly invite you to keep your skepticism upfront and enquire yourself about all aspects and only after internalizing Reality, through the compassionate process of Holism, you should lead your life-living choices. My only insistence is on universality of compassion in all your enterprises of skepticism. We are listing points that we have deliberated in the course of this eBook, which is in the form of gist. This shall help in recalling all aspects we have talked about.
Here we go –
- There probably is a larger and more crucial question than ‘Who Am I’ and ‘Why I Am’. This question seems to be, ‘What Reality Is and How It Expresses Itself To Us’. The contemporary knowledge of humanity has no definitive answer to the question but from whatever knowledge we have, and we have reasons to be sure that we are in right track, we can hypothesize that Reality cannot be singular; it shall always remain contextual and relative therefore shall be different to different people. This means – the answer of the question, who am I and why am I shall never be singular too. This is the core causality that shall always be seed-inputting for perpetual tree and fruits of conflict and competitiveness among humans, thus a permanent threat to sanity of humanity.
- This very innate nature of Reality and how it expresses itself in multi-dimensional ways is the singular reason for humanity to accept only one element as ‘Intelligence’ and subjugate all other competing realities as subservient to it. This singular Intelligence is Compassion of Consciousness. It is the only possible panacea of the inevitability of insanity, disorder and chaos in human world and life-living.
- Entropy seems to be the defining character of cosmos and its macrocosmic functionality. Entropy therefore looks like the over-encompassing and predominant destiny of not only humanity but all things in the universe. Everything in this universe is energy and thermodynamic equilibrium seems to be the finality everything is moving towards. Entropy itself is the most creative energy of most cathartic and novel enterprises of human world and life-living. Therefore, most people easily accept that Reality is never good and right, which itself becomes the primary energy of all humans to improve the Reality to the desirable point of Good and Right, which is the benchmark of Idealism. As humanity has had a long journey of ‘improving reality’ and a long series of such enterprises have made Reality far more catastrophic, it seems, contemporary human world has reached a higher stage of entropy and this shall keep compounding, leaving almost negligible possibility of sanity ever being restored. The journey of entropy to finality of mortality is the only inevitability of cosmic construct.
- The contemporary knowledge of humanity points out to the fact that human consciousness is also an evolutionary outcome of entropy expansion. The very primary questions of ‘Who Am I’ and ‘Why Am I’ in most likelihood have answer in the entropic causalities, which evolved and engendered consciousness in humans, thus seeding the sense of ‘I’ or self. Therefore, instinctively and by innate nature, every human being is a reactionary stupid, designed by evolution for short-cut reactionary solutions for basic purpose of survival. Therefore, sanity is not human design, rather it is the reactionary self-survival with the entropic tool of competitiveness and cooperation. Sanity however is evolved higher consciousness goal, for which human brain states have well structured logical and reasoning plexus.
- Contemporary human brain design and its genetic orientations seems like a definite vestiges of the past, which are now obsolete and primary source of compounding entropy in human world and life-living. The current human genetic design and body-brain mechanisms are structures that could have been suitable and oriented for life-living even as close to 5000-10,000 years back. It is now a burden on humanity and requires major changes, for which the brain states have structural arrangements. Human history indicates that this design had come to be questioned by evolved humans in around 3000 years back. The earliest organized and documented human philosophical questions and their attempted answers indicate that the human design had started to stand as major trouble even when humanity had just successfully started to lead an organized and civilized life. In 21st century, this human design is a perfect script for calamities of untold miseries. The sanity no doubt is impossibility with such a design. The new challenges of the changed life-living milieus and this obsolete human body-mind design leave such a huge gap that catastrophic entropies are the only outcome. This needs to change but it is tough.
- This change can be ushered in by the critical element of ‘unlearning’ the old, archetypal and obsolete perspectives, beliefs, attitudes and orientations. It shall not happen automatically as ‘unlearning’ is the functional domain of higher consciousness, not the subconscious mind states. Contemporary milieus do not allow average person the luxury to drop the guard of his or her reactionary subconscious and evolve the higher consciousness. The contemporary benchmarks of success, utility, worth and attainments are so deeply ingrained in subconscious mind states that average person can never dump them for something in exchange, which shall not be approved by the majority. Populism and majority-aping is our instinctive first nature. Unlearning populism in 21st century is toughest task, even when every human is bestowed with a brain with logical and reasoning layers on top and unlearning-agenda is explicitly charted out.
- The primary unlearning for all human beings is his or her sense of being the subject or the protagonist in the theatre of life-living. We need to accept that the real and true subject is the cosmic causalities, not ‘I’ or ‘self’ and everything else, be it the living beings including humans or non-living being are just the objects. Human body-mind is just a poor media for expression and playing out of these causalities. The subconscious mind, which dominates around 98 percent of all human actions and behaviors, is the essential media of causalities. Therefore, essentially, the ‘I’ or self is a slave of cosmic causalities and those in human milieus. However, every human being can free itself from this slavery and become independent to a good extent if he or she evolves his or her higher consciousness, which then enables the ‘I’ or self to keep itself detached and dissociated with the causalities. This is not easy, rather a tough task.
- Higher consciousness is an emergent and evolved media of the body-mind medium itself but is engendered when a person rides on the entropic causalities but reining them with the energy of objective skepticism. Questioning begins by doubting the very validity of the ‘I’ or self and then proceed onto question everything that is part of the subconscious mind package. It is this skepticism energy that unleashes the enterprise of unlearning and paves way for evolution of internalization of synthesized learning. This sets the stage for engendering of higher consciousness. However, in modern contemporary society, culture, polity and economy, questioning is hugely discouraged and even suppressed. Evolution of higher consciousness begins at an age of 12-16, when a growing up child has the innate propensity for skepticism. However, contemporary world society and polity have well-laid out and powerfully galvanized mechanisms in place to kill skepticism and instead install populism and conformism. Globally, it is one of the most prominent concerns of intellectuals that polity and economy are now powerful enough to even decide and execute as what people can and should think and feel. The sinews of control of polity-economy have been rooted deep inside the average human minds. Independent and critical thinking is some ‘weapon’ polity considers as more threatening than nuclear weapons and therefore, even when nuclear weapons disarmament is no more political agenda, disarmament of independent and critical human thinking is on top of the agenda of politics. Therefore, gradual and purposeful disengagement with mainstream polity and economy, as well as rationalized alignment with the twin domains is advisable.
- There is a basic code of wellness, wired deep in our body-mind mechanism. This is also somehow the golden rule of sustenance of sanity in personal life. The singular code of wellness is this wired need of every human being to feel rewarded and relevant. Most people, as is their subconscious design, seek this ‘reward’ from external elements in outside milieus. In contemporary milieus, most people are dependent on society, polity and economy for their sense of reward and relevance. This leads most people to a complex and compounding domain of competitiveness and conflicts with people and identities. This is a major ‘unlearning’ requirement for personal sanity. We have talked earlier as how people take their liberties in the arena of fierce competitiveness of society, polity and economy, where there is overload of demands and short supplies. Already, 5 percent humans have 95 percent incomes and resources of the world. Therefore, for personal sanity, we need to ‘unlearn’ aligning our liberties to external elements and agencies and instead, learn the artistry to seek feeling rewarded and relevant from internal elements and agencies. It takes the higher consciousness to decipher that there is music playing inside our minds, there is dance and rhythm happening inside us, there is a huge talk going on inside our body and mind. They are huge fields of rewards. Then there are non-competitive domains of nature that beckons us. The family is warehouse of rewards. Friends and like-minded peers are less competitive and more compassionate domains of expression of our liberties. Our own body-mind media, its expression inside, and not the social media is an infinite agency of sense of reward-recognition. We need to reorient our personal connect and alignment with ‘self’, society, polity, economy and also religion-spiritualism. Time to ‘unlearn’ the consumption and possession oriented sense of reward and relevance in life and living.
- Probably, one of the most important sanity issues is ‘unlearning’ love in our lives. We all need to ‘unlearn’ love and ‘learn’ compassion. We need to replace this hugely entropic passion of love in our lives with very holistic consciousness of compassion. The contemporary world puts us all in dire need of reorienting our instinctive and populist mind-training of ‘seeking’ to replace it with ‘giving’. It takes higher consciousness to truly decipher the huge spectrum of joys, satisfaction and sense of utmost reward of giving. Seeking is what we all have been trained since childhood, which is at the core of our ‘Liberty’ energy. We drag ourselves into the hell of unending competitiveness and conflicts by prioritizing seeking-oriented liberties. This subconscious self-indulgence with ‘seeking’ makes us passionately follow the dictates of love. In complete contrast, the compassion-oriented ‘giving’ consciousness makes us dump love and attain freedom from entropic causalities of love. Switching over from love to compassion; from ‘seeking’ to ‘giving’ itself can ensure near perfect sanity, system, poise and wellness in personal life-living.
- To conclude, it must be with a very humble appeal. This sincere request is to kindly accept that human body-mind is a hugely powerful media with infinite potentials. The Reality itself is manifested and expressed through body-mind media. These potentials can only be attained when this body-mind media is in optimal state of health and poise. Therefore, the humble request is to accept that the primary enterprise in attaining personal sanity begins with paying optimal care and attention to health and well-being; both physical as well as mental. This is huge challenge in contemporary world. Health is primary and basic element as it readies the body-mind media towards the goal of compassion. It is hugely tough for an unhealthy and ailing man or woman to be truly compassionate. Compassion begins with our own body and mind. There is simply no possession, attainment or reward worth half a penny if health is missing optimality. Be healthy, be fit, be compassionate and let your higher consciousness reward you with most precious of attainments of sanity. All best.
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Accept My Gratitude
Writing something is a daunting task as there is always a lurking apprehension of it not being of utility for some readers. I however feel at ease, because of my faith in magnanimity of readers. I am happily sure; you shall forgive if my efforts could not be up to your expectations. Thank you so much for being with me and allowing me to share with you. Wish you an empowered life; with the prosperity of the consciousness.
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