Man is Poly-psychic

Man is Poly-psychic

Man is poly-psychic. His psyche keeps on changing. We often find it difficult to understand why the same person behaves in a different manner at different times. In the morning a person is peaceful and happy and at night the same person is found to be angry and violent. If we observe a person we shall find that during one single day his behavior keeps changing as if we are observing different people. And in fact we are actually observing different people because man is fragmented and in each response a different fragment comes into play and each time a new person surfaces. This fragmentation is not only in the conscious mind but is steeped deep into the subconscious and unconscious as well. There are many-many layers of such fragments going deep within. Our subconscious is a store house, it records even those things around us that we are not aware of consciously and from time to time it gives its indications in its own interpretations as dreams or visions that lie deep into the subconscious, and unconscious. And that it is only very-very deep that you find them merge into each other.

The caste system that we come across today in its distorted form was actually designed observing the various fragments in the mind. They found four types of psyche and so they came out with four castes of people i.e. Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. Now you find multiple psyche in man.

Today the human mind is changing at a fast pace. Earlier also the change was there but very slow. It would take centuries to change the human mind and so the man was more or less predictable. So traditions and systems would continue all life and were carried forward by next generations but today the scene is different. Today every five years or even less the man changes completely. Man is most unpredictable as his fragmented mind is under pressure and undergoes quick changes. In present times the cases of mental disorder are on the increase due to this fragmentation and pressure on the mind.  One out of every three or may be everyone goes through psychological imbalance for at least a month every year.

It has often been said that listen to your inner mind and you shall find a way. Earlier it used to work but not now. For if you go within there also you find the fragments, therefore what you get from within is again deceptive. Even the cosmic mind has become polluted and that too creates great pressure. Today’s man is living in great delusion and deep deception. What he considers to be his inner mind may not be his. If he is not aware anything might surface from there that could be just the fragments and pollution coming from cosmic mind and he takes it to be himself. Therefore the guidance from within is also not dependable and could be hazardous. This poly psychic state therefore becomes all the more dangerous.

Even in meditation the actual guidance is not found. Modern day meditation has also undergone great change; it is not based on inner guidance because you cannot depend on it. So today’s meditation has now become presence based.

Man has to be very alert and aware or else he will be dragged into this poly-psyche trap and will get destroyed. In order to get freedom from this polypsychic state man has to begin observing this change in him carefully and stop his identifications with it. Gradually he shall discover that there is a balanced, organized and powerful system of consciousness at the centre of all this turbulence around and that is his being and not what he had earlier taken himself to be.