Friday, March 5, 2010

THE ORIGINAL SIN continued

This example would amply clarify what we mean by “improper handling”.
Suppose we were to design a virtual self replica or what is popularly known as INTERNET AVATAR. We would make it the way we ourselves really want to be in the real world. Now suppose we engage ourselves the whole day and whole night in making this INTERNET AVATAR (virtual self replica) in attaining perfection for the INTERNET AVATAR and somehow get so lost into it that we start believing the INTERNET AVATAR as our real selves (seems too far fetched but just hang on a little while).
Now when we feel hungry we feed the INTERNET AVATAR with virtual food available in the virtual world, this gives momentary psychological relief due to our extremely strong sense of attachment of identity with this virtual self. But it will never subdue the hunger pangs of our real physical body. So the body again knocks us with hunger pangs. We get surprised because we had just had food (in the virtual world though). We again feed our virtual self in the virtual world (because of our total identification of identity with our virtual self and lack of remembrance of our real physical self) and this time we stuff ourselves to the throat. This time again we obtain some more momentary psychological relief. But soon enough the real physical body throws up severe hunger pangs that twist our intestines and now we start getting frustrated we don’t know what to do, we feel “oh come on I just stuffed myself twice in past one hour how can I still be hungry?, there must be something wrong with me I must see a doctor”. Now the real problem begins, the more we try to find the solution to this problem in the virtual world the more frustrated and depressed we would get because no solution would be forthcoming with lasting results. And our hunger of the real physical body would only keep getting worse.
Though very unrealistic and humorous SHOCKINGLY it is our own TRUE story.
This is what is meant by “improper handling” of SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE. We have lost ourselves in it so much so that it has become our whole identity, our entire life and instead of we using it (SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE ), it (SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE) is using us.
Forgetting our true self our INNATE INTELLIGENCE (/nature/self) and believing ourselves to be mere SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE alone is the ORIGINAL SIN the root of all our troubles, complexities and sufferings.

THE ORIGINAL SIN

As the heading proclaims now we will enter into the domain of understanding “what went wrong and where?”
After expanding our understanding of functioning of society and its direct effect on our own way of functioning, living and conducting our lives we might find SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE implanted within our system to be a distasteful entity an unwelcome guest because of its shrewd, selfish, business like nature infiltrating every nook and corner of our life with or without our knowledge.
But please understand that the SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE is not at fault it is we ourselves who are to blame for this present condition of ours. It is our improper handling that is to be blamed. Desserts are desserts they cannot be had for starters and main course. If taken in such a fashion it will only cause suffocation and nausea. Similarly SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE is also a dessert to be added at the end of the main course of our INNATE INTELLIGENCE. But we have been outrageously abusive with it we have had it for breakfast, lunch, supper and dinner, with tea, coffee and juice for all portions and courses of our existential meal.
That is instead of using social intelligence we are being used by the social intelligence. Let us clarify this statement.
Memory & social etiquette's. Understanding, adoption and living of social customs, traditions, relations and the shining jewel in the crown, language (to help us express ourselves to the outer world, to interact, to communicate and express ourselves) are all the various facets of SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Also the fact that our staying together as a society has allowed each and every one of us to specialize in one particular field and bring out the best from it for the common good and benefit of all since time immemorial and hence has not only aided but acted as a catalyst to our scientific, economic, medical, technological and infrastructural betterment and constant development which was an impossibility for individuals to achieve without the security, food, shelter and resources provided by the society to them.
So we must clearly reaffirm the importance and contribution of society and social intelligence in our lives before we go any further.