Emotions and the Individual
(Excerpts from Chapter 15 of the book Death of
Disease)
1. To recapitulate the conclusions of the previous chapters (i.e. discussion so far in the book Death of Disease).
1.1
Medical practitioners know that their respective pathies
give no answer with regards to fundamental problem of disease, nutrition,
protection. Masters of medicine admit it. Evidence endorses it.
1.2
In practice, the practitioners treat all ailments and
proceed to cure all diseases. May be they really lack knowledge of disease in
its proper perspective, may be they ignore it for personal benefit, or may be
the dominance of ego leads them to act as they do.
1.3
Every pathy contains partial truth to a more or less degree.
Yet the claim of perfection and infallibly in respect of any pathy is obviously
unsustainable.
1.4
Disease cannot be cured unless 'mind' is properly treated. All present
media of treatment, including psychotherapy, commit the common mistake of
'standardizing' their way of analysis of treatment. We must isolate The H.C.F.
(Highest Common Factor) of cause and cure the disease.
(H.C.F. is 'mind related'. Man may change,
basic emotions are the same)
1.5
Joint consideration of body and mind alone leads to correct
diagnosis. But mind controls body. Even the doctors subscribe to the view that
ninety percent of diseases originate from mind (Psycho-somatic disorders)
1.6
However, debatable the nature of mind, for our purpose by
concentrating on 'Visible Expression of Mind', we reach a sufficient good
starting point. Visible expression of mind are 'emotions' primarily six.
1.7
Emotions reign supreme, not for a moment can we remain
conscious without emotions.
1.8
If consciousness evolves primarily from emotions, our
problem reduces to more simple level. Soldier for his 'patriotism' emotion
throw his life in war. Saint Peter sacrificed himself for faith (other examples
in Indian Context are - Sambhaji, Shikh Guru). Thus, the brave don't care of '
body' but value emotions. This is true for a coward also. He flies to save
himself from some imminent danger, his individuality bursts with emotions of
fear and therein he ignores his body. Often the heart of such person stops and
they kill themselves.
Apparently, a height of paradox of
life, that this coward so attached to his body, obviously kills the body itself
by emotion.
2 A superficial analysis would lead to
conclusion that each one kills himself with diametrically opposite emotions.
Man remains under the sway of emotions till a breath of life remains and he
considers his bodily existence altogether inferior.
3. For a human race the outer
appearance of body may change from race to race, location to location in terms
of color, weight, height, face, etc. but the same emotional trend will be
discovered within all prevailing human beings (The mix may vary but basic
emotions are the same). This is the H.C.F.
4. We carry a wrong notion that
education basically changes emotional set up. Even time fails to teach human
race in that sense. The driving emotion of a speculator (in share market) today
is the same - greed - as that of his predecessor who joined the Alaska Gold
root in 1880.
Technical
knowledge apart, space travel of today differs emotionally in no way from
Columbus who fought his way with unimaginable zeal to America.
5. Emotions are primary instincts
whether the individual is a child, or century old, a weakling or a champion;
poor or rich; a primitive or a modern man. Ignorant and rich behave as they do,
because of identical craving of sex, ego, greed, anger, affection and envy.
Wherein
then lie individual differences?
Emphatically
in the difference of proportion of emotions, the nature of constituents remains
the same.
6.
It is easier to treat and cure a man through his emotions than through his
physique.
Medicine are many and they will
continue to come in many numbers as the disease change in nature. The history
of modern medicines reveal that with all the progress in terms of body -
treating - medicines, the diseases are not controlled, nor human life is made
comfortable we can't wait for centuries for the body cure. Till the ideal
modern medicine comes (which has not come so far), we should attempt to treat
emotions, the primary cause of disease.
If disease is to be treated at
individual level, and if emotions have been proved to be a part and parcel of
even conscious person leading him to disease, we better treat emotions.
Certainly, it is better to treat a disease by catching at its root.
7. Dr. Alexis Carrel says -
"Disease is a personal event. It consists of the individual himself. There
are as many different disease as patients".
We endorse this wholeheartedly. Each
individual will differ from the others. This is due to variation of wide extent
of ratio or combination of various emotions which prevail each moment he is
conscious. This play of emotion with each individual at each moment of
conscious life is an unalterable fact.
To quote Dr. Carrel again - "Death
is the price he (man) has to pay for his birth and his personality". The
'personality' undoubtedly manifests itself through emotions.
Humanity
has to learn to conquer emotions for eliminating disease.
(To
be continued…)
Vijay
R. Joshi.
