We work under presumptions of
knowing other persons in our contacts, but individuality of each of us is too
complex to be understood by anybody else. If mutual knowing of two persons were
possible, there would remain no possibility of misunderstanding between them.
Since we often notice misunderstandings and disputes among persons familiar to
each other, we may safely infer that the two persons were not knowing each
other. Not only that, even most of the persons fail in knowing themselves that
is why they take wrong decisions about matters fully under their own control.
Most of the sicknesses among humanity are results of this misunderstanding of
the self.
Dimensions of an Individual
A person's existence gets expressive
in three dimensions - physical, mental and intellectual through the three
organs body, mind and brain, respectively. A living body is a passive organic
system having many subsystems interwoven and supportive of each other
functionally. It functions under partial control of the mind, and the body and
the mind combination functions under overall control of the brain. Thus, the
brain is the supreme commander of an individual.
From practical experiences, we know
that even supreme commanders fail in exercising full control over their domains
with the result that elements of domains become undisciplined and even revolt
occasionally against their supreme commanders. Similar is the situation with
the command line of the body, mind and brain.
Reason for Indiscipline
Like the practical life incidences, the
command line fails for control of the supreme commander being indirect with a
hierarchy of mediators in between the ultimate domain and the supreme
commander. In case of an individual, the mind is the mediator between the body
and the brain which plays its own tricks in between to gain more authority over
the body. Tricks of the mind are termed as wisdom of the individual, which gets
played often in conflict with the intellect of the person.
Wisdom and Intellect Conflict
Wisdom of an individual is applied
with sole purpose of getting things done for the body in accordance of her
wishes which may not be appropriate always for the negative human traits
raising their heads through the body. All crimes by humans are committed for
these negative traits with full support of the individual's mind and justified
by the wisdom of the self. For this reason, each criminal tries to justify
his/her committed crime. Wisdom doesn't have analytical power but is merely
empowered to get the desired results by hook or crook.
On the contrary, the intellect,
function of the brain, with its faculties of memorizing studied and
experiential information, logical reasoning, and imaginative extrapolation of
information through application of logic is capable of judging right from wrong,
if properly applied to a problem. But for the complexity of body and mind
functions, it is impossible for the intellect to keep watch on everything under
its overall command. It relies on the wisdom standing in between with the
instruction of referring any matter to it whenever needed. Another reason for
the limitation of the intellect is its being mono-tasking, while a multitude of
processes keep ongoing every moment in the body of an individual. So, relying
on wisdom is a compulsion of the intellect.
The Societal Scenario
For the reason explained above, an
individual can truly know another individual through application of one's
intellect only. Since, the intellect remains burdened with a huge workload all
the time, the wisdom is empowered to know the person which plays its tricks for
own vested interests. In the process, the other person is not understood well
but presumed to be understood. Since the matter is not referred to the brain by
the mind under the presumption, the brain doesn't get involved in the matter
leaving it to the mind.
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