Emotion and Truth – Some Experiments
(Excerpts from book “Cure without Medicine”)
1. ‘Inter-relation between emotions and truth’.
We have so far
brought about the clear-cut causal relationship between emotions and disease.
This discussion so far, leads us straight to the question of the ‘inter-relation
between emotions and truth’. While the
physiological relationship is established, one has only to recall how the pulse
rate of any person varies on every occasion he is under emotional duress
(forcible control).
2. Emotions effect keep individual away from Truth
We
now proceed to establish an equally important proposition. During the time an individual is under emotional stress, he is also
away from truth knowingly or otherwise. Everyone knows in his mind
(consciousness) ‘what is truth’.
Using an analogy (within its limits), we may imagine that the psychic energy an
individual possesses has (as if) two components. (a) Truth and (b) Untruth –
This is the form of emotions. It is enough to assert that when we speak the
truth, emotional balance maintains itself completely (to a relative extent).
Conversely, when the emotional balance is lost (i.e. one particular emotion or
group of emotions prevails upon the mind) then, it is likely that mind is
guided by some untruth (to a relative extent).
(Note
– A detailed analysis on the above point
appears in the volumes of the New Way Series).
3. Illustration w.r.t. one kind of emotion (Affection)
As
true with any emotion, ‘affection’ itself
incorporates untruths and partiality.
How? Let us see.
3.1 Consider an
everyday occasion in life – your son has,
for no justifiable reason whatsoever, hit your neighbor son. What would be your
reaction? It will totally depend upon your own individual and unique
personality. But it may belong to any one of the following three categories.
You insist on
siding with your son, knowing fully well that you are practicing untruth by
being unjust. For justifying (the behavior of) your son, you invent false
excuses.
You realize
your son is in the wrong and you resort to complete silence.
You flare up
into uncontrollable anger and inflict punishment on your son.
3.2
Untruth and Pulse Variation (PV) go together.
Under
whichever of these three categories, your actual action falls, it will result
in your (own) pulse variation (PV).
Untruth
(working against consciousness) and pulse variation go together.
3.3
(i) In case of reaction as at ‘A’,
the untruth is so obvious that no further explanation is necessary.
(ii) In case of ‘B’
above also ‘behavior of untruth’
prevails because of following considerations.
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The outcome of timidity leads as much to silence as bold and
just acceptance of truth. On this occasion the possibility of timidity exists.
Consequently, the silence cannot be considered as ‘Love
of truth’.
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The check of PV will confirm the ‘untruth’
in suppressing the emotions (and remain silent).
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Consider a different situation where two strangers are in
quarrel. Here your reaction of silence would be different from the ‘quality
of silence’ in the first illustration.
(If your son’s
result of important exam is due, you may be silent but still highly concerned.
In case of the result of the son of a stranger you may be silent and
unconcerned). P.V. check or other such checks at body level could verify this
fact).
(iii) In case
of alternative ‘C’ also the
emotional disturbance (P.V.) check can ensure the behavior intention –
If it was a quarrel between two strangers boys, you would not have bitten any
one of the boys. You bit the boy, for you love him and want him to be good
behaved.
Another way of
illustration is – If your son scores good marks in exam
you will give him prize. But if the same score comes to your neighbor’s
son, you would not consider to give him a prize, same as you might have given
to your son on such occasions. Essentially the primary question all along
remains the same. Whether you are, or you are not partial to your son in the
expression of all reactions? This partiality is nothing short of untruth.
One
can understand your beating the boy (for wrong deed) but not your anger or P.V.
3.4 Have you
conquered the emotions? A Criteria.
If
none of the above mentioned three alternatives come into play in your case, we
have to concede that you have conquered the emotion of ‘affection’.
Now in your case search in that direction of other emotions needs to be
undertaken.
3.5
Readers may ask – Based upon the above analysis, one of
the main question of readers undoubtedly be – Is it then
your contention that we should not love our love children?
3.6 Answer –
(i) We shall consider what measures are available to affectionate parents to
mitigate (moderate) the consequences of emotional expressiveness and how we can
put them into practice.
(ii)
The theoretical answer could be as follows:
Neither I
(S.V.) nor for that matter anyone else in the world (howsoever great or
learned, pious he may be) can possibly help out any body violating the Laws of
Nature. Our duty is to point out to you what the true nature of these laws is.
The Laws of Nature are absolute and remain immutable (permanent). If somebody
calls it ‘absurd’ because of
somebody finds it inconvenient, still they are applicable to everybody.
(v) One has to
first accept truth as an objective to be practiced and not merely an idea to be
worshiped from a safe distance. Once this is done, the devotee of truth,
himself understands how to resolve the knotty problems in the life in a way
suitable to his own personality and yet remaining undisturbed (calm). This is a
journey of thousand miles but it starts with the first step of resolution (to
follow the truth).
3.
Answer 2
Our second
answer is as accurate as any scientific answer can possible be. No researcher can find a theory which is
suitable for needs of all individuals. His job is to put forward right thought,
scientifically correct. This has been done so far. Each one has to adjust
himself to a natural phenomenon. Nature and Nature’s
Laws are meant to be obeyed. Therefore, to avoid disease, protect yourself from
emotion and for cure of disease, make use of truth alone as medium of cure.
4. Our premise shows the relation between truth, emotion and disease.
The unquestionable link
which exists between emotions and disease is created by man and man alone. This
conclusion is in keeping with the laws of science particularly the laws of
causality.
The
details of the intricate working of the speed, ratio and proportion between
emotion on one hand and disease on the other in relation to specific individual
would of course vary, even vary vastly from person to person. This cannot come
at all under any standard analysis.
5. Our premise, our plea and our demand as humble servant of truth fulfills the demand of science.
No religious leader has even denounced truth. Truth For
our purpose is, “Individual expression of subjectively
known objective fact recorded with detached mind”.
6. Summary
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We located emotion as an immediate cause of disease in
scientific terms.
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What is the way out to avoid this abuse of emotions?
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Obviously a non-emotional state of mind.
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Which in simple
words, mean a ‘truth-patterned’ behavior.
Nullity (Being
nothing) or balancing of Emotions
1. Once the theory so far is understood and
accepted, what the reader would be interested is to know the guidance ahead to
arrive at the cherished goal. The readers would enquire what measures are
proper and why should they be utilized for the balancing of emotions?
To understand
the nature of the problem is very much essential for arriving at the solution.
This process (of understanding) will lead a person to reduce all his emotions
to nullify (to negligible intensity). One cannot get rid of effect of emotions
but can minimize to the extent possible. That is the highest state a man can
achieve.
2.
Preceding this state, the earlier stage is the equalization of emotions one can
try to create. In effect it will almost mean nullity.
Plan
of action (Personal adjustments necessary / step by step progress possible)
If the desired
goal is ‘balancing of emotions’,
it does allow the play of same emotions at the intermediate level. But for
this, good amount of efforts are needed and this level is reached at an
advanced stage.
Once
this stage is reached (i.e. ‘balancing of
emotions’), then what should be the next aim for
a person?
Following are
the steps we advise for the use of the readers. Of course, it is most essential
(every person being unique), that personal adjustments may be required. Subject
to this condition, the plan suggested should work well (i.e. within the action
plan, some personal tuning may be required).
3.
Plan of action step by step (subject to personal adjustments)
3.1
Coincidence cure and Realization Relief
First step is
to fully accept the fundamental process indicated so far in relation to disease
(i.e. concept of recipropathy). That itself, coincides with many cures as has
been experienced in practice. Such phenomenon is termed as ‘coincidence
cure’.
How this
happens? The discomfort about the abnormalities goes as complaints against
discomfort vanish. Till you continue to make a complaint, your acceptance of
the law (of recipropathy) is superficial (and not from full heart). Life and
science both are full of such riddles. The surrender of the complaint must be
genuine and not for asking (superficial).
3.2
You should ‘mean’ what you ‘say’
Acceptance of
your wrongs and adherence to the truth is not a mechanical activity. Many so
called religious people have only superficial morality and their prayers are
without full belief (devotion). They don’t pray when
everything is good and normal and remember God only when the trouble arrives.
People earn a
lot (by any means) and give a small part of the money as donation to temples.
Most of such donations are meant as bribes to the Almighty Nature for some sin.
The sin of which the sinner may be conscious or not, but such a sin cannot be
excused without deep sufferings. Or the donations are from the donors who are
aware that the money earned is from ‘unfair’
means. Their contention of such donations is to request God to ‘free
them from the sins’. This is not devotion but perfect
self-deception! Such actions and notions obviously challenge the greatness of
the God. The God is considered by the devotee as the highest power. That power
cannot be bribed by your petty donations. (We often observe that many people
who practiced prayer all their lives and also regularly donated to charities
who should never have suffered, in reality they most certainly suffer bodily).
Nothing
to say against donations and prayers
We
disclaim at once the possible wrong interpretation. We only criticize the
prayer or donations with wrong intentions. We have nothing to say against
donations and prayers practiced with mind truly detached.
Second
important step for the relief
The
second most important step in the process of cure is the genuine acceptance of
the responsibility of wrongs (mistakes, wrong deeds, sins, etc.) committed by
ourselves.
3.3 If it is
not possible for you to unload the burden of your untruths by confessing them
to another (person), the least you can do is to write them down. You should
list one and all without a single exception. You need not necessarily show them
to anyone till you conquer your mind. Usually untruths are many and varied, so
at least write down the more glaring and burdensome from amongst your wrongs.
3.4
If you truly wish to get cured, then plan your life for the process of cure to
commence in right direction. You cannot escape from the past, you have to
accept it. The past is a fact and its consequences are inescapable. But the future belongs to those who prepare
for it.
By writing and
realizing own earlier wrongs, you enter a new phase of your life. You accept
with conviction that what is within your control certainly is not to add to
these wrongs and prolong the existing list (i.e. avoid wrongs in the future).
So if preparation of the list does not bring cure, it will keep you away from
future mistakes. But there are a number of cases, where amazing cure results
are observed merely by preparation of the list.
So here we come
to a stage where you plan your life in such a way that, so far future is
concerned, you will not speak untruth. For instance, you may vow (swear,
commit) that for the coming ten years, the only untruths you will ever utter
will be those for remaining consistent with your stand with respect to past
wrongs. This is because you still lack the strength to contradict yourself. In
fact, there is nothing wrong, if you admit all truths immediately.
3.5
But some patients find this immediate self-curing process far too difficult to
put into practice at once such patients can plan their future on the lines
suggested below. The hypothetical stages of the process are –
A)
Full Realization
B)
Acceptance of Untruths. Writing down the glaring and major
amongst them, for self-use only.
C)
Any (hereafter) untruth spoken to be strictly in relation to
the past only. For convenience for a period of say, ten years and the proper
observation of the following during the period.
D)
No new major untruths to be spoken, say after one year.
E)
Minor untruths for three years only.
F)
No fresh untruths after five years.
G)
No untruth in future in any case, after seven year.
H)
No untruth in relation to the past, present or future after
ten years.
3.6
This theoretical accurate recommendation cannot be practiced by all. So, in
practice, continue medicines [with my (S.V.) suggestions].
3.7
During these ten years the patient should spend some money consistent with his
means as well as his responsibility in propagating this truth.
In
Manashakti, hundreds of seekers have come together forming 'super social
family'. They contribute 6.25 % of income and spend it for social good without
calling it a donation. A patient who has come to place true belief in New Way,
however should devote some time to propagate these views, if he is out to help
himself. In short, so far you lived for action, henceforth, you voluntarily
live for reaction. That will defeat the purpose of the disease.
3.8
None can get rid of emotions (say affection) but let your emotion (say
affection) have a new meaning. Here you would impress on your dear ones the
true meaning of life and the way of freedom from disease. Approximately, we can
repay for our emotional excesses in the following manner.
A)
Affection – Convey the
true meaning of happiness and life to your dear ones.
B)
Greed – Spare in the proper spirit a part of
money at least 6 1/4% for the spread of new knowledge.
C)
Sex – Working for new knowledge will
eradicate untrue thoughts about sex. Normal sex is permissible.
D)
Anger – Put in active labor mentally and
physically for one hour a day for giving new knowledge to others. Out of
sixteen occasions, check the anger at least once.
E)
Ego – A frank, open and full admission of
the own errors to all (affected/disturbed) people concerned one by one (such
people who were heart by ego).
F)
Envy – Go and accept your faults (due to
envy) to the people who you felt envy.
Think
this way – So long as you have done no wrong to
others, you have nothing to worry at all about others. On
the other hand, if you have done something wrong, set about correcting it, in
the right direction according to the principles laid down.
The patient
(sufferer) in each and every individual case must, necessarily accept the
responsibility of being himself the cause of the disease. Then ease of mind
will be restored for the patient and that may bring about an 'organic change'
as many as on occasions has actually has.
3.9 While
receiving the actual pain the patient is at acid-test. You have to tell your
mind that every stroke of pain is your real reliever (details in Death of
Disease, another book by S.V.). Any opposition to pain merely aggravates pain.
Once you realize the purpose of pain, you are hardly left with a cause to
oppose it. There is no great difficulty in understanding that pleasure
ultimately gives pain. If we look at life and life activities with open eyes. Once
you are fully accustomed to feel this both on pleasant and unpleasant
occasions, pain will never touch you or if you do have an attack of pain, it
will vanish miraculously.
4.
The position of this new rationale (principle) explained in this book is
unquestionable, undeniable. Additionally, it has relieved person of organic
unbearable pain.
(To
be continued.. )
Vijay
R. Joshi.
